27.3062, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-3062. Tue Jul 26 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.3062, Calls: Anthropological Ling, Ling & Lit, Socioling/USA

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Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2016 11:31:44
From: Sukari Salone [ssalone at scsu.edu]
Subject: America's Southern Cultures and Identities: Language, Customs, Literature

 
Full Title: America's Southern cultures and identities: language, customs, literature. 
Short Title: SCPLC Conference 

Date: 06-Oct-2017 - 06-Oct-2017
Location: Orangeburg, South Carolina, USA 
Contact Person: Sukari Salone
Meeting Email: ssalone at scsu.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Mar-2017 

Meeting Description:

South Carolina State University’s Department of English and The South Carolina
Project on Language and Culture (SCPLC) will host an inter-disciplinary
Conference on October  6, 2017.

Conference Theme:  America’s southern cultures and identities:  language,
customs, literature.  



Call for Papers: 

The organizing committee is soliciting proposals for 20-minute presentations
on topics related to language, culture, dialects, literature, film,
communities, and other  areas that highlight research and documentation
studies on  South Carolina’s cultures and languages as well as Southern
regional cultures, languages and communities.  Please send a 250-300 word
abstract by March 1, 2017.  Please send it via email to ssalone at scsu.edu. 
Please send the following information with the abstract:

1. Name and affiliation of the presenter. 
2. Email address
3. Title of the presentation. 
4. Abstract (approximately 250-300 words) 
5. AV equipment requests, if any. 

Possible topic areas:

- Southern Regional Cultures
- Southern Regional literatures
- South Carolina literatures
- African-American Cultures
- European ethnic communities of The South
- Caucasian-American communities of The South
- Hispanic Cultures/Language Variation within Latino communities
- Jewish Cultures
- Islamic Cultures and Communities
- Native American Cultures
- Gullah/Geechee Cultures and dialects
- Non-standard Southern or South Carolina dialects 
- Regional dialects of South Carolina
- Languages of Native American ethnic groups
- South-Eastern Regional Cultures and Languages
- SC and Southern wedding, reunion, funeral traditions
- Regional language varieties
- Culture through literature
- South Carolina authors
- Culture and language through film
- Culture and language  from the perspective of broadcast and journalism
studies 
- The Geechee Culture and its influence in the Low-country of South Carolina 
(language, food, community)
- Hip Hop: culture or fad?
- Booming Immigrant populations (Islamic, Asian, Indian, Hispanic): Are they
integrated or isolated? 
- The American South and the Global South
- ''Race'' and Region.

We will notify accepted applicants by June 25, 2017. 

*The South Carolina Project on Language and Culture (SCPLC) is a program of
the Department of English and Modern Languages and the College of Education,
Humanities, and Social Sciences, SC State University, Orangeburg, SC.




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