Considering the language(s): power and limitations

GRAPHÉ will hold its first symposium on October, 24th and 25th 2024, at Université Jean Monnet, Saint-Étienne. This symposium is open to junior as well as experienced researchers and mainly aims at understanding and analysing the ways in which language can be manipulated in contexts of power. It welcomes researchers from various disciplines and fields of study wishing to work on vastly different eras and places, so that the approaches may be diverse and echo one another in a fruitful discussion. As the laboratory also engages in an epistemological approach, the symposium will enable the participants to take part in a questioning of the means and methods available to researchers in order to perceive the tangibility of actions through language.

Following this general line of analysis, proposals focusing on the following issues (non-exhaustive list) will be considered to rethink the link between power and language :

A – Language and power through the prism of NLP (Natural Language Engineering)

B – Language and images, the language of images, and imagery

C – Reconstructing the power dynamics in historical sources

D – Artistic and literary manipulation on the edge of language