21.2986, Calls: Socioling/Ireland

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Date: 19-Jul-2010
From: Svetlana Eriksson < krshiaks at tcd.ie >
Subject: Relocating Cultures
 

	
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Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 09:54:29
From: Svetlana Eriksson [krshiaks at tcd.ie]
Subject: Relocating Cultures

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Full Title: Relocating Cultures 

Date: 13-Apr-2011 - 15-Apr-2011
Location: Dublin, Ireland 
Contact Person: Sarah Smyth
Meeting Email: ssmyth at tcd.ie
Web Site: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/our-languages/conference.php 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

The 'Our Languages' research team in Trinity College Dublin is hosting two 
conferences back-to-back in April 2011. In the first conference, 'Relocating 
Cultures', the organisers bring together scholars in the fields of language in 
society, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language politics, and 
diaspora and identity studies; the second is the annual conference of the 
Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. (Please 
search for 'The collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 years on' conference). 
These two events target different, but overlapping participants and 
audiences.

The programme of 'Relocating Cultures' (13-15 April 2011) is structured to 
move from the more conceptual and theoretical (without privileging any 
particular ethnic, social or linguistic group) to a more narrow focus on 
Russian as a minority language in the modern world (without discounting 
discussion of other global/world/vehicular/bridge or minority languages in 
diaspora). The four panels envisaged are:

Multilingualism in the public sphere;
Culture over Time;
Networking and Identity Performance;
Russian as a Local Language.

Three public lectures by eminent guest speakers will frame the proceedings 
and broaden the audience yet further. The Wednesday lecture will examine 
and critique multilingualism and language policy/ policing (Professor Jan 
Blommaert, Tilberg University); the Thursday lecture will investigate the 
practices of bi-/pluri-lingual speakers (Professor Li Wei, Birkbeck, University 
of London); the Friday evening lecture will serve as a bridge between the 
two conferences and will look at the impact of the collapse of the Soviet 
Union on Diaspora communities and cultural repertoires.

These conferences provide a forum in which scholars interact in dialogue 
with colleagues from different discipline areas, with different methodologies 
and theoretical frameworks. The panels will be scheduled sequentially (not 
in parallel sessions). Speakers will thus be addressing specialists and non-
specialists in their field. 

Call For Papers

If you would like to offer a paper, please send an abstract to ssmyth at tcd.ie 
by 31st October 2010. The organising committee will agree the first draft 
programme(s) by the end of November. Participants will be asked to submit 
their papers/powerpoints by the end of February 2011 for circulation to 
other members of their panel. If you would like to be kept on or added to the 
circulation list, please do not hesitate to get in touch.

-Sarah Smyth
PI ''Our Languages'' Who in Ireland speaks and understands Russian? An 
investigation into cultural and linguistic diversity





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