Extended deadline May 31: Language revitalization in a Russian and European context, Helsinki, December 16-18

[Lotta Jalava]

**EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  MAY 31, 2013**

LANGUAGE REVITALIZATION IN A RUSSIAN AND EUROPEAN CONTEXT: EXPLORING
SOLUTIONS FOR MINORITY LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE

December 16–18 at the University of Helsinki, Finland

More information and call for papers:  
http://blogs.helsinki.fi/minor-eurus/conference2013/cfp/

Possible topics for talks include (but are not restricted to) the following:

The development of the current situations of particular minority  
languages (e.g. language attrition and revitalization)
- Comparison of Russia and the EU as multilingual cultural areas
- Comparative analysis of the reasons behind the fate of different  
language communities
- Theory and methodology of language revitalization; prerequisites for  
and obstacles to language revitalization
- Modernization and urbanization and their effects on minority  
linguistic identities and communities
- Minority activists vs. minority communities; the emergence of  
language ideologies of language activists and the effects of their work
- Minorities within a minority and the emergence of new minority  
languages vis-à-vis multiple minority identities

Invited speakers:
Anneli Sarhimaa
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
Fernand de Varennes

**EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS:  MAY 31, 2013**

Organizers:
- Poga – The Language Survival Network
- MinorEuRus – Empowerment and revitalization trends among the  
linguistic minorities in the EU and the Russian Federation (project  
lead by Janne Saarikivi)
- On "Glocal" governance: On the meanings and consequences of the  
‘vernacularization’ of Human Rights Concepts (project lead by: Reetta  
Toivanen)

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Lotta Jalava
PhD student, researcher at Finno-Ugric language studies
Project coordinating assistant
Empowerment and revitalization trends among the linguistic minorities
P.O. Box 24 (Unioninkatu 40), 00014 University of Helsinki
+358 50 311 2500
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