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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Modern Languages Symposium 2011</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Committee for Modern Language, Literary and Cultural Studies of the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Royal</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Irish</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Academy</st1:PlaceType></st1:place></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">School of Languages, Dublin Institute of Technology</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Scoil na dTeangacha, Institiúd Teicneolaíochta Átha Cliath</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">2 and 3 December, 2011</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">“Language, Migration and Diaspora”</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Dear Colleagues, Researchers, Postgraduates,</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">We are seeking contributions to the Modern Languages Symposium in 2011, <st1:country-region w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Ireland</st1:place></st1:country-region>’s largest and most comprehensive conference and research showcase in the field of Modern Languages. Individual papers, group presentations and panels under the following themes and headings are welcome. Contributions are limited to a duration of twenty minutes.</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Linguistic and Cultural Construction of Migrant and Diaspora Identity</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Language as Cultural and Learning Space</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Idiomatic Use of Language by Migrants and in the Diaspora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Migrants, Diaspora and Language Learning and Teaching</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Linguistic and Cultural Issues of Bi- and Multi-Lingualism</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Language Policy</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">INTEGRATION AND EXCLUSION:</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">The Literary Portrayal of Migrant, Diaspora and</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Centre-Periphery Dynamics</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Representations of Diasporas in Literature</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Migrant and National Literature</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Migrant and Diaspora</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Culture versus Majority</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Culture: Literature, Film and Art as Mediator and</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Integrative Agent of Cross-Fertilisation</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Cultural Constructs of the Outsider</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Literature as Multicultural</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Criticism</P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">CULTURAL STUDIES & INTERDISCIPLINARY</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Language, Migration and Diaspora in Film, Theatre and the Arts</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Cross-Fertilisation between Migrants, Diaspora and “Centre”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Impact of Migration and Diaspora on “Majority Culture”</P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Issues of Migration and Diaspora in the Reporting Media</P>
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