[lg policy] Fwd: Event: Workshop, Languages at War: Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict, Western Europe/Bosnia-Herzegovina, London, 28.5.2010 ‏

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From: Costica Bradatan <bradatan at MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU<mailto:bradatan at MAIL.H-NET.MSU.EDU>>
Date: 30 April 2010 00:11:29 GMT+01:00
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Subject: Event: Workshop, Languages at War: Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict, Western Europe/Bosnia-Herzegovina, London, 28.5.2010‏
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Languages at War: Policies and Practices of Language Contacts in Conflict
2nd Annual Workshop

MEETING THE ‘OTHER’ IN WAR: two case studies (Western Europe 1944-47 /
Bosnia-Herzegovina 1995-2000)

28 May 2010
Conference Room, Imperial War Museum, London


10.00: Welcome and coffee
James Taylor (Imperial War Museum); Prof Hilary Footitt (University of
Reading)

10.30–11.30: Keynote paper
Prof Joanna Bourke (Birkbeck College): Does the enemy have a face?: combat
narratives, speech acts and faciality, 1914–1975

11.30–11.45: Coffee

11.45–1.15: Case study 1: Western Europe 1944–47
Prof Hilary Footitt (University of Reading): Geographies of co-existence:
fraternization revisited
Dr Simona Tobia (University of Reading): Interrogations: transnational
encounters during and after the war
Discussants: Prof Anita Prażmowska (LSE); Dr Dan Todman (Queen Mary,
University of London)

1.15–1.45: Lunch

1.45–3.15: Case study 2: Bosnia-Herzegovina 1995–2000
Prof Mike Kelly (University of Southampton): Kicking the jeep: how a little
language goes a long way
Dr Catherine Baker (University of Southampton): Prosperity without security:
locally-employed interpreters in the Bosnian economy
Discussants: Dr Vanessa Pupavac (University of Nottingham); Dr Stephanie
Schwandner-Sievers (Roehampton University)

3.15–4.00: Museums and war
James Taylor (Imperial War Museum): Saying the unsayable: challenging
history at the Imperial War Museum
Discussant: Samantha Cairns (Museums, Libraries and Archives London)

4.00–4.15: Coffee

4.15–4.45: Closing remarks
Nick Stansfield (Freelance international contractor): Language encounters on
the ground


Registration: please e-mail french at reading.ac.uk<mailto:french at reading.ac.uk> / call 0118 371 8121 by 7
May 2010



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Costica Bradatan,
H-Ideas Online Editor

[AY 2009-2010]
Solmsen Fellow
The Institute for Research in the Humanities
University Club Building
University of Wisconsin - Madison
Madison, WI 53703

http://www.webpages.ttu.edu/cbradata

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Yael Peled

Nuffield College
Oxford OX1 1NF, UK

Tel.: + 44 (0)1865 278975
Fax: + 44 (0)1865 278621
http://oxford.academia.edu/YaelPeled/


(April-June 2010):
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Israel



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