Os hacemos llegar la siguiente información sobre la Taboo Conference 2016 organizada por el Departamento de traducción y ciencias del lenguaje de la Universitat Pompeu Fabra de Barcelona:
For its 3rd edition, The Taboo Conference series will specifically address the intricacies of taboo and humour/comedy in the broad contexts of language, culture, society, and the media and in its various occurrences from the points of view of production, performance, and perception/reception.
Temática:
- Sex and sexuality (e.g. nudity, bizarre sex)
- Death and dying (e.g. aging, widowhood, funerals and burials, mortal accidents)
- Sickness, disability and deformity
- Scatology (e.g. toilet humour)
- Politics (e.g. political corruption, political incorrectness, prejudice, discrimination, party politics)
- Religions and blasphemy (rituals, prejudice, afterlife)
- Social institutions and cultural values (e.g. drugs and alcohol, law and order, family, education, food and eating habits, gambling, personal image, work ethics, social hypocrisy)
- Money (meanness, greed, theft, exploitation, waste, extravagance, poverty)
- Changing social attitudes towards violence, exploitation and abuse (prostitution, slavery, trafficking, rape, children’s rights)
Envío de abstracts a thetabooconference@gmail.com antes del 15 de enero de 2016 con el asunto «TaCo2016 – proposal».
Cuándo |
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| 20 y 21 de septiembre de 2016 | |
Dónde |
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| Universitat Pompeu Fabra Plaça de la Mercè, 10-12 08002 Barcelona |