16.2078, Calls: Socioling/USA; General Ling/UK

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LINGUIST List: Vol-16-2078. Wed Jul 06 2005. ISSN: 1068 - 4875.

Subject: 16.2078, Calls: Socioling/USA; General Ling/UK

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1)
Date: 06-Jul-2005
From: Crystal Fleming < cfleming at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries 

2)
Date: 05-Jul-2005
From: Lutz Marten < lm5 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:05:17
From: Crystal Fleming < cfleming at fas.harvard.edu >
Subject: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries 
 

Full Title: Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries 

Date: 04-Nov-2005 - 05-Nov-2005
Location: Cambridge, MA, United States of America 
Contact Person: Crystal Fleming
Meeting Email: xbounds at fas.harvard.edu
Web Site: http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries 

Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 14-Oct-2005 

Meeting Description:

Culture Lines: Emerging Research on Ethno-Racial Boundaries
November 4-5, 2005

An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the   Committee
for Ethnic Studies
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This national conference will bring together graduate students from   the social
sciences and the humanities who research ethnic, racial,   and cultural
boundaries. Sessions will be organized thematically to   allow comparisons of
boundaries from diverse regions and historical   periods, as well as different
disciplinary approaches. With this   conference, we aim to shift attention
toward the dynamics of   boundaries: how they are created, imposed, defended,
bridged,   subverted, and transformed.

Possible themes might include:

-Properties of boundaries: permeability, permanence, salience, etc.
-Boundary processes: exclusion, bridging, imposition, etc.
-Historical research on racial and ethnic formations over time.
-Ethnographic findings on how boundaries are negotiated in everyday life.
-Boundaries in cultural production and reception: contesting authenticity,
dynamics of collaboration and competition, etc.
-Imagery of boundaries in cultural artifacts and performance
-How boundaries operate in the expression of collective identity,  
through cultural and linguistic practices.

Keynote Speaker: Fredrik Barth, Department of Anthropology, University of Oslo
Faculty Sponsor: Michèle Lamont, Department of Sociology, Harvard   University 

All graduate students in accredited AM or PhD programs are invited to   submit
titled abstracts of no more than 300 words to   <xbounds at fas.harvard.edu> no
later than August 1. Abstracts should   describe the argument of the paper and
the text/material/evidence on   which it draws. Students selected for
presentation will be notified   by September 1. They will be asked to submit a
completed paper by   October 14. Please note that conference attendees will be
responsible   for finding support for their travel and accommodation expenses at
  their home institutions. For more information, please visit the   conference
website at http://www.wjh.harvard.edu/boundaries.

Conference organizers:
Lydia Bean, Department of Sociology
Crystal Fleming, Department of Sociology
Marc Gidal, Department of Music
Michael Jeffries, Department of African & African American Studies
Mark Pachucki, Department of Sociology
Sabrina Pendergrass, Department of Sociology
Yael Schacher, Program in the History of American Civilization



	
-------------------------Message 2 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Jul 2005 02:05:21
From: Lutz Marten < lm5 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory 

	

Full Title: Bantu Grammar: Description and Theory 

Date: 20-Apr-2006 - 22-Apr-2006
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Lutz Marten
Meeting Email: BantuConference at soas.ac.uk
Web Site: http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/BantuConference.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Bantu 

Call Deadline: 19-Dec-2005 

Meeting Description:

With over 400 languages, the Bantu family provides a rich field for descriptive,
comparative and theoretical linguistic studies.  

During this conference, we want to bring together researchers engaged in the
study of Bantu languages from a descriptive and/or theoretical perspective, so
as to highlight the relation between descriptive studies and theory formation in
Bantu linguistics. The conference is part of a collaborative project between
SOAS, the University of Leiden, and the Zentrum für allgemeine
Sprach-wissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Berlin, funded by the
British Academy (http://mercury.soas.ac.uk/users/lm5/bantu_project.htm). 

Abstracts are invited for presentations at the conference, addressing any aspect
of the description or analysis of Bantu languages. We particularly welcome
papers which combine theoretically motivated analysis with the description of
new or lesser known aspects of Bantu languages. 

Time for presentations is 30 minutes including discussion.

Abstracts should be no longer than one page A4, including data and references,
with 2.5 cm margins and font size no smaller than 12 point.  Please send two
copies of your abstract. One of these should be anonymous, and one should
include your name, affiliation and email at the top of the page, directly below
the title.

Abstracts may be submitted either electronically, preferably as PDF, RTF, or MS
Word attachment (email address: BantuConference at soas.ac.uk) or as hard copy by
post (addressed to Lutz Marten, Department of Africa, SOAS, Thornhaugh Street,
Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, England). In either case, abstracts must reach
the organisers by Mon 19 Dec 2005.


 



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