33.2790, Calls: Anthro Ling, History of Ling, Ling & Literature, Socioling, Translation/USA

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Subject: 33.2790, Calls: Anthro Ling, History of Ling, Ling & Literature, Socioling, Translation/USA

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Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 05:44:11
From: itamar francez [ifrancez at uchicago.edu]
Subject: The Quest for Modern Language between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea

 
Full Title: The Quest for Modern Language between the Mediterranean and the Black Sea 

Date: 13-Apr-2023 - 14-Apr-2023
Location: Chicago, USA 
Contact Person: itamar francez
Meeting Email: ifrancez at uchicago.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; History of Linguistics; Ling & Literature; Sociolinguistics; Translation 

Call Deadline: 15-Dec-2022 

Meeting Description:

Interdisciplinary conference on linguistic ideologies of language
modernization, reform and revival movements of the 19th and early 20th
centuries in the Middle East and West Asia.


Call for Papers:

The Quest for Modern Language between the Mediterranean and the Black sea

Language ideologies were an important component of modern nationalism, and
figured prominently in the cultural and political discourses of modernity and
modernization in and around what came to be known as ''the Middle East'' in
the 19th and early 20th centuries. We invite submissions for a two day
workshop, to be held at the University of Chicago on April 14-15, 2023, which
seeks to bring together scholars across humanistic and social scientific
disciplines (such as History, Literary theory, Linguistic and Anthropology) to
explore the articulation, circulation, and mobilization of ideas about
language death and revival, language reform, and language modernization in the
contexts of empire, emerging nationalisms, and a modernized / quickly
modernizing world. 

Invited speakers: 
Dima Ayoub, Middlebury College
Johann Strauss, Université Marc Bloch, Strasbourg

Some of the topics we hope to see addressed include: 

(a) What does / did it mean for a language to be or become a modern language
within the relevant discourses? 
(b) How does multilingualism and translation figure within projects of
language modernization in the relevant geopolitical contexts? 
(b) How, if at all, did developments in linguistics, philology, and adjacent
disciplines inform and shape ideas about ''modern language'' and related ideas
such as ''modern / national literature''? 
(c) How do notions of native tongue, language family, vernacular dialect or
register interact with concepts such as empire, nation, motherland?
(d) How does the relation between language and the body figure in projects of
(re)generation of modern polities and individuals? 

1-page abstracts for a 30 minute presentation should be sent to
ifrancez at uchicago.edu

Submission deadline: December 15, 2022
Notification of acceptance: January 2022




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