25.1206, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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Subject: 25.1206, Calls: Sociolinguistics, Anthropological Linguistics, General Linguistics/USA

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Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 10:42:48
From: Andrea Sims [sims.120 at osu.edu]
Subject: Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia

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Full Title: Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia 

Date: 09-Oct-2014 - 11-Oct-2014
Location: Columbus, OH, USA 
Contact Person: OSU Sawyer Seminar Email
Meeting Email: sawyerseminar at osu.edu

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

Call Deadline: 17-Mar-2014 

Meeting Description:

The interdisciplinary conference 'Imagining Alternative Modernities: Interventions from the Balkans and South Asia' will take place at The Ohio State University, Columbus, October 9-11, 2014. The conference completes and complements a series of interdisciplinary activities in 2013-14, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation through the John E. Sawyer Seminars on the Comparative Study of Cultures grant program. For more information on the seminar, please visit: http://sawyer.osu.edu

Keynote Speakers:

Tomislav Longinović, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kalyanakrishnan Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University

2nd Call for Papers:

Extended Abstract Deadline: March 17

On the surface, the Balkans and South Asia might seem to have little in common. However, despite many specific differences, they share similar dilemmas of linguistic, religious, cultural, and ethno-national complexity, similar turbulent politicaldevelopments associated with imperial, post-colonial, and Cold War legacies, and a similar diversity of responses to thesehistorical and contemporary challenges. Both areas have seen a mixing of people through migratory settlement, conquest, contact, and trade. But both have also experienced periods of reaction to cultural hybridity: a radical unmixing of peoplethrough partition and population exchange. The impact of these upheavals is seen in the direct violence of war anddevastation, but also through crises on the levels of language, religion, and other modes of culture and human creativeactivity. The unique yet similar issues within each region compel ustowards a comparative approach that will offer a transnational perspective on the intersection of language, religion,culture, and nationalism. 

We thus invite proposals for paper presentations from any disciplinary or interdisciplinary perspective within thehumanities and social sciences addressing one or more of the following themes in the Balkans or in South Asia, orcomparatively between the two regions:

1. Violence, gender, and human rights
2. Nation, religion, language, and secularism
3. Minorities, state, language, and citizenship
4. Postcolonial and postsocialist perspectives on neoliberalism

Additionally, selected papers will be included in a collection of essays resulting from the conference. Graduate students are encouraged to participate. Limited funding is available for student lodging.

Please send a 350-word abstract in PDF format and brief (one paragraph maximum) bio to sawyerseminar at osu.edu by Monday March17, 2014 (11:59pm).

Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 1, 2014 and the program will be announced by June 1, 2014.

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