29.4936, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Sweden

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LINGUIST List: Vol-29-4936. Wed Dec 12 2018. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 29.4936, Calls: Anthropological Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Sociolinguistics/Sweden

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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2018 01:46:33
From: Karen Ann Blom [karenann.blom at ju.se]
Subject: Multilingualism, Diversity and Democracy Conference 2019

 
Full Title: Multilingualism, Diversity and Democracy Conference 2019 
Short Title: MuDD2019 

Date: 08-Apr-2019 - 10-Apr-2019
Location: Jönköping, Sweden 
Contact Person: Karen Ann Blom
Meeting Email: g-mudd2019conference at groups.ju.se
Web Site: https://ju.se/4.7078f8ef165f93b83dff25.html 

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

Call Deadline: 15-Jan-2019 

Meeting Description:

MuDD2019 is part of a series of conferences/workshops that the CCD research
environment, Communication, Culture and Diversity, has organized since 1998.
Research and societal developmental projects that focus on communication,
diversity, identity and learning have been on the agenda at CCD since the
mid-1990s.

These thematically focused activities are open to senior and junior
researchers and students, and in some activities also to professionals from
different sectors. The themes of MuDD2019 are linked to the long-term work in
the think tank DoIT (Participation and Inclusion) and to some of our ongoing
research projects – most prominently the new research project SLoT (Language,
Learning and Theater) that is being co-conducted with our cross-sectorial
partner Örebro Regional Theater.

Description of Theme:

Issues related to integration and learning goals for all students have been
prioritized areas in education and research during the last few decades. This
has become more critical given the recent demographic shifts related to
immigration and digitalization. Concepts like multilingualism, learning and
democracy have become unstable and, as a result, a plethora of neologisms have
emerged. The three key concepts at MuDD2019 are in need of being revisited
with the intention of being revitalized in relationship to what is being
experienced as emergent communicative practices where multiple
language-varieties and new technologies are involved.

The MuDD2019 international conference will bring together international
experts from across the global-North and the global-South with the intent of
interrogating the continuing dichotomized situation (in particular in
nation-states like Sweden) wherein mono-lingualism and mono-culturalism
constitutes the norm and multilingualism and diversity are seen as the
exception. MuDD2019 also has the potential to create new knowledge of
relevance for present day challenges related to mobility, migration and
communication across virtual-physical spaces. It will bring together senior
and junior scholars from different research disciplines, including
professionals from among other sectors the educational and cultural sectors,
thus allowing for theorizing and bridging the dichotomies between
monodisciplinary research areas and professional fields.

Scientific Committee Chair:

Professor Sangeeta Bagga-Gupta, CCD, JU

Committee Members:

Senior Lecturer Elisabet Sandblom, CCD, JU
Senior Lecturer Anette Almgren White, CCD, JU
CEO Petra Weckström, Örebro Regional Theater;
Associate Professor Ylva Lindberg, CCD, JU
Affiliate Professor Francis M. Hult, CCD, JU

Coordinators:

Dr. Radu Dinu, JU; Sara Goico, JU; Karen Ann Blom, JU


Call for Papers:

Multilingualism, Diversity and Democracy (MuDD) Conference 2019

8-10 April 2019, Jönköping, Sweden

Conference website: https://ju.se/4.7078f8ef165f93b83dff25.html

Programme MuDD2019:

8-9 April: a small-scale research conference with the participation of invited
international featured scholars and peer-reviewed short-listed scholars; this
part of the conference will focus upon theoretical and methodological
questions and empirically framed studies pertaining to the MuDD2019 theme.

10 April: a larger conference workshop which will feature the scholars from
the research conference as well as be open to professionals and scholars;
presentations by some of the senior scholars – primarily from different parts
of the world will be curated by the organizing committee for the purposes of
the conference workshop.

Abstracts (max 500 words) of research studies that are clearly related to the
MuDD2019 themes and aims are solicited. In your application it is important to
clearly state within which portion(s) you wish to participate. 

Your abstract should be structured using the following headings:

(i) a statement of the theoretical and methodological frameworks used,
(ii) the empirical materials explored,
(iii) the research questions focused upon,
(iv) preliminary/final findings of the study, and
(v) how the study relates to the theme of the conference.

Selection:

Papers will be selected following criteria of excellence and novelty. In
addition, dimensions related to gender equality, balance between junior and
senior researchers, and cultural diversity among participants will be aimed
for. Author/s of accepted abstracts will be expected to make available a
full-length draft of their research/studies for discussion at the first and
second conference days of MuDD2019 (see deadline below). Selected papers will
be considered for publication in the open access research report series of the
School of Education and Communication, Jönköping University.

Please submit your abstract to: 
g-mudd2019conference at groups.ju.se




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