Conference announcement: Sociology of language and religion, UK, June 2002 (various heritage languages)
Scott McGinnis
smcginnis at nflc.org
Fri Feb 8 15:20:29 UTC 2002
Courtesy of Hal Schiffman and the Penn language policy list....
The complex interface between the Sociology of
Language and Religion will be the theme of a colloquium scheduled to be
held at the University of Surrey Roehampton from June 20 to 22, 2002.
Such a colloquium has become necessary in the light
of the debates surrounding issues of ideology and identity triggered by
language and religion in different parts of the world in recent times.
The various discourses that have emerged around the aeroblasting of the
World Trade Centre and The Pentagon in New York and Washington DC
respectively give sanction to these discussions. We recognise this to be
an interdisciplinary project, and therefore expect that the theoretical
and methodological arguments that will drive the discussions will be
diverse.
Twenty-four scholars drawn from around the world will
lead these discussions, which cover several faiths (Christianity,
Judaism, Islam, Bahai, Hinduism, Buddhism, Shamanism and African
Traditional Religions among others) and languages. The lead discussants
include eminent names like Joshua Fishman (Stanford/Yeshiva), John
Joseph (Edinburgh), Yasir Suleiman (Edinburgh), Rajeshwari Pandharipande
(Urbana), Muhammad Amara (Bar-Ilan), Phyllis Chew (NIE Singapore),
Hans-georg Wolf (Humboldt), Anya Woods (Monash),, Nkonko Kamwangamalu
(Natal), Greg Meyjes (Washington DC), Dipo Salami (OAU, Ile-Ife), Lynn
Mario (Sao Paulo) and Chao-Chih Liao (Feng Chia, Taiwan).
It is hoped that the outcome of the colloquium will
facilitate a better understanding and management of social, cultural and
political interrelationships especially in multilingual, multicultural
and multifaith societies.
Lead discussants and titles:
Professor Joshua Fishman (jfishman at aecom.yu.edu,
joshuafishman at yahoo.com)
University of Stanford and Yeshiva University
Title: 'Who says Yiddish is holy and why? On the
sanctification of
profane vernaculars'
Professor Yasir Suleiman (imemyss at srv0.arts.ed.ac.uk)
Director, Edinburgh Institute for the Advanced Study
of
Islam and the Middle East
Title: 'Between Heaven and Earth: Arabic in its
socio-cultural milieu'
Professor John E. Joseph (John.Joseph at ed.ac.uk)
Department of Linguistics, University of Edinburgh
Title: The shifting role of languages in Lebanese
Christian and Moslem identities
Professor Rajeshwari V. Pandharipande (raj at uiuc.edu)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U.S.A.
Title: Many languages, many religions: issues in the
language of religion in India.
Dr. Muhammad H. Amara (khitam at zahav.net.il)
Departments of Political Studies and English,
Bar-Ilan
University, Ramat-Gan, 52900.
Title: The political discourse of the Islamic
Fundamentalist Movement in Israel
Dr. Phyllis Chew (glpchew at nie.edu.sg)
ELAL, NIE, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
Title: Linguistic and religious globalism: a study of
the Bahai Faith
Dr. Chao-Chih Liao (ccliao at nchu.edu.tw)
Department of Foreign Languages, (Feng Chia
University/Taichung Taiwan)
Title: The Sociology of Language in Christianity
versus
Buddhism in Taiwan
Dr. Annabelle Mooney (mooneya at cardiff.ac.uk)
Centre for Language and Communication Studies,
University of Wales, Cardiff
Title: The Sociology of Religion and the Language of
Law: Paternalism and Bed Bugs
Dr. Dipo Salami (Diposalami at hotmail.com)
Department of English, Obafemi Awolowo University,
Ile-Ife, Nigeria
Title: Creating God in our image: attributes of God
in
the Yoruba sociocultural environment.
Professor Nkonko Kamwangamalu, (KAMWANGA at nu.ac.za)
Linguistics Program, University of Natal, Durban
4041,
South Africa
Title: Religion and language maintenance: African
languages in post-apartheid South Africa.
Miss Siti Zuraiyni Yassin (raiyni at hotmail.com)
Centre For The Promotion Of Knowledge & Language
Learning, Universiti Malaysia Sabah.
Title: 'Qawwamuna' in relation to the Malay Muslim
women in Malaysia: The misinterpretation of words in
religious text.
Dr. Hans-Georg Wolf (hans-georg.wolf at rz.hu-berlin.de)
Humboldt University, Berlin
Title: Religion and traditional belief in (West)
African English
Dr. 'tope Omoniyi (skyman at btinternet.com)
School of English & Modern Languages, University of
Surrey Roehampton,
Title: Societal multilingualism, multifaithism and
conflict: Managing national integration in the
context
of multiple identities.
Miss Jeannet Stephen (jeannets at ums.edu.my)
and Miss Junaidah Januin (junnn68 at hotmail.com)
Centre for the Promotion of Knowledge and Language
Learning, Universiti Malaysia Sabah
Title: Language use in religious diversity: Use of
expressions in Islam by non-Muslims in daily informal
interaction.
Mrs. Gella Fishman (joshuafishman at yahoo.com)
Stanford University
Title: Yiddish in the education of Orthodox girls
before and after the holocaust.
Dr. Lynn Mario T. Menezes de Souza
(lynnmario at uol.com.br, mdesouza at usp.br)
University of So Paulo, Brazil
Title: The shamanic book as transformative practice:
language and writing in indigenous communities in
Brazil
Dr. Gregory Meyjes (gmeyjes at usbcn.org)
Director Baha'i Office of Public Information
(Washington DC)
Title: Language and world order in Baha'i
perspective:
Revealing new paradigms
Colloquium Committee:
Professor Jen Coates (j.coates at roehampton.ac.uk)
Dr. Judith Broadbent (j.broadbent at roehampton.ac.uk)
Miss Eva Eppler (e.eppler at roehampton.ac.uk)
Miss Frances Rock (f.rock at roehampton.ac.uk)
Dr. Tope Omoniyi (t.omoniyi at roehampton.ac.uk)
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