30.3315, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Subject: 30.3315, Calls: Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Acquisition, Psycholing, Socioling/USA

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Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 06:26:54
From: Seyma Toker [st977 at georgetown.edu]
Subject: Georgetown University Round Table 2020

Full Title: Georgetown University Round Table 2020 
Short Title: GURT 2020 

Date: 13-Mar-2020 - 15-Mar-2020
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact Person: Seyma Toker
Meeting Email: gurt at georgetown.edu
Web Site: https://gurt.georgetown.edu/current-conference-info/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Psycholinguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Oct-2019 

Meeting Description:

GURT 2020 Multilingualism: Global South and Global North Perspectives
March 13-15, 2020
Georgetown University, Washington D.C.

Organizers:

Anna De Fina & Lourdes Ortega (Initiative for Multilingual Studies, Georgetown
University)
Co-Organizers
Elizabeth Lanza & Unn Røyneland (MultiLing Center for Multilingualism in
Society across the Lifespan, University of Oslo)
(through an INTPART project by the Research Council of Norway and the
Norwegian Agency for International Cooperation and Quality Enhancement in
Higher Education)

Background to the Theme:

The world has always been predominantly multilingual, but in recent decades
globalization and the attendant processes of mobility and technologization
have catapulted multilingualism into unprecedented levels of public and
academic attention. Benefits of multilingualism are actively investigated
across neurocognitive, academic, economic, and social domains. At the same
time, misunderstanding and mismanagement of multilingualism have also been
shown by research to curtail the educational, socioeconomic, and personal
opportunities of multilingual individuals, families, and communities. Today’s
multilingualism can be the site for overt and covert oppression, a lived
experience that is a gift for some and a curse for others, patterning along
structural forces related to inequitable distribution of material and symbolic
resources in the world, and rooted in histories of (post)colonial domination
and human mobility. In light of these paradoxes, research must be able to
account for both multilingual learning and multilingual practices at different
nested levels – societies, schools and classrooms, communities and families,
minds and brains – while never losing sight of material, ideological, and
geopolitical inequities. Moreover, the dynamics of multilingualism can vary
across diverse Global South and Global North contexts in ways that create
resonances and differences and demand innovative research lenses. 

Reflecting this complex agenda, GURT 2020 will focus on the relation between
multilingual learning and multilingual practices, globalization, and social
justice with two goals:
(a) to bring together research on multilingualism spanning the full spectrum
of psycholinguistic-cognitive and sociolinguistic-critical approaches and 
(b) to facilitate dialogue about multilingualism as it is lived and
investigated across diverse contexts in the Global North and the Global South.

Plenary Speakers:

Opening Plenary, Friday at 9:00-10:00 am: Cristina Sanz, Georgetown
University, USA
Plenary Friday 2:00-3:00 pm: Ana Deumert, University of Cape Town, South
Africa
Plenary Friday 5:45-6:45 pm: Pia Lane, University of Oslo, Norway
Plenary Saturday 9:00-10:00 am: Emanuel Bylund, Stockholm University &
Stellenbosch University, Sweden/South Africa
Plenary Saturday 5:45-6:45 pm: Sinfree Makoni, The Pennsylvania State
University, USA
Closing Plenary, Sunday 9:00-10:00 am: Ofelia Garcia, CUNY Graduate Center,
USA

Call for Papers:

At GURT 2020, we welcome proposals about multilingualism and multilinguals
across varied geopolitical contexts and spanning the widest possible range of
methodologies, epistemologies, and fields. The presentations may be empirical
or conceptual. We are keen to offer a rich program that explores phenomena at
different nested levels – societies, schools and classrooms, communities and
families, minds and brains – and that probes how the dynamics of
multilingualism can vary across diverse Global South and Global North
contexts.

We accept four types of proposals: individual presentations, posters,
workshops, and roundtable discussions.

IMPORTANT DATES:
Deadline for proposal submissions: 
October 15, 2019, 11:59 pm Pacific Time. 

Notifications of acceptance:  
November 10, 2019. 

With the acceptance, GURT 2020 will furnish an official letter to all accepted
international presenters for the purpose of processing a Visa if needed to
enter the USA.

Please visit the GURT website for submission details:
https://gurt.georgetown.edu/submission/#

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