When: |
17 Nov through 17 Nov 2018 | |
CFP Deadline: |
31 |
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Where: |
London, United Kingdom | |
Website URL: |
http://language.lcir.co.uk/ | |
Sponsoring organization: |
London Centre for Interdisciplinary Research | |
Categories: |
Arts & Humanities - Languages/Literature |
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Event description:
Those scholars committed to an inter-disciplinary perspective on human experiences confront centuries-old divisions between and among the natural sciences, social sciences and the humanities, competing investigative methods, descriptive foci, and explanatory emphases. Bolstered by specialization, administrative demarcations, professionalization, and expertise, the discontinuities generate trajectories of intellectual enrichment and progress. On the other hand, have scholars within these intellectual spheres, disciplines, and area studies become passing ships in the night? What would constitute evidence of this condition, if this is, indeed, the case? Have scholars not been displaced from public discourse and social media? Are their prescriptive inputs vitiated by political and personal denunciations? Nevertheless, amid the welter of divergences and disputes, language stands out as an omnipresent commonality. Disputants appear to subscribe to universally obligatory presuppositions...
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