[Linganth] CFP: "Motherless Tongues, Tongueless Mothers, and Other Modern Maladies" - AAS 2022, 23–26 Nov

[Josh Babcock]

Dear colleagues,

We are excited to welcome proposals for the Australian Anthropology
Society's annual conference, to be held at Deakin University in Victoria,
Australia from 23–26 November 2022. The panel abstract is included below.

*Motherless Tongues, Tongueless Mothers, and Other Modern Maladies*
For racialized speakers living in the wake of colonial modernity, “mother
tongues” persist as perilous, precarious terrain. Participants in this
panel trace out the variously essentialized links between collective
identities, individuated personhood, and the denotational codes that come
to anchor language-community attentions—not just a group's language, but
more essentially, their “mother tongue.” What transformations, investments,
anxieties, blockages, and affinities are necessary to enable these
languages’ continued, ambivalent existence as being as close as one's
“mother”? How do raciolinguistic and raciosemiotic performances of
personhood come to feel for participants as if they are anchored by and
naturalized through “mother tongues,” especially in cases where the
connection (or the language) is constructed as broken, severed, corrupted,
or irrevocably lost? What are these languages’ social lives as objects of
aspiration that are themselves offered as forms of gendered, socio-cultural
“life support” while simultaneously finding themselves on “life
support”—not only necessary, but also denied anchoring in identity,
history, gender, labor, and value? Panelists explore these questions
through ethnographic studies undertaken at a range of historical,
institutional, and interactional sites across distinct, yet interconnected
geographies.

Proposals should be submitted via the AAS conference portal by *Friday, 15
July 2022 (GMT +10)*: https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/aas2022/p/11868#.
Please note that, for submissions made from North America, you'll need to
submit by Thursday, 14 July.

Paper proposals consist of:

   - a paper/contribution title
   - the name/s and email address/es of author/s
   - a short abstract of <300 characters
   - long abstract of less than 250 words

If you have any questions, please contact Josh Babcock (
josh.babcock at gmail.com) and Jessica Chandras (jschandras at gmail.com). We
look forward to receiving your submissions!

Best,


Josh & Jessica
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