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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Dear Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Michelle O’Toole and I are convening a panel '<a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7140"><span style="color:purple">Language
movements: Endangerment, revitalisation, and social transformation</span></a>' at <a href="https://www.aasconf.org/2018/home"><span style="color:purple">AAS2018</span></a> (annual meetings of the Australian Anthropological
Society whose 2018 theme is ‘Life in an Age of Death’). <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">We welcome paper proposals from colleagues in linguistics or anyone involved in a linguistically-oriented social movements. Please see panel details
below and submit your abstract by 16 July via <a href="https://nomadit.co.uk/aas/aas2018/conferencesuite.php/panels/7140"><span style="color:purple">the conference website</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">If you have any questions about the panel or your proposal, please send us an email.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Best regards,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">Debra McDougall</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#212121">and on behalf of Michelle O’Toole</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:#212121"> </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Language movements: Endangerment, revitalisation, and social transformation</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Convenors:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Dr Debra McDougall (University of Melbourne) </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Michelle O’Toole (La Trobe University)</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Short abstract: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Amidst discourses of language death, this panel focuses on social movements aimed at revitalising or reforming language. We ask how people seek to transform
their lives by transforming their languages. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Long abstract: </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Among the many manifestations of human creativity that seem to be under threat today are languages. Predictions of language death have prompted linguists
and others to document languages they fear may not survive the onslaught of globalisation. Scholars and laypeople alike are seeking to revitalise moribund languages or relearn the languages of their ancestors. Often, though, discourses of language endangerment
focus primarily on the health of language, not the lives of the people who are remembering or forgetting old languages and embracing or inventing new languages. In this panel, we explore questions including, how is the flourishing of a language related to
the flourishing of a community? How do linguistic practices shape or constrain socio-economic mobility or a sense of belonging? How are people seeking to transform their lives by transforming their languages? Or, how are changes in language transforming their
lives in ways they may not recognise? We invite papers that focus on the revitalisation of small languages, the development of new linguistic repertoires, or negotiations around national or global languages. While the specific focus of the panel is language movements,
the broader aim is to foster new conversations among anthropologists interested in any aspect of the social dynamics of language. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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