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1) Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic

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Date: 19 Nov 2011
From:Paula Santillán <psgrimm at casaarabe-ieam.es>
Subject:V Int Conf on Moroccan Arabic

· CALL FOR PAPERS ·

Event: V International Congress on Moroccan Arabic: From Orality towards Teaching

Dates: April, 27 and 28 2012

Location: Casa Árabe, Madrid (Spain) (www.casaarabe.es)

Registration deadline: December, 15 2011 (early bird) & April, 20 2012
Abstract submission deadline: 1 February 2011 

Email:  <mailto:VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es> VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es
Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b
Organization: Autonomous University of Madrid and Casa Arabe

1. About the Congress 

Nowadays the Moroccan population in Spain surpasses 750,000 people. This situation poses a challenge in terms of the language that this social group communicates in as well as several other social matters related to them. In Spain, during the last few years the demand for learning Moroccan Arabic has increased markedly in a number of areas of the society. In Morocco, meanwhile, university professors, public school teachers, pedagogues, and other professionals related to the field of education have expressed the need for an instruction –at least at the primary school level- in the mother tongue, i. e., Moroccan Arabic or Berber. 

This situation is being tackled in two ways. On the one hand, huge efforts are being made in order to standardize the language with reference to both the writing system and its structure. This process of standardization is based on texts that are compilations, translations from foreign languages, or originally authored texts. On the other hand, in Spain the experts in the field have published a number of teaching materials for learning Moroccan Arabic in attendance of the demands of the Spanish citizens who, motivated by job, personal or other goals, feel the need to learn this language. 

2. Main Topics 

- Teaching and learning Moroccan Arabic.
- Linguistic studies from a dialectal or sociolinguistic perspective. 
- The standardization and normalization of Moroccan Arabic.
- The schooling of Moroccan children in Spain.
- Cross-culturality.
- Language policy-making.
- Ethnography of communication.
- Literary translation and edition.

3. Keynote Speakers

- Prof. Abderrahim Youssi - Mohammed V University, Rabat, Morocco. 

Lecture: Either the camel dies, or the teacher, or the Sultan: The equation of literacy, ideology, and politics in the Maghreb.

- Prof. Jan Hoogland – Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and professor at Radboud University in Nijmegen, Holland. 

Lecture: Towards a standardized orthography of Moroccan Arabic based on best practices and common ground among a selection of authors.

- Prof. Francisco Moscoso - Autonomous University of Madrid

Lecture: El árabe de Ceuta. Argumentos para su cooficialidad.

The comlpete program will be posted one month before the congress. 

4. Registration 

Before December 15, 2011 (early bird):  Regular fee 40€ / Reduced fee 20€.

>From December 16, 2011 until April 20, 2012: Regular fee 50€ / Reduced fee 25€.

Students and unemployed people are elegible to pay the reduced fee provided that they submit the required documentation (students: official registration form from an academic institution; unemployed: unemployment card). Candidates selected to present a paper are also eligible for the reduced fee.

The registration fees should be transfered to the following bank account (Barclays Bank): 

National transfer: 0065 0104 11 0001057323
International transfer: IBAN: ES23 0065 0104 11 0001057323

                       BIC/SWIFT: BARCESMM

The following data must be specified on the bank receipt or transfer order: ‘V CIAM + first name + last name’. The receipt will then be emailed (in pdf format) to the following address:  <mailto:VcongresoAM at arabemarroqui.es> VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es.

A certificate of attendance will be given to those who attend at least 80% of the event. The organizing committe is trying to reach an agreement with the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and the Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha in order for the students to be able to obtain a one-credit recognition for attending the congress.

There will be no refund of the regsitration fees.

5. Abstract guidelines 

Applicants must submit abstracts of no more than 350 words (not including references) in pdf format. The name of the applicant should not be written on the abstract but on the body of the email to which s/he will attach the pdf.

Asbtracts must be submitted in two languages: Spanish and English or French. The scientific committee will evaluate them and will select those that will be presented at the congress.

The deadling for submitting an abstract is February 1, 2012. The email address to which aplicants must send the abstract is:  <mailto:VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es> VcongresoAM2012 at arabemarroqui.es. 

The organizing committee will notify the candidates of the selection of their papers maximum 15 days after the abstract submission deadline.

The selected candidates should pay the reduced registration fee (25€) and will have to email a copy of the bank transfer (pdf format) maximum 15 days after the announcement of having being selected to participate at the congress.

6. Organizing committee

Francisco Moscoso García, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Paula Santillán Grimm, Casa Árabe, Spain

7. Scientific committee:

Victoria Aguilar, University of  Murcia, Spain
Abdellah Chekayri, Al Akhawayn University in Ifrane, Morocco
Jan Hoogland, Director of the Dutch Institute in Morocco and profesor at the Radboud University
in Nijmegen, Holland
Francisco Moscoso García, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Paula Santillán Grimm, Casa Árabe, Spain


For further information about the congress please visit our facebook page at:  <http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b> http://tinyurl.com/d9a867b


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