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<div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Colleagues,</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please disseminate this CFP to linguists and linguistic anthropologists you know working in Northern regions. thanks, alex</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I am organizing a panel on language shift and revival/maintenance in </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">the North for the conference titled:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">“Human Dimensions in the Circumpolar Arctic” 8-10 October 2008.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><!--StartFragment--><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-indent:-49.65pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Session Title: Arctic Languages, Shift &Revival: the cultural and political dimensions of speaking a language<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-indent:-49.65pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:49.65pt;text-indent:-49.65pt;line-height: normal"><span lang="EN-GB"><b>Abstract</b></span><span lang="EN-GB">: This panel addresses the twin topics of language shift and endangerment on the one hand, and language revival and maintenance on the other. The extinction of languages spoken around the world is proceeding at an alarming pace, and the North is no different in this regard. Northern linguistic ecology has the familiar pattern of a handful of political dominant, national languages (e.g., English, Russian, Swedish, etc.) are expanding at the expense of languages spoken by small groups, which are typically classed as indigenous peoples. The specific mechanisms of language shift, whereby people stop speaking their heritage language and take up (and their children grow up speaking) a politically dominant language instead are complex and worthy of further investigation. Equally complex are the problems facing communities that are interested in maintaining or reviving their heritage language. Papers in this panel confront questions on these two topics, highlighting the interconnection of political, social, economic and cultural forces causing and caused by the language choices of individuals and communities.</span></p> <!--EndFragment--> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Please email me (Alex King <<a href="mailto:a.king@abdn.ac.uk">a.king@abdn.ac.uk</a>>) with a preliminary abstract by May 1. I will, of course, consider late submissions, given the tardiness of this call, but we cannot wait too long.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Details of the conference:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The conference will be held at Umeå University, Umeå, located in the north</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">of Sweden, about 700 km north of Stockholm. It will pay particular</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">attention to human life and conditions in the circumpolar Arctic in the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">past, present and future. Questions that will be addressed are how the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">situation in the North has been depicted in science, art and literature</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">and how the possibilities for various kinds of social and economical</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">developments have been understood at various times. Other questions are</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">how climate, ecology and different types of resource use have influenced</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">conditions for life in the North and the role of national and</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">international politics for northern developments and conditions. Policy</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">questions concerning the Arctic region will also be discussed during the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">conference.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Further information on the conference may be had on the Conference website:</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.umea-congress.se/polar2008.html">http://www.umea-congress.se/polar2008.html</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">At the conference the second issue of Journal of Northern Studies will</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">also be available. Information on this journal may be had at</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><a href="http://www.jns.org.umu.se">http://www.jns.org.umu.se</a></div><div><br></div><div>Alex King</div><div>Aberdeen University</div><div>Scotland</div><br><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: 'Lucida Grande'; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; 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