31.370, Calls: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 31.370, Calls: Applied Linguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2020 14:56:39
From: Colin Reilly [colin.reilly at essex.ac.uk]
Subject: BAAL LIA SIG Annual Conference 2020 - African languages and social change: Politics, activism, and justice

 
Full Title: BAAL LIA SIG Annual Conference 2020 - African languages and social change: Politics, activism, and justice 

Date: 15-May-2020 - 15-May-2020
Location: Leeds, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Colin Reilly
Meeting Email: Colin.Reilly at essex.ac.uk
Web Site: https://liasig.wordpress.com/annual-conference-2020/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 28-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The ways in which language can be used as a tool for social change intersect
with political issues and other forms of social activism (such as gender
equality, climate justice, and minority rights). This emerges at a variety of
levels such as: how individuals organise themselves during action; how we
understand and discuss key issues; and how struggles for justice can be
effectively communicated at local, regional, national, and international
levels.

The 2020 LIA Annual Meeting aims to bring together researchers to present and
discuss current research on the role of language and languages – at the levels
of policy, planning, education, social practice and literature – in
contributing towards social change within Africa and the African diaspora.

Language can be used as a tool of oppression, to marginalise communities by
repressing their languages. It can also be a powerful tool for liberation and
positive change, to promote diversity and inclusion, to allow individuals and
groups to be represented and share their experiences and voices. This
conference will provide an opportunity to explore what determines whether
language is used as a tool for oppression or liberation: concerns might
include who is using language; how they are using it; and what language(s) are
being used?

One salient area of discussion focusses on linguistic human rights. Ensuring
that individuals and communities are given linguistic rights allows them to
access and effectively engage with health services, legal services, education,
economic opportunities, community and political activities. Denying these
linguistic rights is discriminatory, and is fundamentally a human rights
issue. In complex, multilingual contexts, how can individuals, groups and
institutions secure and protect linguistic rights?

The primary objective of the meeting is to explore what current research has
to say on how languages in Africa are entangled in the struggle between social
change and oppression.


Call for Papers: 

Abstracts of up to 250 words for 20 minute presentations are now invited, to
be sent to Dr Seraphin Kamdem, Convenor, at: jk58 at soas.ac.uk and cc Dr Colin
Reilly colin.reilly at essex.ac.uk no later than February 28th 2020.  We also
invite proposals for posters. As in previous years, it may be possible for
participants to deliver their papers via Skype from Africa.

Sub-Themes: Topics for papers could consider (among other things):

-Language and human rights
-Language and gender equality
-Language and the UN Sustainable Development Goals
-Language activism and revitalisation
-Language policy within institutions
-Language and political rhetoric
-Language and climate justice
-Language rights and refugees
-Language and cultural diversity
-Language and socio-cultural integration in the diaspora
-Language and decolonisation

Visa Information: 

If you require a visa to attend the conference please note this when
submitting your abstract and submit  it as soon as possible. The organising
committee will aim to review your abstract quickly to allow time for visa
applications. Please let us know if you will require a letter of support,
which we are able to provide.




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