35.3556, Calls: Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility and Linguistic Identity

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Subject: 35.3556, Calls: Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility and Linguistic Identity

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Date: 15-Dec-2024
From: Sandra Vlasta [sandra.vlasta at unige.it]
Subject: Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility and Linguistic Identity


Full Title: Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility and Linguistic
Identity

Date: 15-Sep-2025 - 17-Sep-2025
Location: Genoa, Italy
Contact Person: Sandra Vlasta
Meeting Email: sandra.vlasta at unige.it
Web Site: https://mobilityandlinguisticidentity25.wordpress.com

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 31-Jan-2025

Meeting Description:

International Conference on Multilingualism and Migration: Mobility
and Linguistic Identity. This conference aims to bring together
researchers working on the impact of different forms of migration and
mobility on language(s).

Scientific committee: Prof. Natalia Dankova, Université du Québec en
Outaouais, Canada Prof. Ellen Hurst-Harosh, University of
Johannesburg, South Africa Dr. Karolina Kowalcze, University of Genoa,
Italy Prof. Simona Leonardi, University of Genoa, Italy Dr. Rita
Luppi, University of Bologna, Italy Prof. Malka Muchnik, Bar-Ilan
University, Israel Dr. Ramona Pellegrino, University of Bologna, Italy
Prof. Mila Schwartz, Oranim Academic College of Education, Israel
Prof. Michal Tannenbaum, Tel Aviv University, Israel Dr. Sandra
Vlasta, University of Genoa, Italy Prof. Joel Walters, Bar-Ilan
University, Israel

Call for Papers:

Our contemporary world is characterised by different forms of
migration and mobility: people migrate for work, education and family,
they might have to leave a place for political or economic reasons, or
they might flee wars, ecological disasters or terrorism. These
migrants feel the need to adapt to their new homelands, not least to
their language(s) and their culture(s). They need to renegotiate their
identity, incorporating new elements and preserving others they have
brought with them. These processes also affect host societies that
transform due to the impact of migration.
This conference aims to bring together researchers working on the
impact of these processes on language(s). By language we intend
diatopic varieties and minority languages as well as language forms
that may occur only in the context of migration (for instance via
code-switching and code-mixing). Migration brings different languages
together; it approximates multilingual speakers and may shape
multilingual realities. At the same time, these processes may create
opposition to certain languages, negative attitudes towards speakers
and resistance to multilingualism. Also, they may enforce hierarchies
between languages and allow that certain languages are perceived
positively whereas others are seen as less valuable.
We invite researchers interested in these and related aspects and
working, for instance, on multilingualism, language and identity,
education, linguistic landscapes, language attitudes, onomastics
(names in migration) and language change over generations.

The conference sees itself as a critical space for stimulating
dialogue among international scholars working on, but not limited to
the following topics:
•       linguistic adaptation in migration, including linguistic
competence(s); relation / change of name(s) in migration; relationship
to different languages in a speaker’s repertoire
•       multilingual speakers / writers in the context of migration
•       narratives that reflect the complex processes of immigrants’
relation to the original and to the new society
•       attitudes towards multilingual migrants / multilingualism in
the context of migration
•       the role of (social) media in the context of multilingualism
in migration (for migrants and for the host society)
•       formal and informal educational language support provided by
the host country
•       the role of education in maintaining people’s heritage / first
language(s)

We welcome original studies which address the following topics:
Language, Identity and Ideology, Multilingualism, Migration, Language
Maintenance and Language Attrition, Biographies and Narratives,
Landscapes and People, Language and Conflict, Heritage Languages,
Language and Diaspora, Names in Migration etc.
We welcome contemporary as well as historical perspectives.

Conference language: English

Submission details:
We encourage proposals for individual papers and panels. Panels should
include an organizer / moderator and three or four presentations.
Proposals of 300-500 words, including bibliography, and up to five
keywords should be submitted to: sandra.vlasta at unige.it

Organizing committee:
Prof. Simona Leonardi, University of Genoa, Italy
Dr. Karolina Kowalcze, University of Genoa, Italy
Dr. Sandra Vlasta, University of Genoa, Italy

Conference fees:
Early Bird General: € 100,00
Regular General: € 120,00
Early Bird Student: € 50,00
Regular Student: € 70,00

We plan to publish selected papers in a peer-reviewed, open-access
special issue of “Polyphonie” (see: www.polyphonie.at /
https://riviste.unige.it/index.php/polyphonie/index), guest edited by
Prof. Simona Leonardi, Dr Kowalcze and Dr. Sandra Vlasta.



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