Advance Notice of Upcoming Seminar - Language and Migration
Hello Friends of the Human DHS
Please find below advice of an upcoming seminar on language and migration.
Kind Regards
Brian Ward
PRELIMINARY ANNOUNCEMENT: INTERNATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES ON LANGUAGE AND MIGRATION
This Autumn the AILA Research Network on Language and Migration will launch an international seminar series on the theme of:
“Migration and Diaspora-related Multilingualism: Sites, Domains, Encounters”.
The objectives of the seminar series are:
1.to bring together scholars in applied linguistics and related disciplines to explore new theoretical and methodological perspectives on language and space, in relation to migration and diasporic language practices;
2. to articulate an agenda for applied linguistic research in multilingual settings, sensitive to the material and cultural flows and landscapes characteristic of globalization.
3.to engage key providers and policy-makers in these debates.
The first seminar in the series will be held in the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra
DATE: 19th-20th September 2007
TITLE: Migration, polycentric identities, language(s) and power
This seminar launches the discussion by exploring interdisciplinary links between language studies and social sciences in terms of theory, methodology and practice. How can sociological, political and critical perspectives coming from the South offer novel ways of understanding the complexity of language use in migrant and other hybrid situations.
Issues to be discussed in this seminar may include:
- Polycentricity and scales;
- Rival globalisations and alternative epistemologies resisting dominant narratives by researching perspectives from “the ground”;
- Conflicting political and ideological constructions of language, of languages, of multilingualism, multilingual distribution and multilingual space;
- Methodological issues in using social linguistics and critical and linguistic ethnography to research in hybrid, intercultural and migrant contexts and
- Ways in which these affect practices, political actions and political agendas of language researchers.
INVITED PLENARIES:
Kanavillil Rajagopalan [ University of Campinas, Brazil]
Jan Blommaert [Institute of Education, University of London] José Manuel Pureza [CES, Coimbra] Graça Capinha [CES, Coimbra]
CALL FOR ABSTRACTS
A call for abstracts will be sent out shortly.
FOR MORE INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mike Baynham (Mike.Baynham[@]education.leeds.ac.uk)
Stef Slembrouck (Stef.Slembrouck[@]ugent.be)
Clara Keating [Coimbra Local Organizer] (kleating[@]gmail.com)