35.3186, Confs: SAUTE: Listening to Africa - Englishes in the Global South

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Subject: 35.3186, Confs: SAUTE: Listening to Africa - Englishes in the Global South

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Date: 10-Nov-2024
From: Crispin Thurlow [crispin.thurlow at unibe.ch]
Subject: SAUTE: Listening to Africa - Englishes in the Global South


SAUTE: Listening to Africa - Englishes in the Global South
Short Title: SAUTE 2025

Date: 06-Jun-2025 - 07-Jun-2025
Location: University of Bern, Switzerland
Contact: Crispin Thurlow
Contact Email: saute2025 at gmail.com
Meeting URL: https://saute2025.ch/

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Applied Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics
Subject Language(s): English (eng)

Meeting Description:

Founded in 1947, the Swiss Association of University Teachers of
English (SAUTE) holds a biennial conference; next year, it is the
University of Bern's turn to host the conference.

In June 2025, we are inviting SAUTE colleagues and any others to join
us in reflecting on the way our work engages, or might engage, with
English languages and literatures in/from Africa. With 27 of its 54
countries using English as an official or secondary language, Africa
is home to an estimated 240 million English speakers and has produced
four Nobel laureates writing in English. These sorts of figures are
obviously complex and fraught, but English continues to have a
considerable presence in the continent. One does not have to be an
“Africanist” to turn one’s attention to Africa, to reflect momentarily
on its particular relationship with English languages and literatures.
While the conference organizers will be glad to receive submissions
addressing African scholarship, African writers, and/or African
settings, the conference is open other perspectives from the Global
South. As always, SAUTE colleagues are invited to submit other
examples of their current work too. Regardless, the conference will be
a special chance to consider how English studies in Switzerland
responds to current work on decoloniality and Southern theory. The
organizers plan to create a dedicated space for a discussion about
these issues too.

Keynote Speakers

Prof. Dr. Moradewun Adejunmobi is a Professor in the African American
and African Studies Department at the University of California, Davis.

Prof. Dr. Nicky Falkof is Professor of Media Studies at the University
of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Prof. Dr. Atiqa Hachimi is an Associate Professor of Sociolinguistics
and Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Toronto.



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