14.364, Calls: British Studies/Socioling Symposium

Wed Feb 5 19:01:21 UTC 2003

LINGUIST List:  Vol-14-364. Wed Feb 5 2003. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 14.364, Calls: British Studies/Socioling Symposium

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1)
Date:  Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:15:08 +0000
From:  mageorg at nlcv.net
Subject:  Bulgarian Society for British Studies, Bulgaria

2)
Date:  Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:44:59 +0000
From:  ss15 at ncl.ac.uk
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium, UK

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:15:08 +0000
From:  mageorg at nlcv.net
Subject:  Bulgarian Society for British Studies, Bulgaria

8th Conference of the Bulgarian Society for British Studies: Spaces,
Gaps, Borders

Short Title: Spaces, Gaps, Borders
Location: Sofia, Bulgaria

Date: 24-Oct-2003 - 26-Oct-2003
Call Deadline: 01-Jun-2003

Web Site: http://writingacademia.org/bsbs.
Contact Person: Vessela Katsarova
Meeting Email: veskat at fcml.uni-sofia.bg

Linguistic Subfield(s): Ling & Literature

Meeting Description:

The conference aims at exploring relationships between the English
language, English-speaking cultures, and diverse mappings of space,
symbolic terrains and meaningful divisions in a globalizing world,
borders and borderlands, lines of communication and their failure,
moments of silence and pregnant pauses.

Possible topics include: constructing imaginative
geographies/histories, space and place, gender and space, gaps and/in
canons, silence and creativity, globalization and cultural divisions,
globalization and the English language, the Divided Kingdom?,
literature and markets.

Proposals by 1 June 2003 to:

Vessela Katsarova,
Sofia University, Dpt of English and American Studies,
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria,
email: <veskat at fcml.uni-sofia.bg>; or

Ludmilla Kostova, Dept. of English and American
Studies, University of Veliko Turnovo, 2 Teodossi
Turnovski St., Veliko Turnovo 5003, Bulgaria,
email: <lkostova at mbox.digsys.bg>; or

Roumen Genov, Sofia University, Dpt of History,
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd., Sofia, Bulgaria,
email: <genov at clio.uni-sofia.bg>, or

Maria Georgieva, Sofia University, Dpt of English
and American Studies, 15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd.,
Sofia, Bulgaria, email: mageorg at nlcv.net.

Consult also the BSBS Website
http://writingacademia.org/bsbs

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Wed, 05 Feb 2003 05:44:59 +0000
From:  ss15 at ncl.ac.uk
Subject:  Sociolinguistics Symposium, UK

15th Sociolinguistics Symposium

Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom
Date: 01-APR-04 - 05-APR-04

Call Deadline: 02-Mar-2003

Web Site: http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15/
Contact Person: Organizing Committee
Meeting Email: ss15 at ncl.ac.uk
Linguistic Subfield(s): Sociolinguistics

Meeting Description:

The 15th Sociolinguistics Symposium, Europe's premier international
conference on language in society, will return to Newcastle (UK) after
18 years, in April 2004. It will be hosted by the University of
Newcastle upon Tyne, the University of Durham, the University of
Northumbria at Newcastle, and the University of Sunderland.

The Sociolinguistics Symposia began in the 1970s by a group of
UK-based sociolinguists who saw the need for a fairly informal forum
to discuss research findings and to debate theoretical and
methodological issues concerning language in society. It has since
grown into a large, international conference, typically attracting
400-500 participants. Normally, it takes place once every two years in
a UK university but sometimes in continental Europe too. In 1986, the
University of Newcastle upon Tyne hosted the 6th Sociolinguistics
Symposium. We are very pleased that it will return in 2004.

Themes: Culture, Contact, and Change

Proposals that address the theme of the conference (Culture, Contact,
and Change) are especially welcome; however, the organisers welcome
papers on any aspect of sociolinguistics.

There will be workshops and thematic colloquia, convened by
specialists. Abstracts can be submitted as part of a workshop, part of
a colloquium, or individually for parallel paper sessions or
posters.

More details of the Call for Papers will be available shortly;
the deadline for submission of abstracts will be April 1st,
2003.

Keynote Speakers (who have agreed to participate to date):

Peter Auer (University of Freiburg)
Jenny Cheshire (Queen Mary, University of London)
Jane Hill (University of Arizona)
Lesley Milroy (University of Michigan)
Shana Poplack (University of Ottawa)

Deadlines:

Deadline for thematic panels (workshops and colloquia) proposals has
been EXTENDED until 2nd March 2003.

Deadline for poster and paper proposals: 1st April 2003.

For further details, please visit the URLs below:

Sociolinguistics Symposium 15 website:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15

Submission guidelines:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/ss15/deadlines/submission_guidelines.htm			

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