FW: Second Call for Papers: 51st International Congress of Americanists

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From: "Serafin M. Coronel-Molina" <scoronel at dolphin.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2002 09:51:03 -0500
To: Language Policy-List <lgpolicy-list at ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: Second Call for Papers:  51st International Congress of
Americanists

Dear Colleagues,

Below is a CFP for a symposium that I am co-coordinating, together with two
other colleagues, at the 51st International Congress of Americanists, to be
held next July in Santiago, Chile.  Please redistribute this call to other
colleagues or pertinent listserves.

Please feel free to communicate either with me or with Linda Grabner-Coronel
(grabnerl at canisius.edu) if you are interested in submitting an abstract for
our symposium.  The symposium is entitled, "Languages, Cultures, Ideologies
and Identities in the Andes."

If your research is not related to indigenous languages/identities of the
Andes, but you might be interested in presenting at this conference,
definitely see the 51ICA website (URL listed below in the CFP) for a list of
other symposia being held at the conference.

Regards, Serafin M. Coronel-Molina GSE, University of Pennsylvania

~~~ 51ST INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AMERICANISTS
Santiago, Chile, July 14-18, 2003

"RE-THINKING THE AMERICAS AT THE THRESHOLD OF THE 21ST CENTURY" Web address:
http://www.uchile.cl/vaa/americanista

Art/Literature/Linguistics (ALL) The Symposia of the Congress are divided
into thematic categories.  This Symposium is listed in the category Art,
Literature and Linguistics (ALL).

CALL FOR PAPERS FOR SYMPOSIUM ALL-12: LANGUAGES, CULTURES, IDEOLOGIES AND
IDENTITIES IN THE ANDES Web address:  http://www2.canisius.edu/~grabnerl

CONVENOR:  Serafín M. Coronel-Molina, University of Pennsylvania, Graduate
School of Education; (now living in New York) 95 South Drive, Amherst, New
York 14226, USA.  Telephone: (716) 836-9174; fax: (716) 836-9375;  e-mail:
scoronel at adelphia.net

CO-CONVENORS:  Linda L.  Grabner-Coronel, Canisius College, Department of
Modern Languages, 2001 Main Street, Buffalo, New York 14208, USA. Telephone:
(716) 888-2836; fax: (716) 836-9375; e-mail: grabnerl at canisius.edu

César Itier, Intitut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales
(INALCO, Paris) y Centre d'Etudes sur les Langues Indigènes d'Amérique
(CELIA), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Paris, France.
Telephone: 1- 42-52-25-76 (personal), 1-49-26-42-00 (INALCO), 1-49-58- 3821
(CELIA); e-mail: cesar.itier at wanadoo.fr

SYMPOSIUM THEMES AND OBJECTIVES

The Andean region, long known as a nexus of cultures and languages bound up
in a colonizing context, suffers asymmetrical relationships of political,
economic, sociocultural and linguistic power.  The primary focus of this
symposium is on the interface between cultures, languages and ideologies;
its objective is to explore the ways in which such interfaces and power
dynamics have affected the linguistic and social identities of not only
indigenous groups but of the wider societies as a whole, affecting national,
regional, ethnic and gendered identity formation.  What do people do with
their repertoire of languages and identities?  How do they constitute their
multiple ethnic, linguistic and national identities?  How do linguistic,
political and social ideologies mediate cultural patterning in terms of
ethnic or gendered identities? These are some of the questions we would like
to address in this symposium, by examining Andean identities and ideologies
from interdisciplinary perspectives such as sociolinguistic/ethnolinguistic,
cultural/anthropological (including linguistic anthropology), literary,
political, social semiotic, educational, and historical.

The ultimate goal of the symposium is to analyze the sociocultural and
sociolinguistic impacts of colonialism and postcolonialism in a variety of
contexts, historical and contemporary, concentrating on the interaction
between dominant and dominated languages and their functions in identity
construction.  Proposed presentations should consider the use and
representation of language, gender or ethnicity as symbols and constituents
of individual, group, societal and national identities. Proposals should
also represent previously unpublished work, as we are planning to select the
best articles to publish in a book.  Some possible topics are listed below;
other themes that are related to any of these areas are also welcome.

POSSIBLE TOPICS

*  Ideologies of Linguistic and Social Differentiation *  Language and
Political Economy *  Language Attitudes and Identities *  Language
Policy/Planning from Multiple Perspectives *  Languages and Cultures in
Contact *  Bilingualism, Multilingualism and Other Forms of Linguistic
Heteroglossia *  Linguistic Rights and Indigenous Languages *  Language
Shift, Maintenance and Revitalization *  Indigenous Languages in Mass Media,
the Internet and Multimedia *  Rural and Urban Identities *  Transnational
Nature of Languages and Identities *  Effects of Globalization on Language,
Culture and Identity *  Language, Gender, and Race/Ethnicity *  Reproduction
of Social and Linguistic Discrimination and Inequality *  Mestizaje and
Socio-Political Ideologies in Local, National and Global Contexts

Given the interrelatedness and fluidity of all aspects of the questions we
wish to consider, it is neither easy nor necessarily desirable to present a
single perspective.  Therefore, novel perspectives and approaches to these
or related topics are encouraged, and may include interactions among two or
more themes.  Particular approaches might include any one or a combination
of the following, or may take other forms that presenters find relevant and
useful:  a) narratives and testimonies; b) case studies; c) literary,
sociopolitical, linguistic anthropological and semiotic analyses of language
and culture; d) educational efforts; e) historical and contemporary
approaches; f) social, literary or linguistic constructions of
national/ethnic/gendered identities.  Individual presentations should not
exceed 20 minutes in length (8-10 typewritten pages, double spaced).

PROPOSAL SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

Proposals should be no longer than 600 words, and may be in any of the four
official conference languages:  Spanish, English, Portuguese or French.  It
should be composed of two parts:

(1)  a cover page with the title of the presentation, the presenter's name,
affiliation, preferred mailing address, telephone and fax if available,
e-mail address, and any special audio-visual equipment that may be needed
for the presentation.  If the paper being presented was co- authored, the
presenter's name should be listed first, and any co-authors listed
alphabetically afterwards.  Only the presenter's contact information is
needed.

(2)  the 600-word proposal with the title of the presentation, but no other
identifying information.

Proposal submissions should be received no later than December 30, 2002.
Please plan your submission timing accordingly, especially if you are
sending your abstract from abroad, and submit presentation proposals to the
symposium coordinators as follows:

*  If you presently reside in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa or Asia,
send your proposal to Serafín M. Coronel- Molina at the address listed at
the beginning of this announcement.

*  Residents of Canada, the USA, Europe and Australia send your proposals to
Linda L. Grabner-Coronel at the address listed at the beginning of this
announcement. 

Proposals may be submitted via regular surface mail, email or fax.  If you
choose to submit your abstract via email, please send it as a Word
attachment so that the above guidelines may still be followed.  Early
submission of abstracts is strongly encouraged, to expedite the decision
making process. Submitters will be notified by email no later than the end
of January 2003 of their acceptance in the symposium; submitters who do not
have access to email will be notified by regular surface mail or fax.  For
more information, contact Serafín M. Coronel-Molina at scoronel at adelphia.net
or Linda L. Grabner-Coronel at grabnerl at canisius.edu or visit the Symposium
website at http://www2.canisius.edu/~grabnerl

Please note that Congress regulations stipulate that participants may not
present more than two papers in total during the Congress, either in the
same Symposium, or in different Symposia.  See the Congress website for more
detailed information on the 51st International Congress of Americanists, the
rules governing presentations, and all other conference arrangements:
http://www.uchile.cl/vaa/americanista

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