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Identité et Identification / Identity and Identification

Identité et Identification / Identity and Identification

COLLOQUE DES DOCTORANTS DU CENTRE INTERLANGUES – TEXTE, IMAGE, LANGAGE.
Université de Bourgogne, 3-4 octobre 2013.

Les doctorants du Centre Interlangues-TIL organisent un colloque international sur « Identité et Identification » et lancent un appel à communication à l’attention des doctorants en langues, en FLE et en didactique désireux de présenter leurs recherches dans un contexte favorable à l’échange.
Les doctorants intéressés sont invités à soumettre une proposition de 300 mots maximum pour une communication de 20 minutes maximum qui sera suivie d’une séance de questions. Les communications se feront prioritairement en français, mais nous pourrons également accepter des interventions en allemand, anglais, espagnol et italien.
Le colloque se tiendra à l’Université de Bourgogne les 3 et 4 octobre 2013. Les propositions sont à envoyer jusqu’au 15 mars 2013 à colloque.identite.dijon@gmail.com. Une sélection des contributions sera publiée.

L'appel à communication en français est téléchargeable ici dans son intégralité : http://til.u-bourgogne.fr/images/stories/labo/programme/appel%20%20communication%20colloque%20des%20doctorants%20dcembre%202012.pdf

 

Call for proposals : International conference on “Identity and Identification” for PhD students.

3-4 October 2013, University of Burgundy (Dijon, FRANCE).

 

Your proposal should not exceed 300 words. Presentations will last 20 minutes, with an additional 10 minutes for questions. The conference languages are French, English, German, Italian and Spanish.

The proposals must be sent by 15 March, 2013 to: colloque.identite.dijon@gmail.com

The scientific committee will select contributed papers for publication. 

 

IDENTITY AND IDENTIFICATION

Identity is a major paradigm for humanities and literature : constructing itself through integration, opening up to the other as well as to otherness, but also via rejection and negotiation, the concept of identity covers equality, equivalence as well as belonging.

Such a thorough concept however, requires limitations. This is the reason why this seminar will be articulated around the link between identification and identity. The advanced research regarding the concept of identity allows, we believe, such a link. Indeed, in fields such as psychology and psychoanalysis, identification is an essential building process of identity that remains opposed to individualization and resembles the psychological projecting mechanism.

The object of one's study may regard linguistics as well as literature and civilization, where questions of doubles, ideological filiation and intergenerational inheritance are no doubt relevant. In philosophy, identification is also a fundamental notion in the construction of identity since, according to Ricoeur, it is through a process of "reidentifying a human individual as being the same" (Ricoeur, 1990 : 144) that "sameness" is defined.

Identification calls for questions of assimilation and acknowledging : as for the first meaning, it consists in the identification of a thing or a being, that is to say word out its identity; it may also express identity between two words. As for its second meaning, it points to empathy, the process of identifying oneself to someone or something.

Various approaches may be assumed :

- Historical:

The question of identity is at the heart of historical search about concepts such as the nation and the state, in situations as varied as unifications or reunifications, cases of independence, federalism, separatism or the building of nationalisms. Which processes are at stake (linguistic, symbolical, ideological, cultural, political, etc.) in the construction of a nation's identity? What role does the state play? One can also focus on the emergence of particular identities (ethnic groups, dialects) in the face of national identity: how is cultural identity built from inside a nation or a party? How can different communities live together?

- Linguistic:

The question of identity / otherness is one of the main issues of translation, for the notion of equivalent is in itself a problem: how can one identify two texts (the source and the target) when these texts are not identical?

The theme of plurilingualism accurately fits into the questions raised in this seminar as plurilingual texts bring out the issue of dialectal identity in the face of globalization: is the sake-keeping of one's identity, the aim of plurilingual texts? More generally speaking, they mingle both concepts of identity and identification as soon as one questions the way such a literature is perceived: how may one contemplate the identification of the reader within the perception of plurilingual texts focused on a particular identity? Though which (narratological) processes does one identify oneself to a language, or an author from such or such a part of the country / world?

Finally, one may study the different linguistic marks of identity or identification (semic, metalinguistic marks) particular to each language, and deliver a comparison between different languages.

-Literary:

What process is at stake in an author's identification to a past literary movement? How may one create a new identity out of one's identification? One can address parodies, pastiches, covers and tributes, as many ways to identify oneself to a movement or an author whilst standing away from them; one may also address writing mechanisms understood as identifying processes and ending in a possible creation of one's identity.

One may explore the notions of self-deconstruction, identity crisis in the postmodern era: how can a literary movement be labeled when the actual concept of belonging to a movement is itself in crisis?

A narrative perspective may be adopted, so as to determine the processes at stake in the building or perception of a character: how is the literary character's identity constructed and what are its relationships to other literary features? How does the reader's identity impact on the character's (sympathy, rejection)?

Identity and identification are at the core of questions about gender, in the sense that gender is built out of models used to support identification. One can therefore question the different forms of masculine and/or feminine identification within identity itself, as well as their social, literary and ideological implications.

The aim of this seminar is therefore to rethink the link between identity and identification in the light of recent research and to mobilize all the fields Modern Languages studies do offer to try and address this issue.