33.1185, Summer Schools: ''The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century'' / United Kingdom

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Subject: 33.1185, Summer Schools:  ''The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century'' / United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 02 Apr 2022 22:53:29
From: Karen Corrigan [k.p.corrigan at ncl.ac.uk]
Subject: ''The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century'' / United Kingdom

 "The Empire Speaks Back in a Postcolonial Dialect: Decolonising English Linguistics for the 21st Century"

Host Institution: Newcastle University
Website: http://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-summer-school/

Dates: 04-Jul-2022 - 08-Jul-2022
Location: Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom

Focus: This Summer School is designed to encourage participants to rethink global Englishes from decolonising and raciolinguistic perspectives. This will entail drawing important distinctions between Settler Englishes of the type found in New Zealand and other dialects which have instead evolved in colonial contexts. In the postcolonial Englishes of newly independent nations such as India, it is the indigenous languages which are regularly not given the credit they deserve for playing a key role in differentiating these varieties from Settler Englishes both structurally and socially. The “Empire Speaks Back” Summer School offers presentations, workshops and social activities that seriously engage with the colonial and settlement histories of diverse World Englishes with a view to questioning and reshaping how they can best be modelled by the next generation of researchers.
Minimum Education Level: BA


Description:
>From July 4th-7th 2022, all participants will be actively involved in three kinds of learning opportunity – Presentations, Workshops and Pop-Up Mentoring slots. Presentations will be delivered by leading scholars in postcolonial Englishes around the world. They also have expertise in novel approaches to our understanding of these varieties as products of colonialism, empire and racism. Workshops will provide opportunities to acquire practical skills and expertise for coding, transcribing, visualizing and statistically analysing linguistic data. There will also be hands-on sessions exploring manuscript materials relevant to the history of English and postcolonialism. The importance of acquiring expertise in how to exploit your research to benefit wider publics will be demonstrated in our on-site Digital Kitchen which has been used to teach languages using motion sensor technology. Every early career researcher needs to understand how to navigate the job market. As such, one of the
workshops will be devoted to preparing for the next steps in your career. Pop-Up Mentoring slots will be offered as one-time, no strings attached, mentoring sessions that give you the chance to have an informal chat with a mentor about your career, impact or research plans outside of your official support system.


Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics


Subject Languages: English, Old


Language Families: Germanic

Financial Aid: Applications accepted until 30-Apr-2022
ISLE has made available a limited number of Bursaries for Postgraduates/Early Career Researchers who wish to attend in person. We will thus not exclude applications from non-faculty scholars who have already earned their PhD, but those who have not yet earned their PhD will be prioritized. Additionally, we recognize that some groups are significantly underrepresented in English Linguistics, and that it will enrich those fields and society to remedy such imbalances, therefore we will hold matters of diversity, inclusion, and access at the forefront of our selection process. The Bursary consists of a fixed sum to partly cover the tuition fee, travel cost and accommodation. If you are selected to receive a Bursary, once your in-person registration is confirmed, we will request that ISLE process the payment upon supply of valid receipts and banking details to the ISLE Treasurer,
treasurer at isle-linguistics.org.

Financial Aid Instructions:
Please send your Bursary application consisting of the 2 sets of documents below as a .docx or .pdf attachment to president at isle-linguistics.org on or before 30th April 2022. We will inform you about the outcome of your application as soon as possible thereafter. Please provide the following information:
A copy of your current CV with your:
- Name
- Affiliation
- Country of residence
- Employment type (unemployed/part-time/full-time)
- Approximate monthly income (in €, £ or US$)
- Ensure that your CV also notes any relevant publications, presentations, research experience, relevant coursework, extracurricular, and/or outreach activities.

A personal statement (no more than 1 A4 page). Please address the following elements:
- Financial position.
Eligibility for funding from your home university or third party
 Yes. How much (in €, £ or US$)?:
 No
Expected travel cost (in €, £ or US$):
- Motivation to attend. This could include detailing specific workshops that you are interested to participate in, and why.
- Academic/research. A clear statement of your research project or interests, and how it stands to benefit from participation in an ISLE Summer School on the theme of decolonisation; your current programme and level of study (e.g. what year of graduate/undergraduate studies); your specialization or major; relevant research experience; etc.
-  Diversity. An indication of whether and how you see your participation increasing diversity, inclusion, and access in English Linguistics. This could include commenting on: whether you are based in a low to middle income country; are a member of a group historically underrepresented (e.g. based on gender, race, class, first generation higher education); your participation in activities designed to increase diversity, inclusion and access; your sensitivity to relevant issues; etc.


Registration: 01-Apr-2022 to 01-Jul-2022

Contact Person: Karen Corrigan
                Email: ISLE22SummerSchool at newcastle.ac.uk

Apply on the web: https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-summer-school/

Registration Instructions:
- virtual participation (register @ https://www.isle-linguistics.org/activities/isle-summer-school/registration-for-virtual-participation-in-isle-summer-school-2022)

- on-site participation (register @ https://webstore.ncl.ac.uk/conferences-and-events/faculty-of-humanities-social-sciences-hass/school-of-english-literature-language-and-linguistics/international-society-for-the-linguistics-of-english-summer-school-2022)



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