<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Cynthia Gordon</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cyngordon@gmail.com">cyngordon@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Fri, Apr 15, 2016 at 10:59 AM<br> Deadline extended: 3rd International Conf on Lang., Ling., Lit. and Translation (Nov. 2016)<br><br><br><br> <br><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">I wanted to let you know about an extended CFP deadline for this conference in Muscat, Oman. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>3rd International Conference on Language,
Linguistics, Literature and Translation</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>November 3-5 2016 Oman</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Department of English Language and Literature</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Sultan Qaboos University</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Extended Call Deadline: 25 April 2016</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Meeting Description</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Connecting the Dots in a Glocalized World 2016
will provide a forum for the exchange of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ideas in the four main disciplines of
language, linguistics, literature and translation. As the</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">title for the conference suggests, the aim is
to focus on the relationship between global</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">themes and local practices, highlighting the
under-examined interactions that occur as</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">globalization takes on negotiated forms in
different contexts. With an emphasis on</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">interdisciplinary studies and methodologies,
the conference will centralize both research that</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">theorizes the links between the local and the
global and research that shows, through practical</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">evidence, how local and global interact.
Proposals that aim to address either of these two</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">areas, and which emphasize exploratory,
experimental research or reconstructed concepts,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">frameworks of analysis, or approaches, are
particularly welcome.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Proposals which fall outside the focus of the
conference, but within the disciplines of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">language, linguistics, literature and
translation, will also be considered.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Confirmed Keynote Speakers</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Jan Blommaert (Linguistics), Tilburg
University, The Netherlands</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Michael Cronin (Translation), Dublin City
University, Ireland</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Ian Almond (Literature), Georgetown
University, Qatar</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Rani Rubdy (Language), Independent Scholar</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Sample conference themes include the
following, but a wide range of proposals is invited:</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Language</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Language, culture and globalization</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Global teaching policies and local norms</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Language commodification and ideologies</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Globalizing technologies and the language
classroom</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Linguistics</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Social media and identity</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Language acquisition and migrant populations</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Language change and the media</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Global/local language adaptation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Literature</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Localizing global/world literatures</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Arabic and non-Western literature in a
globalized world</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Literature from the diaspora</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> The sociolinguistics of literature</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Translation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Issues in local/global translation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Translating culturally remote literature</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Translation and multimodal texts</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Symbol">·</span><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> Machine translation and the web</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Submission Details</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><b>Extended Call Deadline: 25 April 2016</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Proposals are invited for papers (20 +10
minutes discussion).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">To submit your abstract, please send an email
(with a Word attachment) to the following</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">address: <a href="mailto:squconference2016@gmail.com" target="_blank">squconference2016@gmail.com</a> by the
relevant submission deadline. Please include</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">ALL the following information, numbered:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">1. Name, title and affiliation (university/college/etc)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">2. Full address (include country), email and
telephone (include country code)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">3. Title of paper/presentation</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">4. Areas which the paper/presentation links
(please be precise)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">5. Brief outline of the paper/presentation for
inclusion in the conference program (100</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">words max)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">6. Full abstract for the review committee (500
words max)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">7. Up to five relevant keywords</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In common with previous conferences organized
by the Department of English Language and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Literature, it is intended that an edited
collection of papers from the conference will be</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">published. Accepted presenters will need to
submit their paper for publication in early</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">February 2017. Further details will be
provided in due course.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sultan Qaboos University, Oman’s largest and
most prestigious institution of higher</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">learning, is located 45km from Muscat. The
university offers undergraduate and</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">postgraduate degrees to approximately 16,000
students.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Oman, a peaceful nation on the Arabian Gulf in
the Middle East, is hailed as the jewel of</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Arabia. It has landscape covering desert,
riverbed oases and long coastlines. The capital</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">city, Muscat, is home to the majestic Sultan
Qaboos Grand Mosque, Royal Opera House</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Muscat, and the old waterfront Mutrah bazaar.</span></p></div></div>
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