21.3982, Calls: General Ling, Kurdish/USA

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Subject: 21.3982, Calls: General Ling, Kurdish/USA

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Date: 06-Oct-2010
From: Amir Sharifi < sharifiamir at yahoo.com >
Subject: North American Conference on the Kurdish Language

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Date: Sat, 09 Oct 2010 10:22:09
From: Amir Sharifi [sharifiamir at yahoo.com]
Subject: North American Conference on the Kurdish Language

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Full Title: North American Conference on the Kurdish Language 

Date: 05-Nov-2010 - 06-Nov-2010
Location: Los Angeles, USA 
Contact Person: Amir sharifi
Meeting Email: sharifiamir at yahoo.com
Web Site: http://www.kaes.us 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Subject Language(s): Kurdish, Central (ckb)
                     Kurdish, Northern (kmr)
                     Kurdish, Southern (sdh)

Call Deadline: 20-Oct-2010 

Meeting Description:

The First North American Conference 
On the Kurdish Language 

The Kurdish American Education Society (KAES), a non-profit cultural 
organization in Los Angeles will be hosting the first North American 
Conference on the Kurdish Language and Culture on November 5, 2010. 
The 
event is co-sponsored by the UCLA G.E. von Grunebaum Center for Near 
Eastern Studies (CNES).  Our conference will bring to Los Angeles Kurdish 
and non-Kurdish linguists, students, and scholars from different parts of the 
United States, Canada, and Europe to address a wide spectrum of topics 
and 
research on Kurdish studies. 

Call For Papers

The primary goal of the conference is to stress the need for reviewing the 
existing trends, current challenges, and new linguistic and socio-linguistic 
and historical studies, recognize the achievements that scholars and 
practitioners have made in their respective fields of research, and open new 
possibilities for raising consciousness about and change the state of the 
language and its community of speakers. 

Conference participants and presenters are from a wide spectrum of 
disciplines, including but not limited to applied linguistics, dialectology, 
lexicography, sociolinguistics, anthropology, art and language, educational 
linguistics, Kurdish as a heritage language, discourse analysis, and 
historical linguistics.

The Call for Papers welcomes timely submission of abstracts for papers and 
posters to be presented at the event on Nov 5 in Collins Conference room 
at the UCLA James West Alumni Center. Some of the emerging conference 
topics include: The Influence of Kurdish on the Neo-Aramaic Language, 
Kurdish language policy and planning, language and identity, challenges of 
developing educational materials in Kurdish, music and cultural rights. The 
Conference Committee has already received a range of topic proposals and 
themes as listed below.

We urge all those interested in research about theoretical linguistics, 
applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, lexicography, educational linguistics, 
language minorities, heritage languages, literacy, language and literature, 
language and gender to join us in co-sponsoring and contributing to the 
success of this conference. We will also use the conference as an occasion 
to honor and pay tribute to the memory of Dr.Vera Saeedpour who laid the 
foundation for scholarly and academic work on the Kurdish life and culture.
The deadline for abstracts is Oct. 25, 2010. All you need is a title and a 
300-word abstract for a 20-minute presentation to be sent via email to:  
sharifiamir at yahoo.com 

The sessions are still being organized as papers are coming in, presenters 
will be notified if they will be presenting individually or in panels. For 
additional information on the conference and registration, please refer to 
the KAES website:  www.kaes.us ( to be launched soon) or contact Amir 
Sharifi: sharifiamir at yahoo.com

List of the names of the presenters and their affiliations:
1) Yonar Sabar, scholar, specializing in Neo-Aramaic studies, professor in 
the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, University of 
California Los Angeles.
2) Jaffer Sheyholislami, Assistant Professor at the School of Linguistics and 
Language Studies, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada. Areas of research: 
language and identity; language of/in media; language policy and planning; 
language and power/ideology; genre studies.
3) Christian Sinclair, Assistant Director, Center for Middle Eastern Studies 
University of Arizona, PhD candidate in Kurdish Studies at the University of 
Exeter, specialized in media, language policy, and identity. dle
4)Shayee Khanaka, librarian for Linguistics & Mid Eastern Studies, at UC 
Berkely, has an MA in Folklore and a thesis on Kurdish Humor
5) Rashid Karadaghi, Author of the Azadi English-Kurdish Dictionary and 
writer on Kurdish affairs
6) Ali Ashuri, author, poet, and critic, specialized in philology and Kurdish 
literature; he has taught at San Diego State University
7) Muhamad Tawfiq Ali, applied linguist, translator, critic, member of 
Chartered Institute of Linguistics ( MCIL)
8) Gregory Scarborough, field researcher on Kurdish music and cultural 
rights, focusing on Kurdish areas in Turkey, director of Cultural 
Cornerstones 
9) Alexandra Jaffe, the incoming editor of Linguistic Anthropology and 
formerly the editor of Language and Education, specialized in linguistic 
anthropology, language ideology, bilingualism and the status of minority 
languages, professor at California State University, Long Beach
10) Hashem Ahmadzadeh Kurdish scholar ,a lecturer in the Kurdish Studies 
Center of the University of Exeter, specialized in language in Kurdish novels
11) Opengin Ergin. 2nd year Ph.D. student at L'Université de Paris -
Sorbonne Nouvelle, specializing in Kurdish sociolinguistics.
12) Norman Léonard, the Director of Outreach, Language Acquisition 
Resource Center, San Diego State University, President of California 
Teachers Association , specialized in community based heritage language 
programs and training teachers through California Foreign Language 
Project. 
13) Amir Hasssanpour (via Skype): scholar of Kurdish sociolinguistics and 
history, professor at the Department of Near and Middle Eastern 
Civilizations, University of Toronto.
14) Michel Chyet ( Via Skype), Library of Congress, author of Kurdish 
Dictionary: Kurmanji-English, scholar and researcher, author of a thorn 
bush sprang between them': studies on Mem u Zin.
15) Hisyar Ozsoy, fellow at the Social and Cultural Anthropology 
Department, University of Texas, Austin, specialized in research on state 
formation, nationalism, neo-liberalism,multiculturalism and transformations of 
Kurdish politics.
16) Salih Akin, lecturer in general linguistics at Rounen University, France. 
He specializes in linguistic and sociolinguistic description of Kurdish 
language, the representation of foreigners 
17) Dilan Roshani ( Via Skype), specialized in computational linguistics and 
scholarly network and construction of websites on Kurds and Kurdistan, 
architect, manager and director of the Kurdish encyclopedia of Kurdistan, 
Kurdistanica, the inventor of the Kurdish Unified Alphabet, called 'yekgirtú'.
18) Amir Sharifi, lecturer, Department of Linguistics, California State 
university, Long Beach, applied linguist, translator, specializing in literacy 
socialization.

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