21.4337, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Subject: 21.4337, Calls: Sociolinguistics/Italy

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Date: 30-Oct-2010
From: Giovanni Iamartino [giovanni.iamartino at unimi.it]
Subject: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe

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Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 17:41:12
From: Giovanni Iamartino [giovanni.iamartino at unimi.it]
Subject: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe

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Full Title: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe 

Date: 06-Jun-2011 - 08-Jun-2011
Location: Gargnano del Garda (Brescia), Italy 
Contact Person: Giovanni Iamartino
Meeting Email: giovanni.iamartino at unimi.it
Web Site: http://users.unimi.it/cirsil_mi 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 

Meeting Description:

The conference welcomes papers on historical studies (approximately, 
1500-1900) consistent with such research topics as Women as language 
users; Women learning and teaching foreign languages; Language books 
for women; Women in language books; Women, foreign languages and 
society. 

Call For Papers

Dear Colleague,

Following the most successful conference held in Granada on 5-7 
November 2008, you are cordially invited to an international conference 
entitled Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe to 
be held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano on Lake Garda, 6th to 8th June  
2011. The Conference will be jointly organized by the Department of 
Language  Studies and Compared Literature of the University of Milan and 
CIRSIL - Centro  Interuniversitario di Ricerca per la Storia degli 
Insegnamenti Linguistici  (i.e.the Italian interuniversity research centre for 
the history of foreign language teaching) - in co-operation with the sister 
associations and research groups in France (SIHFLES: Société 
Internationale pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde), 
the Netherlands (PHG: Peeter Heynsgenootschap, Learned society for the 
history of language teaching), Portugal (APHELLE: Associação Portuguesa 
para a História do Ensino das Línguas e Literaturas) and Spain (SEHEL: 
Sociedad Española para la Historia de las Enseñanzas Lingüísticas).

The conference welcomes historical studies (approximately, 1500-1900) on 
any topic consistent with the theme of the conference. The following rubrics 
and suggestions may be useful:
- Women as language users:
-women as foreign language speakers
-women and language skills
-women and plurilingualism
-women and the study of modern vs classical languages
-women translators and their job

- Women learnigng and teaching foreign languages:
-genre-based  linguistic education 
-learning foreign languages at home or at girls' schools
-foreign language teaching methodology and women
-women as foreign language teachers
-syllabuses for teaching women foreign languages

- Language books for women:
-grammar books, manual and dictionaries for women
-bilingual or multilingual manuals of conversation for women
-reading books for girls
-the authors of language books and manuals for women

- Women in language books:
-women's words and the women's world in dictionaries
-teaching grammar and morality in grammar books for women
-women in travel guides

- WOMEN, FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND SOCIETY:
-'female' vs 'male' languages
-foreign languages and gender stereotypes
-women's reactions to sexism in languages
-women, foreign languages and different worldviews
-schools, colleges, and academies for teaching girls foreign languages
-teaching politeness strategies, address forms and speech acts in foreign 
languages in order to convey or subvert traditional roles and behaviours

Abstracts of no more than 300 words in .doc or  .rtf format are to be sent to 
the local representatives of the scientific committee: 
- Giovanni Iamartino, for Italian, English, German and Dutch - 
giovanni.iamartino at unimi.it
- Nadia Minerva, for French - nadia.minerva at unict.it, 
nadia.minerva at unibo.it
- Félix San Vicente, for Spanish and Portuguese - felix.sanvicente at unibo.it 

The deadline for abstracts is the 30th of November 2010, acceptance will 
be notified by the 15th of January 2011. Papers should be 20 mins in 
length, with around 5 to 10 mins allotted for discussion. 

A few invited speakers are being contacted by the scientific committee; their 
names and the titles of the lectures will be given in the second circular.

The scientific committee is composed of the following:
- for CIRSIL, Giovanni Iamartino (Milan), Nadia Minerva (Catania), Félix San 
Vicente (Bologna/Forlì)
- for SIHFLES, Michel Berré (Mons), Marie-Christine Kok Escalle (Utrecht), 
Karène Sanchez (Leyde)
- for APHELLE, Fátima Outeirinho (Porto), Maria José Salema (Minho), Ana 
Clara Santos (Algarve), 
- for SEHEL,Javier Suso López, Mª Eugenia Fernández Fraile (Granada)
- for PHG, Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University & University of Brussels - VUB)

The Milan-based organizing committee is chaired by professor Giovanni 
Iamartino, and is composed by Angela Andreani, Barbara Berti, Kim Grego 
and Andrea Nava.

Conference organization

Gargnano del Garda is a small idyllic village on Lake Garda, which can be 
reached by car or coach. The nearest airports are Milan Linate, Bergamo 
Orio al Serio and Verona: all of these have coach and/or train connections 
to Gargnano. Conference delegates from abroad or from distant places in 
Italy are expected to get to Gargnano on June 5th, as the conference will 
start mid-morning on Monday 6th. It will close on Wednesday 8th at about 
13.00. Details on registration procedure, as well as on accommodation and 
meal options, will be given in the second circular and posted on the 
conference website, which is currently under construction 
(http://users.unimi.it/cirsil_mi). 

We all look forward to meeting you in Gargnano!

Giovanni Iamartino
Nadia Minerva
Félix San Vicente

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