Call for papers - ALCS conference 2016 in Dublin

he 11th ALCS Biennial Conference will take place at University College Dublin from 29 June - 1 July 2016. The topic of the conference - held in the centenary year of the Easter Rising in Ireland - will be the narrative of change. How is change represented and narrated and how do these narratives change over time? 

Topics may include:

• Narrating change of cultural practices and dissenting voices
• Narration of social change and the imaginative
• Narrating change and changing narrative in literature and the arts
• Changing relationships between text and image in the pictorial arts
• Changing linguistic norms and status of language varieties
• Translation as a process of change and transformation
• Narrating change emerging from studies of lexis, semantics, pragmatics and syntax 

The organisers invite both individual contributions (20-minute presentations which will be followed by 10 minutes of discussion) and proposals for fully constituted panels. Panel conveners are invited to suggest a 90-minutes themed panel of three speakers. 

We specifically invite postgraduate students and a number of full bursaries are available. The primary criterion for selection will be the quality of the proposal, not its strict connection to the conference theme.

Please submit your proposal in the form of a 300-word abstract by 28 February 2016 via the conference website.