30.4615, Calls: Ling & Literature, Sociolinguistics/Morocco

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Subject: 30.4615, Calls: Ling & Literature, Sociolinguistics/Morocco

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Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2019 15:23:22
From: Ayoub Loutfi [a.loutfi at flbenmsik.ma]
Subject: Identity in Cultural Diversity

 
Full Title: Identity in Cultural Diversity 

Date: 21-Apr-2020 - 22-Apr-2020
Location: Casablanca, Morocco 
Contact Person: Mohamed Benzidan
Meeting Email: maslab2020 at gmail.com

Linguistic Field(s): Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics 

Call Deadline: 07-Feb-2020 

Meeting Description:

The growing generalization of internet access has greatly contributed to the
interconnectedness of people around the world. Even when long distances
actually separate their physical location in space and time, virtual
communication gives the sense of a certain ubiquity that makes the absence of
internet access a real phobia for many people. This mode of life has so
modified the mindsets and the cultures of the young generations that
communication with the old ones has become difficult, superficial, and at
times impossible. Major discrepancies have set in in everyday intercourse at
both the interpersonal and institutional levels. This has often led to gradual
openness to the remote and the foreign and gradual alienation from the
immediate and the native, thus exacerbating the generation gap and calling
into question the sense of belonging and identity.

One of the consequences of such a development at the collective and
socio-political level is the loss of the traditional national identity,
especially in underdeveloped countries, where cultural hegemony is highly
effective. The old, traditional narratives have become ineffectual because
connected to a past that has come to appear irrelevant to present conditions.
Cultural diversity seems to have a counter-result: instead of leading to
identity construction on more solid bases than provincial ethnocentrism, it is
now at work to prevent the sense of belonging to the community and the nation.
In poor environments, the other and the elsewhere correlate longings for
better life conditions, which perhaps explains the fast-growing phenomenon of
migration.

To deal with the relationship between identity and cultural diversity, the
Moroccan-American Studies Lab calls for papers that tackle the issue from
different perspectives – social, cultural, and political, among others, as
part of its international conference, Identity in Cultural Diversity. With the
aim of gathering researchers in different fields and disciplines from various
cultures around the world, the conference will attempt to interrogate modern
questions and concepts that have often turned into buzzwords. In particular,
the conference invites proposals from different disciplines and angles on
issues related to the following:

- Identity and cultural diversity
- Cultural diversity and migration
- Boundaries and transitional/transnational space
- Globalization, cultural diversity and minorities
- Ethnocentrism and transnationalism
- Hegemony and cultural revivals
- Multilingualism and identity
- Language and culture policies
- Art and cultural diversity
- Citizenship, globalization and identity
- Multilingualism and identity


Call for Papers:

Abstracts should be addressed to maslab2020 at gmail.com and should not exceed
250 words, with name, title and affiliation. Individual paper presentations
will be 20 minutes.

Important dates:

- February 7:  deadline for abstract submission
- March 3:  acceptance/rejection notification
- April10:  paper submission
- April 21- 22: conference dates

 
Conference fee:  $65

The conference registration fee covers:

- Access to all the conference sessions
-  Conference materials
- Refreshments and coffee breaks
- Farewell dinner




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