29.3305, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-3305. Tue Aug 28 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.3305, Calls: Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 20:46:59
From: Naomi Wells [naomi.wells at sas.ac.uk]
Subject: Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Full Title: Digital Diasporas: Interdisciplinary Perspectives 
Short Title: DD2019 

Date: 06-Jun-2019 - 07-Jun-2019
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Naomi Wells
Meeting Email: naomi.wells at sas.ac.uk
Web Site: https://crosslanguagedynamics.blogs.sas.ac.uk/digital-diasporas/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2018 

Meeting Description:

The Digital Diasporas international conference will take place at Senate House
(University of London) on Thursday 6 and Friday 7 June 2019. Bringing together
leading researchers from across disciplinary boundaries, the conference will
explore the relationship between digital technologies and diasporic
communities, with particular attention to linguistic and cultural diversity.

This conference is funded as part of the translingual strand of the AHRC
‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ project and is led by the
Institute of Modern Languages Research and Digital Humanities at the School of
Advanced Study (University of London).

Invited keynote and panel speakers include [more to be announced]:

Jannis Androutsopoulos (Universität Hamburg); 
Tobias Blanke (King’s College London); 
Alexandra Georgakopoulou (King’s College London); 
Agnieszka Lyons (Queen Mary, University of London); 
Mirca Madianou (Goldsmiths, University of London); 
Sandra Ponzanesi (Utrecht University); 
Roopika Risam (Salem State University); 
Caroline Tagg (The Open University); 
Funda Ustek-Spilda (London School of Economics/Goldsmiths); 
Janet Zmroczek (British Library)

Organising Committee:

Francielle Carpenedo, Doctoral Researcher, School of Advanced Study
Saskia Huc-Hepher, Senior Lecturer in French, University of Westminster
Dong Nguyen, Research Fellow, Alan Turing Institute
Naomi Wells, Research Fellow, School of Advanced Study
Jane Winters, Chair of Digital Humanities, School of Advanced Study

Call for Papers:

Since Appadurai wrote on the intertwined phenomena of electronic media and
migration as disruptive and defining features of modern subjectivity (1996),
the relationship between digital technologies and diasporic communities has
emerged as a critical area of study across a number of disciplines. However,
such research risks remaining isolated within disciplinary silos, often
despite the similar processes, practices and materials studied. This
conference aims to inspire greater dialogue across disciplinary boundaries in
order to develop a richer understanding of the role of the digital in creating
and sustaining diasporic connections and communities, and of how diasporic
groups and individuals transform and shape digital tools and technologies for
their own creative and strategic purposes.

Through this dialogue it is hoped that new transdisciplinary ways of working
may develop which challenge knowledge fragmentation in order to confront the
complexity of the contemporary context of intensified cultural and linguistic
flows and new patterns of human mobility. At the same time, drawing attention
to diasporic narratives and approaches to digital culture and technologies can
function as both critique and challenge to centralised narratives of digital
progress and development often restricted to predominantly Anglophone
contexts.

We especially welcome research which pays attention to the linguistic and
cultural dimensions of digital technologies and media. This is, however, not
restricted to any specific geographical area, language or type of community.
Equally, the digital is intended to encompass the fullest range of digital
practices, materials and technologies, while the conference aims to include
methodological and analytical approaches ranging across, for example,
ethnographic, cultural studies and computational approaches.

Areas of particular, but not exclusive, interest include:

Social media and migration focused research;
Multilingualism and digitally mediated communications;
Histories of the internet and web archives research;
Ethnographies of the internet and uses of digital technologies (including
research combining offline-online methods);
Digital media, cultural and visual studies;
Digital and diasporic cultural memory;
Digitally mapping and visualising migrations and diasporic networks, with
attention to ethical and political concerns.

We invite abstract submissions for 20-minute presentations. Abstracts should
be between 150-300 words in length (the bibliography does not count towards
the word limit). Presentations can be on previously published research or
ongoing projects. We intend to develop a Special Issue or edited volume which
will include an invited selection of the research presented at the conference.
In order to incorporate emerging work in progress, particularly from ongoing
PhD projects, the conference will have space for a smaller number of lightning
research talks of 5-7 minutes for which we also invite abstracts of 100-200
words.

Please submit through EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dd2019

The deadline for submissions is 1 December 2018. Accepted papers will be
confirmed by 1 February 2019.

We also have a small number of bursaries of £100 to contribute towards travel
and/or accommodation costs for postgraduate students or Early Career
Researchers (within 8 years of receiving the PhD) whose submissions are
accepted and who have restricted access to alternative funding for conference
attendance. If you would like to be considered for an award, please attach
with your submission a pdf or word document with a short statement of no more
than 300 words explaining what the benefits of attending the conference would
be for you and your research.

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