36.2391, Calls: Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc4) (Egypt)

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Subject: 36.2391, Calls: Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc4) (Egypt)

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Date: 12-Aug-2025
From: Dick Smakman [d.smakman at hum.leidenuniv.nl]
Subject: Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc4)


Full Title: Globalising Sociolinguistics (GloSoc4)
Theme: Decolonisation

Date: 07-Feb-2026 - 09-Feb-2026
Location: Three universities in Cairo: Ain Shams University, Helwan
University, and Cairo University, Egypt
Contact Person: Nadia Shalaby
Meeting Email: nadiashalaby at aucegypt.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; History of
Linguistics; Language Acquisition; Philosophy of Language;
Sociolinguistics

Call Deadline: 15-Sep-2025

After the successful and inspiring GloSoc 3 conference at Tallinn
University, the theme of this fourth edition of the GloSoc series is
the sociolinguistics of decolonisation. This theme should be
interpreted very broadly. We are hoping for contributions from
countries that have experienced (linguistic) colonisation. PhD
students and young researchers are welcomed in particular. Some themes
for your inspiration:
- The effects of colonisation on language use in a specific region or
country
- Historical descriptions of how colonisation has affected language
use
- Managing the presence and use of the language of the coloniser
- The need (or not) of decolonising language use
- Language learning and teaching
- Theoretical talks about the sociolinguistic mechanisms behind
colonisation and decolonisation
- Codeswitching that includes the colonial language
- Nativisation of the colonial language (making it more culturally
suitable)
- Theoretical bias in analysing sociolinguistic situations in
postcolonial settings
- Effects of colonisation on local languages
- Personal experiences in multilingual situations that included the
language of the former coloniser
- The protection of local languages
- The protection of multilingualism
- Multilingual language practices
- Language norms in multilingual settings
- The social status of the local and the colonial language
- The socially stratified roles of colonial and local languages
- Language management
Keynote Speakers:
- Sinfree Makoni, Pennsylvania State University, USA
- Reem Bassiouney, The American University in Cairo, Egypt
- Henning Radke, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Dick Smakman, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Organisers:
 - Mona Fouad Attia, Helwan University
 - Ola Hafez, Cairo University, Egypt
 - Nihal Nagi Sarhan, Ain Shams University, Egypt
 - Nadia Shalaby, Ain Shams University, Egypt
 - Kapitolina Fedorova, Tallin University, Estonia
 - Dick Smakman, Leiden University, The Netherlands



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