18.386, Confs: General Ling/USA

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Date: 01-Feb-2007
From: Deborah Schiffrin < schiffrd at georgetown.edu >
Subject: Jewish Languages, Identities, and Cultures 

	
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Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 11:43:09
From: Deborah Schiffrin < schiffrd at georgetown.edu >
Subject:  Jewish Languages, Identities, and Cultures 
 

Jewish Languages, Identities, and Cultures 

Date: 18-Feb-2007 - 19-Feb-2007 
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact: Deborah Schiffrin 
Contact Email: schiffrd at georgetown.edu 
Meeting URL: http://pjc.georgetown.edu/events.html 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

The Symposium will examine how Jews have been making and remaking identities and
cultures through language and other symbolic media over time, across place and
within genres. For Jews, relationships among language, identity and culture have
been reshaped, and have been reshaping one another, for thousands of years. Each
one of these different facets of Jewish life has been woven and rewoven together
over time and across the many different places where Jews have lived (from
ancient Israel, the wide ranging Diaspora in Europe, Asia and the Americas, to
modern Israel). Likewise, Jewish representations of selfhood, nation and culture
appear within a wide variety of genres ranging from religious texts to oral
story telling, oral history, fiction, drama and music, each of which provides
different formal and performance options for weaving language together with
identity and culture. 

A conference on Transcending Boundaries: Jewish Languages, Identities, and
Cultures to be held February 18-19, 2007 at Georgetown University, Washington, DC.

Conference schedule and on-line registration are at
http://pjc.georgetown.edu/events.html.





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