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--></style></head><body lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><h2 align="center" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">Call for Proposals</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">on</span></p><h2 align="center" style="margin-top:0in;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:windowtext">“Governing Languages”</span></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Thematic Section No. 14</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center">
<span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Congrès AFSP Paris 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">12<sup>th</sup> Congress of the AFSP (Association Française de Science Politique)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Paris, 9-11 July 2013</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Abstract/Proposal Deadline: October 15, 2012</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Character Limit: 1500 (including spaces)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Language: French and/or English</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Submit to: Selma K. Sonntag (</span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:Selma.Sonntag@humboldt.edu"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Selma.Sonntag@humboldt.edu</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">) and Nuria Garcia (</span><span lang="FR"><a href="mailto:nuria.garcia@sciences-po.org"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">nuria.garcia@sciences-po.org</span></a></span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">We invite paper proposals for a thematic section on “Governing Languages” at the AFSP Congress in Paris on July 9-11, 2013. The theme of “Governing Languages” seeks to overcome the dichotomy between instrumental and symbolic approaches to the study of language by linking language politics and policies to broader questions of political science. We therefore are soliciting papers that address the concept and practice of governing languages in contemporary, complex democratic societies from a comparative perspective in order to further develop a body of research and reflection on governing languages. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Accepted p</span><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">apers addressing the general theme of governing languages will be grouped into two sessions at the AFSP Congress in Paris in July 2013:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The first session will focus on language policies. In the context of defining and delimiting language policies, questions to be addressed will include: How are language policies differentiated from other public policies? Are they differentiated by specific instruments and goals? Are there different types of language policies and how are these differences articulated?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">The second session will focus on language politics. More specifically, we are interested in papers that address the relationship between governing languages and other modalities of governing such as citizenship regimes. Are language politics reflective of a given model of citizenship? How do language politics represent, define and delimit the civic community? How is the nature of citizenship affected by the governing of languages?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">In engaging in this collective reflection and research on language policies and politics, we will privilege those contributions with a comparative dimension and which attempt to relate empirical case studies to more general questions on the governing of languages. We also encourage a diversity of approaches in terms of types of cases, scale of analysis (e.g., national, regional, supernational), and methodology and sources. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">Accepted papers may be presented in French or English.</span></p>
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