31.2322, Confs: Yiddish, Eastern; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Online

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Subject: 31.2322, Confs: Yiddish, Eastern; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Online

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Date: Tue, 21 Jul 2020 13:13:01
From: Zoe Belk [zoe.belk at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish

 
Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish 

Date: 04-Aug-2020 - 03-Aug-2021 
Location: Online (Zoom), United Kingdom 
Contact: Zoe Belk 
Contact Email: hasidic.yiddish at ucl.ac.uk 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics 

Subject Language(s): Yiddish, Eastern (ydd)

Meeting Description: 

Inaugural event: Perspectives on Hasidic Yiddish language 

The Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish research group at University College London
and the UCL Institute of Jewish Studies are delighted to announce the launch
of an online seminar series on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish language. The
seminar series is dedicated to the memory of UCL Professor Ada
Rapoport-Albert, a world-leading scholar of the history of the Hasidic
movement. The series is devoted to the exploration of all facets of
contemporary and historical Hasidic Yiddish worldwide. 

The inaugural event in the series is a round table entitled Perspectives on
Hasidic Yiddish. The event will feature discussion of a wide variety of topics
related to Hasidic Yiddish, including linguistics, Yiddish studies, Yiddish
pedagogy and Hasidic Yiddish-speaking communities by the following speakers:
- Khayele (Helen) Beer, UCL
- Meyer Labin, Yiddish writer and journalist
- Tali Loewenthal, UCL
- Heather Munro, Durham University
- Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto
 

Program Information: 

The event is open to all and will be held on Zoom on Tuesday, August 4 at
18:00 BST. If you would like to attend, please register by email to
hasidic.yiddish at ucl.ac.uk. The Zoom link and password will be sent to
participants shortly be before the event.

Subsequent events in the seminar series will include public lectures and
further round tables, providing an ongoing forum for fruitful discussion on
all aspects of Hasidic Yiddish. Full details of dates and speakers will be
announced shortly. The series comprises an element of our ongoing AHRC-funded
research project on contemporary Hasidic Yiddish based in the UCL Departments
of Linguistics and Hebrew & Jewish Studies.

Keynote speakers:
- Dalit Assouline, University of Haifa 
- Shmuel Hiley, Yiddish author and scholar (TBC)
- Steffen Krogh, Aarhus University - Is Haredi Satmar Yiddish a Creole?
- Chaya Nove, Graduate Center, CUNY - Language Variation and Hasidic
Orientation in New York





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