Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-2024)

Description

Slurring Terms Across Languages (STAL-24) is an international and interdisciplinary workshop whose primary aim is to gather work on slurs from languages that have been seldom discussed in the recent philosophical and semantic literature, and in particular, from sign languages and non-Indo-European languages. It aims to bring to light new empirical data and uncover novel interesting phenomena that may have the potential to challenge current theories of slurs. We search for theoretical and empirical studies of slurs from such languages, comparisons with English slurs, as well as wider cross-linguistic approaches. We also welcome developments of extant theories in application to the new data or previously neglected phenomena.

Program Committee (alphabetical, as of November 2023)

Bianca Cepollaro (University Vita-Salute San Raffaele); Filippo Domaneschi (University of Genoa); Leopold Hess (Jagiellonian University); Elsi Kaiser (University of Southern California); Natalia Karczewska (University of Warsaw); Jeremy Kuhn (Institut Jean Nicod); Chang Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University); Elin McCready (Aoyama Gakuin University); Eleonora Orlando (CONICET/University of Buenos Aires); Andrés Saab (SADAF/University of Buenos Aires); Isidora Stojanovic (Institut Jean Nicod); Dan Zeman (Slovak Academy of Sciences)

Organizing committee

The workshop is organized by Isidora Stojanovic and Dan Zeman, and is part of the activities of the STAL Network (https://sites.google.com/view/stalnetwork).  

Venue

The conference will be held at the Institute of Philosophy, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Klemensova 19, 811 09 Bratislava. Bratislava is easy to reach by plane from all major cities in Europe. It has it own airport, and is also very close to Vienna International Airport, connection with which is assured by regular buses (length of trip: approx. 1 hour).

Contact

All questions about the workshop should be emailed to [email protected].