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1) Subject:Berkeley Lecture Series on Arabic Language and Culture

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Date: 03 Apr 2003
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Subject:Berkeley Lecture Series on Arabic Language and Culture

[I just became aware of this, so even though it is tomorrow, I thought
you might like to know.]

Berkeley Language Center Spring 2003 Lecture Series:

Language, Identity, and Change in the Modern Arab World: Implications
for the Study of Language and Culture

Friday and Saturday, April 4 and 5, 2003
220 Stephens Hall, Geballe Room, Townsend Center

Friday, April 4
1:30-1:45		Opening 	Claire Kramsch - Berkeley
Language Center
1:45-3:00		Session I		Clive Holes - Oxford University
				Social History, Political History,
and Dialect Prestige in the Arab World:
				The Cases of Bahrain, Jordan and Iraq
3:00-3:15 pm	Break
3:15-5:00 pm	Session II	Keith Walters - University of Texas, Austin
				Gender, Nationalism, and Language
Ideology: The Tunisian Case
				Sonia S'hiri - UC Berkeley
				Divided Linguistic Loyalties:
Tunisians Between Francophonie and "Arabism"
				Chair: Penelope Eckert - Stanford University
5:00-6:00 pm	Reception

Saturday, April 5
9:00-10:30 am	Session I		Loukia Sarroub - University of Nebraska
				The Literacy Practices of Yemeni and
Iraqi Youth: Life In and Out of
				School in Dearborn, Michigan and
Lincoln, Nebraska
				Ibrahim Muhawi - Edinburgh University
				Negotiating Palestinian Diaspora:
Translation and the Language of Exile
				Chair: Larry Michalak - UC Berkeley
10:30-10:45 am	Break
10:45-12:30 pm	Session II	Mahmoud Al-Batal - Emory University
				Identity and Language Tension in
Lebanon: The Arabic of Local News on LBC Television
				John Hayes - UC Berkeley
				Arabic and Evolving National
Identities in the Middle East
				Chair: Mark Kaiser - UC Berkeley
12:30-2:00 pm	Lunch break
2:00-3:30 pm	Session III	Mushira Eid - University of Utah
				Language, Gender, and Egyptian Cinema
				Michael Cooperson - UCLA
				Canon-bashing in Early Modern Rhetoric
				Chair: James Monroe - UC Berkeley
3:30-3:45 pm	Break
3:45-5:15 pm	Session IV	Panel Discussion: Implications for
the Study of the Arabic Language and Culture
				Mahmoud Al-Batal, Clive Holes, Loukia
Sarroub, Sonia S'hiri

CONFERENCE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

For information, call 510-642-0767 x 22, email
shiri at socrates.berkeley.edu, or visit http://blc.berkeley.edu

Sponsored by the Berkeley Language Center, the College of Letters and
Science, Berkeley's eight National Resource Centers under a Title VI
grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Center for Middle
Eastern Studies, and the Department of Near Eastern Studies.


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