32.1945, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Albania and Online

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Subject: 32.1945, Calls: Anthro Ling, Gen Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling/Albania and Online

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Date: Fri, 04 Jun 2021 14:31:59
From: Eda Derhemi [edaderhemi at gmail.com]
Subject: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25th Annual Conference: Endangered Languages and Diaspora

 
Full Title: Foundation for Endangered Languages, 25th Annual Conference: Endangered Languages and Diaspora 
Short Title: FEL XXV (2021) 

Date: 16-Dec-2021 - 19-Dec-2021
Location: Tirana, Albania 
Contact Person: Edmond Cane
Meeting Email: edmond.cane at qspa.gov.al
Web Site: https://europe.illinois.edu/news-events/2020-21-initiatives/conference-foundation-endangered-languages 

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

Call Deadline: 13-Jun-2021 

Meeting Description:

The Foundation for Endangered Languages and The Center for Research and
Publication on Arbëresh (QSPA) in collaboration with the University of Tirana
cordially invite international scholars, institutions, and community members
working on the revitalization of endangered languages and their documentation
and archiving, to contribute to the International Conference on “Endangered
Languages and Diaspora”, which will take place in Tirana, Albania, on 16-19
December, 2021. While this is planned as a face-to-face conference, with a
possibility of virtual connection for some papers, contingencies are also
planned if the pandemic security in December does not allow physical
attendance by scholars and activists. We would then reformulate our program as
a virtual conference, and we inform you of the change. Accepted papers will be
published by QSPA before the conference and will be ready for distribution
during the event. There are plans for another peer reviewed publication of
selected papers. English is the main language of the conference.

Conference Main Theme:
This year’s focus is on the interface between linguistic endangerment and
Diaspora. We invite theoretical and empirical studies that investigate
phenomena emerging in this interface. From about 7000 languages spoken today
in the world, about half are expected to die by the end of this century, with
those most endangered already losing functions and speakers every week. Many
of them are languages of diasporic communities. We welcome studies by scholars
from multiple disciplines and methods, and also reports by activists, that
examine the state of endangered languages in the linguistic, cultural,
religious, ethnic and political ecosystems of diasporas, especially with
regard to the proximity/distance between the communities and countries of
origin. The emphasis is on linguistic endangerment as it relates to diaspora
communities perceived either traditionally, as crystallized, physically
“dwelling” in a country away from the homeland; or, in a novel sense,
perceived as fluid, hybrid, “travelling”, transnational entities. This
conference is not about the theoretical study of diaspora per se, nor its
conceptualization.

Conference Special Theme:
Promoting research and publications on and for the Arbëresh of Italy is the
mission of QSPA, the center that hosts this conference. The conference will
dedicate a few entire panels to the discussion of the special theme, “The
state and study of Arbëresh as an endangered language”. Therefore,
contributions to this theme are geographically more focused in the areas where
Arbëresh varieties are spoken. However, the special theme examines the same
content as the main theme of the conference: the relation of linguistic
endangerment and diaspora. We solicit contributions on all matters of
endangerment of Arbëresh varieties in relation to diaspora, as well as
descriptive or analytical studies that approach the language from theoretical
or applied perspectives. Studies from multiple disciplines (linguistics,
literary studies, anthropology, historical studies, pedagogical studies etc.)
are welcome.

For practical purposes and to create a space of comparison, in this conference
we will consider “Arbëresh” to cover a group of four related endangered
languages (each consisting of different varieties) that are spoken in
different Mediterranean countries: Arbëresh, Arvanitika, Arbanasi, and
Arnavutçe (AAAA).


Final Call for Papers: 

The Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) and The Center for Research and
Publication on Arbëresh (QSPA) would like to inform you about some important
updates regarding the FEL XXV Conference  “Endangered Languages and Diaspora”,
which will take place in Tirana, Albania, on 16-19 December, 2021. 

 Please read the main updates below, and submit your abstracts before June 13.
 

1. The abstract submission deadline has been extended to JUNE 13. Other
important dates have changed accordingly. Notification is expected between
8-16 June. 

2. Given that many interested presenters think that their countries will not
be fully open by December, FEL XXV will be a HYBRID conference allowing some
of the presenters to give their talks online. As the date comes closer we will
reconsider the modes of interaction according to the state of the pandemic. 

3. The conference social program and information on registration fees has been
added to the main page of the conference.

Conference website with all the updates:
https://europe.illinois.edu/news-events/2020-21-initiatives/conference-foundat
ion-endangered-languages

Important dates here:
https://europe.illinois.edu/news-events/2020-21-initiatives/conference-foundat
ion-endangered-languages/important-dates-updated




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