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Message1: Conceptualizing, Investigating, and Practicing Multilingualism and Multiculturalism
Date:01-Aug-2014
From:Christina Butler ceb252 at georgetown.edu
LINGUIST List issue http://linguistlist.org/issues/25/25-3153.html 


Full Title: Conceptualizing, Investigating, and Practicing Multilingualism and Multiculturalism 

Date: 27-Feb-2015 - 28-Feb-2015
Location: Washington, DC, USA 
Contact Person: Christina Butler
Meeting Email: GUGradConference at gmail.com
Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/gugradconference/ 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 17-Oct-2014 

Meeting Description:

Georgetown University Graduate Student Conference
Conceptualizing, Investigating, and Practicing Multilingualism and Multiculturalism  
February 27-28, 2015

In light of widespread globalization, we are interested in definitions of multi/translingualism, multi/transculturalism, and related terms that move away from essentialized and idealized notions of the nation-state. We are also interested in exploring the critical relationships between how multilingualism/multiculturalism is acquired in educational and other contexts, reflected upon and portrayed in artistic-literary-social media, and acknowledged, valued, or rejected in political and institutional action. Our graduate student conference engages multilingualism and multiculturalism with an explicitly critical orientation in order to refine these terms in light of research and practice in literary and visual cultural criticism, history, linguistics, anthropology, and second/third/foreign language teaching and learning.

Keynote Speakers:

Heidi Byrnes, Georgetown University
Anna De Fina, Georgetown University

Our conference will begin 27 Feb. at 3:00pm and end 28 Feb. at 7:00pm. 

For more information, visit us: https://sites.google.com/site/gugradconference/ 

Call for Papers:

With the publication of the Modern Language Association's 2007 Report ''Foreign Languages and Higher Education: New Structures for a Changed World'', the terms multilingualism and multiculturalism have received heightened attention and been expanded to include the ideas of translingual and transcultural competence. While many scholars have defined multilingualism as the ability to communicate in more than one language (Cenoz, Hufeisen, & Jessner, 2003; Li, 2008), other conceptualizations, particularly those influenced by third language acquisition studies and functional definitions of language, reconceive multilingualism as the ability to use multiple languages as resources contingent upon communicative needs and social contexts (Cenoz, 2013). Even as definitions of multilingualism expand, as seen in scholarly contributions to the Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 33, (2013), it is still refracted most typically through the lens of monolingualism and conceptualized throug!
 h nation-state-centered perspectives (Yildiz, 2012). To address this concern, scholarly work is now exploring such concepts as transculturalism and -lingualism, which are being defined as the studies of power relationships/formations and meaning-making in language throughout history as one acknowledges the multiplicity of one's identity and position in the nation state (Cuccioletta, 2002; Lewis, 2002). Within this field, scholars (e.g., Appadurai, 1996; Bhaba, 1990; Mani, 2007; Seyhan, 2001) explore aesthetics, political claims, and such phenomena as cosmopolitan citizenship that unsettle concepts of home, belonging, and culture, which can redress the ruptures in history, collective memory, and language. In light of widespread globalization, we are interested in definitions of multi/translingualism, multi/transculturalism, and related terms that move away from essentialized and idealized notions of the nation-state (Cook, 1992; Kramsch, 2014). We are also interested in expl!
 oring the critical relationships between how multilingualism/culturali
sm is acquired in educational and other contexts, reflected upon and portrayed in artistic-literary-social media, and acknowledged, valued, or rejected in political and institutional action.

Keeping these foci and associated challenges in mind, our conference engages multilingualism and multiculturalism with an explicitly critical orientation in order to refine these terms in light of research and practice in literary and visual cultural criticism, history, linguistics, anthropology, and foreign language teaching and learning.

Possible topics for 20-min. presentations include but are not limited to:

- Pedagogical practices and implications of multilingualism/culturalism
- Multi/transcultural and multi/translingual practices and representations in literature, film, visual media, performance, etc.
- Politics of power and access in multilingual societies
- Governmental and institutional responsibilities in multilingual societies
- Multi/translingualism and the brain
- Bi/multilingual language acquisition
- Multilingualism and language assessment
- Globalization, migration, and transnational identities

Please submit abstracts of 250-300 words by 17 Oct. 2014 to GUGradConference at gmail.com.


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