33.3518, Calls: Yiddish, Eastern; Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Subject: 33.3518, Calls: Yiddish, Eastern; Sociolinguistics/United Kingdom

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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2022 21:40:44
From: Lily Okalani Kahn [yilas3.2023 at gmail.com]
Subject: Yiddish Language Structures 3 - Yiddish in the 21st Century

 
Full Title: Yiddish Language Structures 3 - Yiddish in the 21st Century 
Short Title: YiLaS3 

Date: 27-Mar-2023 - 29-Mar-2023
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lily Okalani Kahn
Meeting Email: l.kahn at ucl.ac.uk
Web Site: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/call-papers-yiddish-21st-century 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)

Call Deadline: 31-Dec-2022 

Meeting Description:

The special theme of the conference (27-29 March 2023) will be linguistic
aspects of contemporary Yiddish.


Call for Papers:

The UCL Departments of Hebrew and Jewish Studies (Lily Kahn and Sonya
Yampolskaya) and Linguistics (Kriszta Eszter Szendrői and Zoë Belk) are
delighted to invite abstracts for the international conference YiLaS (Yiddish
Language Structures) 3: Yiddish in the 21st Century, to be held in person at
University College London, March 27-29, 2023. The conference follows on from
YiLaS 2 held at the University of Düsseldorf in 2019, and YiLaS 1 held at the
University of Regensburg in 2009.

The special theme of the conference will be linguistic aspects of contemporary
Yiddish. These can include but are not limited to present-day Standard
Yiddish, Hasidic and other Haredi types of Yiddish, the relationship between
21st-century Yiddish varieties and historical Eastern European dialects, the
emergence of new linguistic features in Yiddish, and the relationship between
the Yiddish language and Jewish culture. Note that the theme is not exclusory
and contributions on issues relating to historical Yiddish variants are also
welcome. 

It is our intention that the conference will provide a collegial platform for
fruitful discussion and knowledge exchange among specialists in Yiddish
language, linguistics, and culture, as well as in comparative Germanic
linguistics, sociolinguistics (including language variation and change),
language contact, multilingualism, psycholinguistics, and minority and
diaspora languages.

The conference will include the following keynote speakers:

- Isaac L. Bleaman (UC Berkeley) 
- Lea Schäfer (Philipps Universität Marburg)

There will also be a special panel on Hasidic Yiddish in the 21st century
convened by Chaya Nove (UC Berkeley). 

The conference’s cultural programme will include a walk in Hasidic Stamford
Hill and a Yiddish Cabaret with Mendy Cahan (YUNG YiDiSH, Tel Aviv).

Abstracts should be maximum 500 words excluding references and should be
submitted to yilas3.2023 at gmail.com by 31 December 2022. Conference
presentations may be given in either English or Yiddish. We encourage our
presenters to consider delivering their lectures in Yiddish. (Yiddish-language
presentations will be simultaneously translated into English in order to make
them accessible to all.) Please submit your abstract in the language in which
you plan to present. Authors of accepted abstracts will be requested to work
with the organizers to translate their abstract into the other language.
Applicants will receive notification of the outcome of their submission by 15
January 2023. 

Articles based on selected conference papers will be subsequently published in
a peer-reviewed edited volume. We will provide further details in due course.




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