35.800, Calls: Forging Linguistic Identities

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Subject: 35.800, Calls: Forging Linguistic Identities

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Date: 06-Mar-2024
From: Francisco Martinez Ibarra [fmartinezibarra at towson.edu]
Subject: Forging Linguistic Identities


Full Title: Forging Linguistic Identities
Short Title: FLI25

Date: 03-Apr-2025 - 04-Apr-2025
Location: Towson, Maryland, USA
Contact Person: Francisco Martinez Ibarra
Meeting Email: fmartinezibarra at towson.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics;
Language Acquisition; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 01-Dec-2024

Meeting Description:

The Department of Languages, Literatures & Cultures at Towson
University announces the 8th edition of “Forging Linguistic
Identities” and invites proposals for papers. The conference seeks to
examine language as socially embedded within historical and
geo-political contexts.

Call for Papers:

Possible topics might include, but not be limited to:
•       National reception of dialect/minority-language literature and
verbal culture
•       Dialects/diglossia and their role in group identity formation
•       The standardization of national and/or majority language(s)
and its impact on national or regional politics
•       Multilingualism and its negotiation and practice by the
communities of use
•       Use(s) of indigenous languages under transnational states
•       Migration
•       Translation studies
•       Raciolinguistics
•       Language policy and planning
•       Language and healthcare
•       Translanguaging

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Christine Mallinson, Professor of Language, Literacy, and Culture,
Director of the Center for Social Science Scholarship, and Affiliate
Professor of Gender and Women Studies at the University of Maryland,
Baltimore County.
Dr. Rachel Showstack, Associate Professor of Spanish and Linguistics
at Wichita State University.

The scope of the conference is not limited by region, language, or
time period.  Proposals involving languages taught by the Department
of Languages, Literatures & Cultures (American Sign Language, Arabic,
Chinese, French, German, Ancient Greek, Biblical and Modern Hebrew,
Italian, Japanese, Latin, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish and Swahili)
are especially encouraged.  Proposals are welcomed across disciplines,
from scholars of languages and literatures, education, geography,
history, psychology, anthropology, and sociology.  Please send an
abstract of 250 words, excluding references, by email to: Prof.
Francisco Martínez Ibarra (fmartinezibarra at towson.edu). In your
email, please include your name, institution affiliation, and email
address.  Please note that Conference papers must be in English and
limited to 20 minutes.

Proposals for panels with multiple speakers are also welcomed provided
they fit within the 90-minute time frame of each session. Panel
proposals should be submitted as a single file containing all three
abstracts, each limited to 250 words, along with a list of
participants, including their affiliations and email addresses.

Faculty at all ranks, as well as graduate students, are encouraged to
participate. We will offer discounted hotel rooms near campus, and a
graduated scale of conference fees.

Deadline for submissions is December 1, 2024.



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