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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"><b class="">The Quest for Modern Language between the Mediterranean and the Black sea</b></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Language ideologies were an important component of modern nationalism, and figured prominently in the cultural and political discourses
of modernity and modernization in and around what came to be known as "the Middle East" in the 19th and early 20th centuries. We invite submissions for a two day workshop, to be held at the University of Chicago on April 13-14, 2023, which seeks to bring together
scholars across humanistic and social scientific disciplines (such as History, Literary theory, Linguistic and Anthropology) to explore the articulation, circulation, and mobilization of ideas about language death and revival, language reform, and language
modernization in the contexts of empire, emerging nationalisms, and a modernized / quickly modernizing world. </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Invited speakers: </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Johann Strauss, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg</span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Some of the topics we hope to see addressed include: </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(a) What does / did it mean for a language to be or become a modern language within the relevant discourses? </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(b) How does multilingualism and translation figure within projects of language modernization in the relevant geopolitical contexts? </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(b) How, if at all, did developments in linguistics, philology, and adjacent disciplines inform and shape ideas about "modern language"
and related ideas such as "modern / national literature"? </span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(c) How do notions of native tongue, language family, vernacular dialect or register interact with concepts such as empire, nation, motherland?</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">(d) How does the relation between language and the body figure in projects of (re)generation of modern polities and individuals? </span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">Workshop webpage: <a href="https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/qfml/" class="">https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/qfml/</a></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">1-page abstracts for a 30 minute presentation should be sent to <a href="mailto:ifrancez@uchicago.edu" class=""><span class="" style="font-kerning: none; color: rgb(9, 79, 209);">ifrancez@uchicago.edu</span></a></span></div>
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<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Submission deadline</span><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;">: December 15th, 2022</span></div>
<div class="" style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal;"><span class="" style="text-decoration: underline; font-kerning: none;">Notification of acceptance:</span><span class="" style="font-kerning: none;"> January 2022</span></div>
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