27.1172, Calls: General Ling/USA

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Subject: 27.1172, Calls:  General Ling/USA

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Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2016 10:04:32
From: Christine Shea [christine-shea at uiowa.edu]
Subject: Midwest Heritage Language Summit: Fostering the Languages of Our Community

 
Full Title: Midwest Heritage Language Summit: Fostering the Languages of Our Community 

Date: 23-Apr-2016 - 23-Apr-2016
Location: Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, USA 
Contact Person: Brahim Chakrani
Meeting Email: chakrani at msu.edu
Web Site: http://www.cal.msu.edu/heritagelanguagesummit 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Call Deadline: 03-Apr-2016 

Meeting Description:

The Midwest Heritage Language Network is pleased to announce a one-day summit
on heritage languages in the community to be held at Michigan State University
on April 23, 2016.

The Heritage Language Summit will address issues related to heritage speakers
and the larger community. The Summit will include panels addressing heritage
speakers and the business community, health care, educational resources,
bilingualism and family language maintenance.

We are also very pleased to announce that our keynote speaker will be
Professor Abbas Benmamoun (Professor of Linguistics, University of Illinois
Urbana-Champaign), Arabic linguist and expert on Arabic as a heritage
language.

Organizers:

Glenn Martínez (Ohio State University)
Diane Birkbichler (Ohio State University)
Brahim Chakrani (Michigan State University)
Elena Foulis (Ohio State University)
Kim Potowski (University of Illinois Chicago)
Christine Shea (University of Iowa)
Isabel Velazquez (University of Nebraska)

We would like to thank the following for their generous support of this
conference:
Humanities Without Walls initiative (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign),
funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
College of Arts and Letters (Michigan State University)
Department of Linguistics and Langauges (Michigan State University)

Meeting Location:
Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan

Contact Information:
Christine Shea
heritagelanguagesummit at gmail.com

Meeting Dates:
The Midwest Heritage Language Summit: Fostering the Languages of our Community
will be held from 23-Apr-2016 to 23-Apr-2016.


2nd Call for Papers: 

We are pleased to announce a second call for poster presentations at the
Midwest Heritage Speaker Summit, to be held at Michigan State University on
April 23.
We seek proposals related to the acquisition, teaching, community involvement
and family maintenance of all heritage languages.

For further information, please check our website:
http://www.cal.msu.edu/heritagelanguagesummit




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