[Edling] Online Event - 24 Sep | Does multilingualism need a history? | Aneta Pavlenko

Thu Sep 16 16:13:59 UTC 2021

It looks like they will be posting the meeting link information on their
website shortly before the event.

Francis

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On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 12:13 PM elana shohamy <elana at tauex.tau.ac.il>
wrote:

> Hi Francis
> Is there a zoom address?
> Elana
>
>
> On 15 Sep 2021, at 3:11, Francis M. Hult via Edling <
> edling at lists.mail.umbc.edu> wrote:
>
> 
> 2021 Einar Haugen Lecture
> Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan
> University of Oslo
>
> Sep. 24, 2021 3:15 PM–5:00PM (Oslo time) via Zoom
>
> "Does multilingualism need a history?"
> Professor Aneta Pavlenko
>
> More information:
>
> https://www.hf.uio.no/multiling/english/news-and-events/events/guest-lectures-seminars/einar-haugen-lecture/2021/aneta-pavlenko-does-multilingualism-need-a-history.html
>
>
> Abstract
> One of the many delightful surprises of Einar Haugen’s (1953) landmark
> study of Norwegian language in America is the fact that it begins in 1825,
> nearly a century before the author’s birth.
>
> Using church documents, journalistic accounts, poetry and immigrant
> letters, Haugen recreates social and economic conditions and language
> attitudes on both sides of the Atlantic, linking the changes in language
> maintenance to World War I and the relentless Americanization in its wake.
> It is only in Volume 2 that we get to meet his informants and learn about
> his fieldwork. Today, such diachronic treatments are the prerogative of
> historical sociolinguists and historians. In studies of multilingualism,
> history gets short shrift.
>
> In this lecture, I pay tribute to Haugen’s commitment to history by
> reexamining four tenets often used to justify this neglect:
>
>     Modern multilingualism presents a greater public challenge than ever
> before.
>     Modern language policies are more tolerant.
>     Modern multilingualism is quantitatively different: linguistic
> diversity at the population level is greater, more dense and dispersed than
> ever before.
>     Modern multilingualism is qualitatively different: globalization gave
> rise to ‘increasingly unbounded’ transidiomatic practices.
>
> To judge the validity of the claims, we will take a tour in a time
> machine, starting out in Ptolemaic Alexandria in 323 BC and then making
> short stops in imperial Rome, Norman Palermo, medieval Toledo and London,
> the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, imperial St Petersburg, colonial
> Philadelphia, and the capital of Habsburg Hungary Pressburg-Poszony.
>
> The purpose of each stop is to take a quick look at the nature of the
> local ‘multilingual challenge’ and the state’s response in nine
> institutional domains: (1) administration; (2) courts of law; (3) currency,
> (4) army; (5) religion, (6) education, (7) libraries, (8) commerce and (9)
> public signage.
>
> My hope is to surprise you, to entertain you, to celebrate linguistic
> diversity and to show that by neglecting history in the longue durée we get
> our own multilingualism wrong.
>
>
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