34.2473, Confs: Workshop on Multilingualism in Conflict Zones

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Subject: 34.2473, Confs: Workshop on Multilingualism in Conflict Zones

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Date: 12-Aug-2023
From: Mashael Althobiti [m.althobiti at pgr.reading.ac.uk]
Subject: Workshop on Multilingualism in Conflict Zones

Workshop on multilingualism in conflict zones
Short Title: Workshop on multilingualism

Date: 28-Sep-2023 - 28-Sep-2023
Location: Reading, United Kingdom
Contact: Mashael Althobiti
Contact Email: m.althobiti at pgr.reading.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://research.reading.ac.uk/research-blog/event/multil
ingualism-in-conflict-zones-call-for-papers/?fbclid=IwAR3QmjJawSOGtkjg
96FSjUpyrQ8H3ub8ZkFFHy_6jKRzJWzdfYkF2W4kYRY

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Aari (aiz)
                     English (eng)

Meeting Description:

In the third millennium, issues related to conflict zones and ensuring
their security are increasingly important for the whole world. In many
of the contemporary conflict situations issues connected to identities
are central. More specifically, conflicting arguments pivot around
culture, religion, and ethnicity, all of which are organically related
to and expressed through language.

This British Academy-funded workshop, which is organised by the
Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics (University of
Reading), aims to explore the nature of communication in real-life
case studies of conflict from a wide range of geographical locations
and different scales of engagement.

It will offer a forum for discussion which will unite early career
researchers (including PGR) and established academics with overlapping
interests in the field. Scholars from different disciplines are
invited to disseminate findings from original research and discuss
theoretical and methodological challenges when conducting research in
conflict or post-conflict zones from an applied
linguistic/sociolinguistic perspective. We endeavour that this
workshop will highlight the importance of language in promoting peace,
social cohesion, collaboration, and trust in conflict-ridden
communities.

The objectives of this workshop are:

To share empirical research on multilingualism in conflict and
post-conflict zones.
To share methodological and practical challenges in studying
multilingualism in conflict and post-conflict zones and discuss
possible ways of overcoming these.
To raise awareness about various social, educational, linguistic,
psychological, and political issues that are faced by the people who
live in communities affected by conflict.
To offer a supportive forum where issues in relation to language and
conflict can be openly discussed.
To encourage scholars to come together, get to know each other and
interact in positive and constructive ways.
To come up with creative initiatives that can help build trust and
promote peace in conflict and post-conflict zones.
The workshop envisions a critical space for stimulating dialogue among
scholars working on all aspects of multilingualism and conflict,
including (but not limited to) the following themes:

Language and identity
Language policy and planning
Hate speech
Media and social media
Language choice
Linguistic vitality, language maintenance and language shift
Linguistic landscapes
Language attitudes
Language ideologies
Education and language learning
Migration and citizenship
Linguistic rights
Minority languages
Each paper will last for 30 minutes: 20 minutes for presentation; 10
minutes for discussion. The language of the conference is English.

Abstracts should be submitted anonymously by Friday 21 August 2023 via
EasyChair. If you are unable to submit your abstract online, contact
Dr. Christiana Themistocleous.

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