19.3772, Calls: General Ling/USA; General Ling,Historical Ling/Latvia

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Subject: 19.3772, Calls: General Ling/USA; General Ling,Historical Ling/Latvia

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1)
Date: 08-Dec-2008
From: Rebecca Shields < rashields at wisc.edu >
Subject: Workshop in General Linguistics 

2)
Date: 06-Dec-2008
From: Heiko Marten < heiko.marten at ru.lv >
Subject: 2nd International Conference on Latgalistics

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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:40:54
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Subject: Workshop in General Linguistics

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Full Title: Workshop in General Linguistics 
Short Title: WIGL 

Date: 24-Apr-2009 - 25-Apr-2009
Location: Madison, Wisconsin, USA 
Contact Person: Blake Rodgers
Meeting Email: brodgers at wisc.edu
Web Site: http://ling.wisc.edu/lso/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 15-Feb-2009 

Meeting Description:

WIGL 7 (2009)
Date: April 24-25, 2009
Place: 1418 Van Hise Hall, 1220 Linden Dr. 
Abstract Submission Deadline: February 15, 2009 
Invited speaker: Keir Moulton, University of Massachusetts-Amherst 

The Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL) has been sponsored by the Linguistics
Student Organization at the University of Wisconsin-Madison annually since 2003.
The workshop is held in spring, and is open to presentations from any subfield
of linguistics. The proceedings are published online in the LSO Working Papers
in Linguistics. 

Call for Papers

The UW-Madison Linguistics Student Organization invites submissions for papers
to be presented at the 7th annual Workshop in General Linguistics (WIGL), to be
held on Friday-Saturday, April 24-25 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Papers are welcome on any aspect of human language grammar, from any theoretical
perspective. After the workshop, presenters may submit papers for online
publication in the LSO Working Papers in Linguistics.

Abstracts should be at most one page, with one inch margins and 12 point font. A
second page may be included for references and/or data. Abstracts should be
submitted electronically by mailing an attachment in Word (.doc), plain text
(.txt), or .pdf format to rashields at wisc.edu by Feb. 15, 2009. You will be
notified of the status of your submission by March 1. Abstracts should be
anonymous, with only the title of the paper at the top of the page. In the body
of the email message, please include the following identifying information:
-Author's name
-Affiliation (institution and department)
-Title of paper
-Email address that should be used to contact the author

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Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2008 11:41:06
From: Heiko Marten [heiko.marten at ru.lv]
Subject: 2nd International Conference on Latgalistics

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Full Title: 2nd International Conference on Latgalistics 

Date: 15-Oct-2009 - 17-Oct-2009
Location: Rezekne, Latvia 
Contact Person: Ilga Suplinska
Meeting Email: Ilga.Suplinska at ru.lv
Web Site: http://www.ru.lv/index.php?lang=en&p=4&p2=401 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 01-May-2009 

Meeting Description:

The 2nd International Conference on Latgalistics follows the first such
conference held in St.Petersburg in September 2008. Topics from linguistics,
literary sciences, history, and folklore from the region of Latgale in Eastern
Latvia will be put into an interdisciplinary perspective of international
studies on multilingualism, multiculturalism, regional and minority languages,
and centre-and-periphery studies. 

Call for Papers

The 1st International Conference on Latgalian Studies took place from September
19th-20th, 2008 in Saint-Petersburg with the aim of starting off a new tradition
of conferences. In the second conference, we will be aiming for a more general
debate on a new understanding of centres and peripheries from a perspective of
regional and minority languages, folklore, literature, and processes which are
connected with these topics in society, education and politics, such as
regionalism, questions of locality and globality, decentralisation, identity,
and multiculturalism. The point of departure of the discussions will be based on
issues relating to the region of Latgale - but scholars working on one or
several of the conference fields regarding other regions are wholeheartedly
encouraged to participate in order to give the conference a contrastive perspective.

The conference will also provide the framework for the presentation of the
results of the Ethnolinguistic Survey of Latgale, conducted by R?zekne
University College and the University of Milan, in the monograph Valodas
Austrumlatvij?  (Languages in Eastern Latvia). Interested scientists as well as
representatives of cultural and educational institutions and the media are
kindly invited also to this event. 

The conference envisages to create interdisciplinary debates between the
following fields: 
- Applied linguistics,
- Theoretical linguistics,
- History of culture and art,
- Folklore and literary science, and 
- Innovative methods in the teaching of language, culture or history.

The conference will be dedicated to the commemoration of the Latgalian poet
Marija And??ne who would have turned 100 years on September 8th, 2009. In 1933,
Marija And??ne published the first collection of her poetry, Reits (Morning), in
which for the first time the orthographic principles of Latgalian as developed
by P. Strods were used. After World War II, the poet lived in the United States,
where she became the most recognised representative of Latgalian poetry. M.
And??ne studied educational science at the State Teachers' Institute in R?zekne,
the predecessor of today's R?zekne University College. She collected Latgalian
folklore, and was through her work an inspiration for many pupils. Her life and
work are an excellent example of active philological work as a contribution to
the development and maintenance of traditional languages, literature and folklore.

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