ICLLCD 2023

The 2nd International Conference on Literature, Language, and Culture Development (ICLLCD 2023) was a hybird conference which includes several workshops (offline and online) around the world. Prof. Munteanu from Danubius University of Galaţi, and Dr. Nafhesa Ali from Northumbria University have chaired these workshops on related topics. ICLLCD 2023 provided the participants with good opportunities to exchange ideas and build networks, and it will lead to further collaborations between both universities and other societies.

Workshop:

Danubius University of Galaţi, Romania

Organizer: Prof. Cristinel Munteanu, Professor in Danubius University of Galaţi

The workshop Intercultural Communication and the Risk of Aberrant Decoding aimed at re-evaluating the concept of 'aberrant decoding' (initially theorized by U. Eco), while trying to re-establish its primary meaning, and better defining this concept, with an emphasis on the importance of 'context' in the case when such a type of decoding occurs. The participants, guided by Professor Cristinel Munteanu, PhD, vividly discussed some interesting aspects in connection to the reality of intercultural communication, taking as a point of departure a series of examples given by Prof. Cr. Munteanu, either from history (real examples), or from literature (imaginary examples). Although the notion of 'aberrant decoding' has proven itself really useful in intercultural communication, however, the participants also found out that (due to J. Fiske, mainly) the concept in question is still applied in a reductionist manner, the linguistic or verbal component being neglected (or even ignored) in this case. Nevertheless, as it was pointed out during the workshop, this was not Umberto Eco's intention. At the same time, the participants tried to prove (and succeeded in proving) the fact that linguistic aberrant decoding also appears in the case of terminologies and ideologies when they are expressed in a discourse.

George Washington University, USA

Organizer: Prof. David T. Mitchell, Professor in George Washington University

The scope of this workshop covered in this workshop runs approximately from 1973 (with the arrival of the Hokulea on the island of Oahu) and the literature and arts that event helped spawn. Participants were expected to come away with a sense of the exile of people with leprosy on the island of Moloka'i against their will at the hands of the government and medical professions beginning in 1866. The exile of those diagnosed with leprosy continued to deepen a desire for pursuing the ongoing dispossession of Native Hawaiians and the indentured servants lured from Asia to perform the back breaking exploitative work of the plantation system which ran from the harvesting of Sandalwood trees in the early 19th century, to sugar cane plantations throughout the nineteenth and much of the 20th century and pineapple plantation the largely employed Filipino workers.

Important Info