[lg policy] CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations
Harold Schiffman
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CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS: Language and
Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations
AILA Research Network on Language Policy
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*CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS*
*Language and Super-diversity: Explorations and interrogations*
University of Jyväskylä, Finland
June 5-7, 2013
*Invited speakers:*
Michael Silverstein (University of Chicago)
David Parkin (University of Oxford)
Christopher Stroud (University of Western Cape)
Sirpa Leppänen (University of Jyväskylä)
*Invited round-table discussion on Language and Super-diversity:*
Jan Blommaert (University of Tilburg)
Ben Rampton (King’s College)
Karel Arnaut (Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic
Diversity)
Jens Normann Jørgensen (University of Copenhagen)
Robert Moore (Penn Graduate School of Education)
Cecile Vigouroux (Simon Fraser University)
*Deadline for abstracts: *Panel proposals,* *November 15, 2012; paper and
poster proposals, December 15, 2012
*Guidelines for submission:
*http://www.jyu.fi/superdiversity<https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/superdiversity>
The submission link opens on October 1, 2012.
*Description of the conference:*
During the past few decades, the face of social, cultural and linguistic
diversity in societies all over the world has changed radically, producing
complexity of a different kind than what has traditionally been captured in
the notion of multiculturalism. This ‘new’ diversity, or super-diversity
(Vertovec 2007), encompasses a wide range of societal and cultural
transformations that stem mainly from accelerated processes of geocultural
and mediated globalization of the last two decades.
Super-diversity manifests most notably in such demographic and social
changes as the tremendous increase in the categories of migrants, not only
in terms of nationality, ethnicity, language and religion, but also in
terms of motives, patterns and careers as migrants, processes of insertion
into, settling in and interactions with the host societies. It is also
witnessed in the increasing complexity of both physical and virtual spaces
and their compressed and multi-scalar character. It shows in the enhanced
mobility of people and the speed with which they can move between and
access other places. In the same way, communication, the dissemination of
information and the mediation of cultural practices and products are
increasingly characterized by rapidity, simultaneity and ubiquity.
Technologies of communication and information circulation offer new
opportunities for interaction in which identifications are not organized on
the basis of local, ethnic or national categories only but which are
characterized by translocality, connectedness and heterogeneity.
In language use, a crucial effect of super-diversity is that the language
and cultural biographies and repertoires, forms of communication and
interaction between individuals, groups and communities cannot be
presupposed. Language uses are not necessarily tied to national or ethnic
groups or to standard varieties of language. Instead, they encompass a
broad field of less predictable actors, activities and creative energies.
In new combinations and intertwining of stability and instability, reliance
on tradition and established normative orders are tied in with situated
emergent forms of practice.
To capture, describe and explain the forms, processes, practices and
effects of super-diversity, sociolinguists are faced with a multi-faceted
challenge, calling forth a revision of some of their key tools – their
theoretical apparata, methods of data gathering and analytic concepts
(Blommaert and Rampton 2011). The aim of this international conference is
to explore and interrogate the perspective offered by super-diversity, a
perspective which for sociolinguistic study has tremendous heuristic
potential
*References***
Blommaert, J. and Rampton, B. Language and Superdiversity.
*Diversities.*2011, vol. 13, no. 2. UNESCO.
www.unesco.org/shs/diversities/vol13/issue2/art1
Vertovec, Steven. 2007. Super-diversity and its Implications. *Ethnic and
Racial Studies*, 30(6), pp. 1024–1054.
*Call for papers*
This international conference invites scholars to propose topics relevant
to language and super-diversity. These can include (but are not limited
to), both synchronic and historical studies on multilingualism, language
crossing, switching, and mixing, contact-induced language variation and
change, polylanguaging, translanguaging, metrolingualism, new literacies,
language assessment for the determination of origin and citizenship,
language (education) policy, and narratives of cultural belonging and
difference. In terms of settings, the conference welcomes work in
sociolinguistics in different everyday, institutional and educational
settings at mega-cities, small places in centres and margins, as well as in
mediated translocal communicative environments.
Studies on any languages and (inter)disciplinary takes (e.g. linguistics,
sociolinguistics, sociology of language, linguistic anthropology, applied
linguistics, discourse studies, new literacy studies, pragmatics,
ethnography and multi-modality) are welcome.
Young scholars are warmly encouraged to contribute; the conference fee will
be waived for five students from non-EU countries (applications to be
included in the online registration form, to appear on the conference
website).
Submissions are solicited for thematic panels, papers, and posters. Each
participant may have at most two presentations at the conference: one
single-authored and one co-authored paper/poster.
*Instructions to panel organizers *
Panels will have a maximum duration of three hours. The panel can be
thematically organized sessions, but also data sessions are welcome.
The panel organizer needs to make sure that the participants submit their
papers, Power Point presentations or data samples to him/her in advance of
the conference for circulation to all panel members.
Panel organizers should:
· submit a proposal (see below) including the list of invited
contributors and/or discussants by 15 November 2012 and confirm that all
invited contributors have agreed to participate
· coordinate the submission of abstracts by contributors (max. 300
words each) before the same deadline as above;
· chair their panel at the conference
· act as mediators between the contributors and the Conference
Organizing Committee.
*Submitting panel proposals*
Proposals for a thematic panel should be submitted electronically via the
conference website by the panel organizer.
The proposal should include:
· the list of invited contributors and/or discussants (name,
affiliation, email address); a maximum of 8 keywords covering the subject,
methodology and theoretical framework(s)
· all the individual abstracts (of a maximum of 300 words)
- a general overview abstract (maximum of 900 words) for the whole panel
which will include:
- the topic and how it relates to the conference themes;
- rationale for the panel and its aims and objectives;
- discussion questions;
- how the session will be organized (discussion format, number of
papers, discussants/participants); a short list of key references
Abstracts in English should be submitted via ‘submission’ on the conference
website
http://www.jyu.fi/superdiversity
The submission link opens on October 1, 2012.
The deadline for panel submissions is November 15, 2012.
All submissions will be reviewed; notification of acceptance January 15,
2013.
*Papers and posters*
Papers and posters are different forms of presentation but should be of an
equally high quality and discuss original work. Both papers and posters
will be submitted to the same refereeing process. The Organizing Committee
reserves the right to place proposals for papers and posters in either
category in consultation with the reviewers.
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*Submitting a proposal for a paper*
Individual papers will be allocated 30 minutes (20 minutes for presentation
and 10 minutes for questions).
Abstracts in English (max. 300 words) should be submitted via ‘submission’
on the conference website
http://www.jyu.fi/superdiversity<https://www.jyu.fi/en/congress/superdiversity>
The submission link opens on October 1, 2012.
The deadline for paper submissions is December 15, 2012.
All submissions will be reviewed; notification of acceptance February 15,
2013.
* *
*Submitting a proposal for a poster*
Each presenter will be provided with 120 x 90 cm of board space (portrait).
They may also provide handouts with examples or more detailed information.
* *
Abstracts in English (max. 300 words) should be submitted via ‘submission’
on the conference website http://www.jyu.fi/superdiversity
The submission link opens on October 1, 2012.
The deadline for poster submissions is December 15, 2012.
All submissions will be reviewed; notification of acceptance February 15,
2013.
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*Scientific committee ***
Sirpa Leppänen, Karel Arnaut, Dong Jie, Martha Karrebaek, Ben Rampton, Max
Spotti and Cecile Vigouroux
*Local organizing committee ***
Sirpa Leppänen, Mia Halonen, Henna Jousmäki, Samu Kytölä, Mikko Laitinen,
Mika Lähteenmäki, Taina Saarinen, Sonya Sahradyan, Minna Suni, Elina
Westinen,
Conference secretary: Saija Peuronen
Financial secretary: Satu Julin
Event co-ordinator: Taru-Maija Heilala-Rasimov
*Contact:* superdiversity at jyu.fi
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Harold F. Schiffman
Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305
Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138
Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/
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