30.1833, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Typology/Finland
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Subject: 30.1833, Calls: Anthro Ling, Historical Ling, Socioling, Typology/Finland
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Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2019 22:13:22
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: 31-May-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
2nd Call for Papers:
This is the second call for papers for the conference ''Down by the water:
Interdisciplinary symposium on the role of water transit points in past
societies'', 5-7 Nov 2019. Note that the deadline has been extended to 31 May
2019.
This is planned as an interdisciplinary conference where one of the four
sessions will be devoted to linguistic perspectives on waterways. We welcome
papers presenting language facts intrinsically connected to waterways, such as
language dispersal through waterways, language contact occurring at water
crossing points, multilingual areas located along rivers, etc. The linguistic
plenary talk will be delivered by Rik van Gijn, who combines qualitative and
quantitative methods to investigate the interconnection between river systems
and languages of South America. Together with his colleagues at the University
of Zurich, he has proposed an approach to identify probable pathways of
language diffusion along the Amazon River network, combining ideas from route
planning (i.e. looking for possible routes of linguistic diffusion along the
river network) and route inference (i.e. testing the possible routes against
evidence from linguistic data).
It would be interesting to see how the relevance of waterways to communities
can shape languages they speak, and to present this connection to colleagues
from other disciplines. Likewise, the hope is that linguists can benefit from
a different perspective on the same object that historians and archeologists
will share during this conference. See a detailed call for on our website:
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/about-2/
Down by the water
Interdisciplinary symposium on the role of water transit points in past
societies
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies, Helsinki, 6-8 November, 2019
https://blogs.helsinki.fi/downbythewater/
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
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