31.2382, Calls: Yiddish, Eastern; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Online

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Subject: 31.2382, Calls: Yiddish, Eastern; Applied Ling, Gen Ling, Hist Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Online

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Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:46:15
From: Zoe Belk [zoe.belk at ucl.ac.uk]
Subject: Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish

 
Full Title: Ada Rapoport-Albert Seminar Series on Contemporary Hasidic Yiddish 

Date: 04-Aug-2020 - 03-Aug-2021
Location: Online (Zoom), United Kingdom 
Contact Person: Zoe Belk
Meeting 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)

Call Deadline: 01-Aug-2020 

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


Call for Papers: 

Deadline: 1 September 2020

While Yiddish is widely regarded as an endangered language in the 21st
century, it remains the everyday language of up to 700,000 Hasidic Jews
globally. Present-day Hasidic Yiddish exhibits striking linguistic differences
from the traditional pre-war Eastern European dialects of the language and
from the standardised variety, which is based largely on the Lithuanian
dialect. Nevertheless, despite the intriguing differences in its structure,
and its central role in the contemporary Yiddish world, Hasidic Yiddish has
suffered from considerable scholarly neglect and has been the subject of
comparatively little linguistic research. Recent years have seen an increased
awareness in the academic community of the importance of Hasidic Yiddish, with
important contributions by many scholars. 

Against this backdrop, we plan to launch an online seminar series on Hasidic
Yiddish in order to provide an ongoing forum for fruitful discussion on all
aspects of this exciting field. The seminar 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. 

We would like to invite proposals for presentations on all aspects of Hasidic
Yiddish language and linguistics, both historical and contemporary. Potential
topics include but are not limited to the following: 
 - Hasidic Yiddish linguistic structures
 - Hasidic Yiddish educational practices
 - Hasidic Yiddish publishing
 - Hasidic Yiddish in historical perspective
 - Hasidic Yiddish and translation
 - Comparative linguistic approaches to Hasidic Yiddish 
 - Hasidic Yiddish online 
 - Use of Yiddish among former Hasidim
 - Use of Yiddish among new Hasidim
 - Hasidic Yiddish pedagogical materials 
 - Language attitudes in Hasidic Yiddish-speaking communities 
 - Code-switching and language contact in Hasidic Yiddish 

Seminars will be held on Zoom. Each seminar will be a total of one hour in
length, with talks of 35 minutes and 25 minutes for discussion. Seminars can
be given in either English or Yiddish. We plan to hold one seminar per month
from September 2020 to July 2021 with a number of round tables dedicated to
specific aspects of Hasidic Yiddish throughout the year. The roundtables and
seminars will hosted by UCL’s Institute of Jewish Studies and will be open to
the public. 

Keynote speakers:
- Dalit Assouline, University of Haifa - Heritage Hasidic Yiddish in Israel
- 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

Please submit seminar proposals and any queries to hasidic.yiddish at ucl.ac.uk
by September 1, 2020. Proposals should summarize the proposed seminar and
indicate its connection to the theme of the series. Proposals should be 500
words maximum excluding references and can be written in either English or
Yiddish. We plan to publish a selection of revised and peer-reviewed seminar
papers as articles in a themed issue of the peer-reviewed Journal of Jewish
Languages. 

Advisory committee: 
Zoë Belk (UCL Linguistics)
Eli Benedict (UCL Linguistics)
Shifra Hiley (UCL Linguistics)
Lily Kahn (UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies)
Izzy Posen (UCL Linguistics)
Kriszta Eszter Szendrői (UCL Linguistics)
Sonya Yampolskaya (UCL Hebrew & Jewish Studies)




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