30.776, Calls: General Linguistics/Jamaica

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Subject: 30.776, Calls: General Linguistics/Jamaica

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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2019 22:27:36
From: Jo-Anne Ferreira [secretary at scl-online.net]
Subject: The Many Facets of Mervyn Alleyne

 
Full Title: The Many Facets of Mervyn Alleyne 
Short Title: MCA2019 

Date: 07-Jun-2019 - 08-Jun-2019
Location: UWI, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica 
Contact Person: Shyrel-Ann Dean
Meeting Email: sadean74 at hotmail.com
Web Site: http://www.scl-online.net/Conferences/mervyn-alleyne/index.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2019 

Meeting Description:

This conference is designed to commemorate the life and work of Professor
Mervyn Coleridge Alleyne, a distinguished scholar who died on 23 November
2016, aged 83. He is one of the earliest scholars of Caribbean origin to
engage in the discipline of Linguistics and has made original and valuable
contributions to that discipline as well as to a range of others associated
with the study of the Caribbean. The conference will take place at the Mona
campus of The University of The West Indies, the institution with which he had
been associated practically all of his adult life. Please join us in
celebrating the work or our esteemed professor, Honorary Member of both LSA
and the Society for Caribbean Linguistics. 

Mervyn Alleyne, as one of the earliest scholars of Caribbean origin to engage
in the discipline of Linguistics, aswell as the original and valuable
contribution to that discipline as well as to a range of others associated
with thestudy of the Caribbean, is worthy of commemoration. This is
particularly true at the institution with which he has been associated
practically all of his adult life, The University of the West Indies. It has
been the practice at UWI for there to be large scale international conferences
to commemorate the life and work of major scholars atUWI while still alive,
most notably his contemporaries at the institution, Rex Nettleford and Edward
Kamau Braithwaite. None was held for Mervyn, a clear indictment of us in the
discipline at UWI, since the University of Puerto Rico did hold one in his
honour during 2011. Having a series of activities culminating in a conference
would serve to associate Mervyn’s work with his academic and professional
base, UWI, and pull together the entire range of his scholarly contributions
in a form which makes it accessible to coming generations and to the world.


Call for Papers:

It is a pleasure to invite you to Mervyn Alleyne Commemorative Conference. The
conference is organized by the University of the West Indies, Mona, St.
Augustine and Cave Hill, Departments of the Faculty of Humanities and
Education, under the One UWI Initiative. It will take place at the UWI Mona
Campus from 7 to 8 June 2019. 

“The Many Facets of Mervyn Alleyne” conference covers a wide range of themes,
all of which were of keen interest to him. 

Topics of interest:

Creole Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Race and Colour
Folklore Studies
Ethno-Botany
Discourse in Medical Contexts
Linguistics in Education 
Technology and Communication

Guide for Authors:

The deadline to submit abstracts is 28 February 2019.
To submit your abstract, please click on the following link:
http://linguistlist.org/easyabs/mcalleyne2019

2019 Organising committee

Celia Blake  (Mona)
Hubert Devonish (convenor)
Joseph Farquharson (Mona)
Jo-Anne Ferreira (St Augustine)
Korah Belgrave (Cave Hill)
Kadian Walters (Mona)
Shyrel Ann Dean (Assistant to Organising Group) 

For abstract submission queries, please contact: Email:
celia.blake at uwimona.edu.jm   

For all general enquiries, please contact: Email: sadean74 at hotmail.com

We look forward to seeing you at the Mervyn Alleyne Commemorative Conference.




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