Conference:

[Harold F. Schiffman]

Jewish Languages, Identities, and Cultures

Date: 18-Feb-2007 - 19-Feb-2007
Location: Washington, DC, USA
Contact: Deborah Schiffrin
Contact Email: schiffrd at georgetown.edu
Meeting URL: http://pjc.georgetown.edu/events.html


Meeting Description:

The Symposium will examine how Jews have been making and remaking
identities and cultures through language and other symbolic media over
time, across place and within genres. For Jews, relationships among
language, identity and culture have been reshaped, and have been reshaping
one another, for thousands of years. Each one of these different facets of
Jewish life has been woven and rewoven together over time and across the
many different places where Jews have lived (from ancient Israel, the wide
ranging Diaspora in Europe, Asia and the Americas, to modern Israel).
Likewise, Jewish representations of selfhood, nation and culture appear
within a wide variety of genres ranging from religious texts to oral story
telling, oral history, fiction, drama and music, each of which provides
different formal and performance options for weaving language together
with identity and culture.

A conference on Transcending Boundaries: Jewish Languages, Identities, and
Cultures to be held February 18-19, 2007 at Georgetown University,
Washington, DC.

Conference schedule and on-line registration are at
http://pjc.georgetown.edu/events.html.

http://linguistlist.org/issues/18/18-386.html

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