La Consejería de Educación de la Embajada de España y el Seminar für Iberoromanistik de la Universidad de Basilea celebran este congreso del 12 al 13 de octubre de 2018 en Basilea (Suiza). El objetivo es proponer un acercamiento al cómic para abordarlo en común desde un punto de vista multidisciplinar. Las líneas de estudios que se proponen están enfocadas a la literatura gráfica desde la visión de los autores, de su percepción de la historia y de la actualidad por medio de las viñetas, así como los estudios culturales que a partir de ellos surgen y el análisis de la relación entre discurso y texto más allá de lo meramente literario. También se abordará de qué manera el cómic puede ser una herramienta para la enseñanza ELE.

La conferencia de clausura estará a cargo del historietista e ilustrador Paco Roca, Premio Nacional del Cómic en 2008 y Premio Goya al Mejor Guión Adaptado en 2011 por Arrugas.

La fecha límite para la presentación de propuestas de comunicación será el 30 de mayo. El resumen de las comunicaciones tendrá un máximo de 300 palabras, acompañadas de un título, una nota biográfica del autor o autora (no más de 150 palabras), su dirección de correo electrónico y la institución de procedencia. Las ponencias no excederán más de 25 minutos de duración.

04/10/2017-06/10/2017: Over the last years, the current standards for scientific discovery have repeatedly been questioned. Especially the social sciences are going through a «replicability crisis» triggered by three main causes: 1) observations and experiments are carried out on samples that are too small to properly observe the investigated effects, 2) the current standard for claiming significant discoveries is based on p-values, which pose several problems (e.g. they do not indicate the size of the observe effects, they can suffer important alterations depending on small modifications of the data, eventually leading to “p-hacking”, and they are poorly understood by many researchers), and 3) strong pressure for publishing only significant results has lead to a publication bias caused by the reluctance to publish negative results, which precludes a great amount of relevant data highly needed to reject type I errors (i.e. false positives) from getting published. Some disciplines, like social psychology, are increasingly drawing attention to these issues,while others, like linguistics, have not yet addressed them satisfactorily. This workshop aims at providing an opportunity to discuss these challenges.
Particularly junior linguistics researchers, who have questions on these problems but seldom find answers within the discipline, are invited to participate. The workshop will bring together renowned experts to give plenary lectures on relevant topics like sampling methods and sample sizes, p-values vs. effect sizes and bayesian statistics, cognitive biases affecting the scientific method, and strong-inferences techniques. The workshop will have a strong practical focus, combining these plenaries with short presentations by participants as well as practical sessions accompanied by the experts.

We call for presentations of 15 minutes in which doctoral and postdoctoral researchers discuss quantitative issues from, or related to, their own research. The presentations are expected to point at potential problems, which can subsequently be addressed in practical sessions with the invited experts.

Plenary speakers

• Martin Hilpert (University of Neuchâtel) (Presidential address)
• Nicolas Evans ((Australian National University, Canberra)
• Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London 

Round table “Saussure and linguistics in the 20th and 21st centuries”:

• John E. Joseph (University of Edinburgh)
• Klaas Willems (Ghent University)
• Ekaterina V. Rakhilina (National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow)