Second call: Conference on "Languages of Southeast Asia"

[Doug Cooper]

Deadline for Abstracts:  Nov 3, 2008
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Second Call for Papers
UCLA – UC Berkeley Joint Conference on Southeast Asian Studies
“Languages of Southeast Asia”

Website: http://www.international.ucla.edu/cseas/article.asp?parentid=97038
Location:  University of California, Los Angeles
Dates:  January 30-February 1, 2009

Keynote speakers: Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute / UC Santa Barbara) 
Andrew Simpson (University of Southern California) John Hartmann (Northern 
Illinois University)

The linguistic map of Southeast Asia is extraordinarily rich, embracing a wide 
range of ethnic and typological groups, including Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, 
Mon-Khmer, Tai-Kadai, Tibeto-Burman, and the many language families of New 
Guinea. The shifting boundaries of Southeast Asian polities over time, 
historic cross-regional migration, and colonization have all added to the 
complexity of language genealogies in the region, making Southeast Asia a 
particularly fertile field not only for the study of specific language types 
and groups but also for the testing and development of theoretical frameworks 
and models of linguistic analysis. Recent outward migrations to the US, Europe 
and elsewhere, and the concomitant rise in Hmong, Khmer, Lao, Tagalog and 
other heritage language groups, present further opportunities for the study of 
Southeast Asian languages.

Despite the critical place of language studies in the development of area 
studies, and the diverse implications and applications of linguistics for 
other fields, the conversation between scholars of Southeast Asian linguistics 
and specialists in Southeast Asian area studies is surprisingly thin. And, 
within the U.S., Southeast Asian language communities such as Hmong, Khmer, 
Vietnamese, Lao and Tagalog risk being sidelined in the emerging body of 
scholarship on Heritage Language learning and teaching, whose focus gravitates 
towards larger communities such as Spanish and Chinese speaking communities.

This conference aims to bridge this gap. By providing a forum for 
presentations of new research and the exchange of ideas, we aim to create 
fresh conversations between scholars and teachers of Southeast Asian 
languages.  Building on the 2000 UCLA Conference on Heritage Language Research 
Priorities, we also hope to stimulate new research linkages with scholars and 
teachers working among Heritage language communities.

We invite papers on Southeast Asian languages in any area of 
linguistics­phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, 
typology, diachronic and comparative linguistics, sociolinguistics, 
anthropological linguistics, discourse analysis, conversation analysis­or 
language teaching. We particularly encourage papers that engage with other 
disciplines. Submissions from early career researchers and graduate students 
are strongly encouraged. In addition, a special poster session for 
undergraduate research will be held. Limited competitive financial assistance 
for travel is available.

Abstracts of no more than 500 words should be sent to the UCLA Center for 
Southeast Asian Studies <cseas at international.ucla.edu> by Monday, November 3, 
2008. Include name, affiliation and full contact information. Please indicate 
whether the submission is for a talk or for the undergraduate poster session. 
Notification of acceptance will be sent out by December 1, 2008.

The Center for Southeast Asian Studies at UCLA and the Center for Southeast 
Asia Studies at UC Berkeley are a consortium U.S. Department of Education 
Title VI National Resource Center for Southeast Asian Studies.

For more info please contact:
Barbara Gaerlan
310-206-9163
cseas at international.ucla.edu

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