30.1021, Calls: Anthro Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Finland

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Subject: 30.1021, Calls: Anthro Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Typology/Finland

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Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2019 23:53:08
From: Olesya Khanina [olesya.khanina at gmail.com]
Subject: Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Role of Water Transit Points in Past Societies

 
Full Title: Interdisciplinary Symposium on the Role of Water Transit Points in Past Societies 
Short Title: Down by the water 

Date: 06-Nov-2019 - 08-Nov-2019
Location: Helsinki, Finland 
Contact Person: Olesya Khanina
Meeting Email: olesya.khanina at gmail.com
Web Site: https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 30-Apr-2019 

Meeting Description:

Waterways have been key factors in the development of societies from
prehistoric times to nowadays, particularly due to their role as vectors for
cultural interactions, material exchange, and transmission of knowledge. The
fluidity of these highways of transport and communications is tightly linked
to the presence of transit points: spaces with unique geographical
characteristics that acted as nodal points between different communities.
Transit points are thus defined as places of intense social contacts, putting
objects of physical geography into the domain of social sciences and
humanities.

The subject is challenging, as many activities that happen in the aquatic
spaces seldom leave substantial archaeological traces behind due to the nature
of the activities (for example, some actions take place on board vessels), or
the inaccessibility of the archaeological remains (for example, submerged or
silted spaces). In some instances, the location might have been obscured by
lack of remains, but the impact of those interactions is visible in other
ways, such as nautical technology or language exchanges.

Rivers are particularly relevant to language exchanges, as they have been
crucial in defining language contact areas in such diverse parts of the world
as Amazonia, Northern Europe, and Siberia, among others: in some cases,
riverside locations are known to be areas of linguistic similarity resulting
from long-term exchange relations between speakers of unrelated languages or
from a population spread along a river path. In other areas, riverside
locations can be areas of the most linguistic diversity if they serve as a
marketplace to which temporarily gather representatives of the otherwise
geographically distant language communities.

By engaging with interdisciplinary theoretical approaches like the maritime
cultural landscape, boat biographies, or language contact studies, researchers
will be able to recognize the impact of maritime or fluvial cultures onto
their social framework and bring a balance to the narratives of the past in
regions with amphibious landscapes.
This conference seeks to challenge the interaction between models and
particular case studies. To this aim, we would like to invite proposals from
scholars conducting research in different fields whose focus is human
activities in rivers, sea-river, and coastal transit points with a broad
geographic and chronological perspective. With this interdisciplinary
approach, we expect to demonstrate what can be achieved by changing the
research paradigm to one that fully embraces the nuances of the aquatic world,
and specially the intricate connection between water spaces and humans.

Plenary Speakers:

Himanshu Prabha Ray (Jawaharlal Nehru University),
Christoph Schäfer (University of Trier),
Rik Van Gijn (University of Zurich),
Crystal El Safadi (University of Southampton)

Organizing Committee:

Elisabeth Holmqvist-Sipilä, HCAS 
Olesya Khanina, HCAS/ Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
Emilia Mataix Ferrandiz, HCAS
Veronica Walker Vadillo, HCAS


Call for Papers:

Suggested topics:

- Port and harbour communities
- Trade and economics at transit points
- Human-environment interactions along waterways
- Nautical technology and design: exchanges and group identity
- Linguistic dispersal through waterways
- Language contact and waterways
- Multilingualism along major rivers

Prospective presenters are requested to submit an abstract in a .docx file
containing:

- Title of the presentation
- Name of the presenter
- Email and affiliation
- Abstract of no more than 250 words.
- Keywords

Submission deadline: 30 April 2019
Submissions should be made to: downbythewater68 at gmail.com
Further inquiries should be made to:
Veronica Walker Vadillo at veronica.walker at helsinki.fi (general issues) or
Olesya Khanina at olesya.khanina at gmail.com (linguistic issues)




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