32.1343, Calls: Albanian, Arbëreshë; Gen Ling/Albania
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Subject: 32.1343, Calls: Albanian, Arbëreshë; Gen Ling/Albania
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Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2021 19:39:16
From: Sebastian Drude [drude at xs4all.nl]
Subject: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25th Annual Conference: Endangered Languages and Diaspora
Full Title: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25th Annual Conference: Endangered Languages and Diaspora
Short Title: FEL XXV (2021)
Date: 16-Dec-2021 - 19-Dec-2021
Location: Tirana, Albania
Contact Person: Eda Derhemi
Meeting Email: edmond.cane at qspa.gov.al
Web Site: https://europe.illinois.edu/news-events/2020-21-initiatives/conference-foundation-endangered-languages
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Albanian, Arbëreshë (aae)
Call Deadline: 15-May-2021
Meeting Description:
The Foundation for Endangered Languages and The Center for Research and
Publication on Arbëresh (QSPA) in collaboration with the University of Tirana
cordially invite international scholars, institutions, and community members
working on the revitalization of endangered languages and their documentation
and archiving, to contribute to the International Conference on “Endangered
Languages and Diaspora”, which will take place in Tirana, Albania, on 16-19
December, 2021. While this is planned as a face-to-face conference, with a
possibility of virtual connection for some papers, contingencies are also
planned if the pandemic security in December does not allow physical
attendance by scholars and activists. We would then reformulate our program as
a virtual conference, and we inform you of the change. Accepted papers will be
published by QSPA before the conference and will be ready for distribution
during the event. There are plans for another peer reviewed publication of
selected papers.
Conference Main Theme:
This year’s focus is on the interface between linguistic endangerment and
Diaspora. We invite theoretical and empirical studies that investigate
phenomena emerging in this interface. From about 7000 languages spoken today
in the world, about half are expected to die by the end of this century, with
those most endangered already losing functions and speakers every week. Many
of them are languages of diasporic communities. We welcome studies by scholars
from multiple disciplines and methods, and also reports by activists, that
examine the state of endangered languages in the linguistic, cultural,
religious, ethnic and political ecosystems of diasporas, especially with
regard to the proximity/distance between the communities and countries of
origin. The emphasis is on linguistic endangerment as it relates to diaspora
communities perceived either traditionally, as crystallized, physically
“dwelling” in a country away from the homeland; or, in a novel sense,
perceived as fluid, hybrid, “travelling”, transnational entities. This
conference is not about the theoretical study of diaspora per se, nor its
conceptualization.
Conference Special Theme:
Promoting research and publications on and for the Arbëresh of Italy is the
mission of QSPA, the center that hosts this conference. The conference will
dedicate a few entire panels to the discussion of the special theme, “The
state and study of Arbëresh as an endangered language”. Therefore,
contributions to this theme are geographically more focused in the areas where
Arbëresh varieties are spoken. However, the special theme examines the same
content as the main theme of the conference: the relation of linguistic
endangerment and diaspora. We solicit contributions on all matters of
endangerment of Arbëresh varieties in relation to diaspora, as well as
descriptive or analytical studies that approach the language from theoretical
or applied perspectives. Studies from multiple disciplines (linguistics,
literary studies, anthropology, historical studies, pedagogical studies etc.)
are welcome.
For practical purposes and to create a space of comparison, in this
conference we will consider “Arbëresh” to cover a group of four related
endangered languages (each consisting of different varieties) that are spoken
in different Mediterranean countries: Arbëresh, Arvanitika, Arbanasi, and
Arnavutçe (AAAA).
Call for Papers:
Types of presentations:
1. Paper presentations (20 minutes); the presenter submits an abstract of
250-350 words by May 15th, and later a written paper of 3000-4000 words (max
10 pages including images and references)
Panels of 3-4 related papers are particularly welcomed. In this case, besides
the abstracts for each of the papers, the submission should include an
introduction of 50 words in which the goal of the panel and the relation among
the papers is explained. One single panelist should make the submission for
the whole group by May 15
2. Reports on progress in the field (10 minutes); the presenter submits an
abstract of 125-200 words by May 15, and a power point or an outline before
the conference
3. Poster presentations; the presenter submits and abstract of 200 words by
May 15, and an outline before the conference
Abstract submission
Submit the abstracts for all the above types of presentations as an email
attachment in one single document in which you include:
a) type of presentation
b) title of presentation (and panel)
c) abstract of presentation (see length above)
d) short bio with your job title, affiliation, and experience
to this address: edmond.cane at qspa.gov.al ---- Please put as email subject “FEL
25 abstract”
Open list of suggested general topics in relation to the main theme of the
conference:
- Forms and factors of language maintenance and language reclamation in the
old diaspora communities
- The role of language maintenance for the identity of diaspora communities
- Communities of endangered diaspora languages and issues of identity and
identification with the origin in old and new narratives
- Language and religion: history of adaptation, transformation, and loss
- Nostalgia for the “old language” and the “old country” as a factor for
maintenance
- Women, mothers, grandmothers - their role in the maintenance and
revitalization of the endangered languages of diaspora
- Rebuilding the broken linguistic and cultural bridge through fact and myth
– linguistic commodification and authenticity in diaspora communities
- Linguistic encounters of new emigrant groups with their old kin diaspora
communities
- The linguistic effects on endangerment of voluntary and grassroots activism
across kin communities
- Producing materials for the endangered languages: issues of codification,
orthography, dictionaries, grammars etc. and the use of old documents vs. new
standards in the process
- Diaspora endangered languages as effective repositories of rare and lost
linguistic features
- The effects of cultural and political ties between host and mother states
on the endangered languages of diaspora communities - Endangered languages
caught among kin-state, kin-minority, and host-state politics
- The endangered languages and the European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages – the role of host and kin states
- Generational linguistic gap and language schools in the new diaspora
- Endangered languages of stateless diaspora communities
Relative to the main theme, we would also like to underline the strong local
ties the main topic of the conference has with old and recent focal cases in
the area of the conference: Albania, the country of the conference, the
Western Balkans, the entire Mediterranean, and Europe at large.
Suggested general topics in relation to the special theme of the conference:
- Measuring Arbëresh (AAAA) endangerment – the state of the language and
differences from village to village
- Factors and agents of maintenance vs. endangerment of Arbëresh (AAAA)
- Case studies on different aspects of endangerment of Arbëresh: domains of
use, functions, and linguistic attitudes (AAAA)
- Documentation vs. revitalization of Arbëresh (AAAA)
- The endangered languages and the European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages – the role of host and kin states (Italy, Albania, Greece and
Turkey)
Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: May 29
Notification of acceptance: June 8
Deadline for submission of papers (first draft): July 25
Deadline for submission of final draft: August 20
Registration starts: August 15
Registration deadline for proceedings' contributors: September 14
Registration deadline for general audience: November 21
Information on registration and conference fees coming soon!
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