My Mind Words Paper:
language

Deadline: 30 June 2011

The Moroccan Culture Research Group (MCRG) at the Faculty of Letters & Human Sciences, El Jadida is organizing its 1st. International conference on Cultures and Languages in Contact, 23-24 November, 2011.

The main goal of this symposium is to bring together scholars working on some of the issues that are being addressed within the context of languages, culture, and intercultural communication. Specifically, the symposium seeks to provide an overview of the state-of-the-art, explore new directions and emerging trends in cultures and languages.

Thematic areas include (but are not confined to):

1. Language, Culture and Identity
2. Cultural Representation & Cultural Translation
3. Literacy & Ethnography
4. Language Policy and Planning
5. Multilingualism and Education
6. Intercultural Communication & Globalization
7. Intercultural Rhetoric & Discourse

Presentations will be allowed 20 minutes plus an additional 10 minutes for discussion. Please submit a 250-word abstract by 30th of June 2011 to Pr. Abdelkader Sabil (abdelkaders@gmail.com). Abstracts should include: Title of Paper, Family Name (s), First Name (s), Institutional Affiliation, Current Position, an email address and at least 3 keywords that best describe the subject of your submission.

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out on July 30th. 2011.

Selected papers will be published in Special Volumes of Conference Proceedings.

The conference registration fee is 50 Euros, covering access to all sessions, 2 lunches, coffee breaks and conference materials. Special arrangements will be made with local hotels for a limited number of rooms at a special conference rate.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: abdelkaders@gmail.com

For submissions: abdelkaders@gmail.com

Deadline: 1 June 2011

In an extension of the extremely successful symposium held at the University of Haute Alsace, France 18-20 March 2011, titled “Asian American Literature and Maxine Hong Kingston’s Legacy”, the University of Jendouba co-organizes with UHA an International Conference, titled “Science, Art, and Gender in The Global Rise of Indigenous Languages” to be held in Jendouba, 26-29 October 2011, paying homage to the Tunisian Revolution in January 2011 and honoring the presence, participation and related works of Noam Chomsky and Maxine Hong Kingston (on the usage board of The American Heritage Dictionary of The American Language). The aim of the conference is to address indigenous issues, while also remaining within the continuity of Maxine Hong Kingston’s gender-sensitive literature.

The encounter shall examine the contemporary rise of fully indigenous languages and dialects surviving up and through colonial, technological, mercantile, religious and other dominating languages. All suggestions in relation to these issues are welcome, though we are particularly interested in papers falling under the following panels:

-What makes an indigenous language indigenous?
-Legacy and residuals of indigenous languages from Britain to Brittany, Turkey to Tunisia, Algeria to America.
-Relationship between Arabic and Berber in North Africa.
-Gender issues and representations in literatures about indigenous languages and people.
-Indigenous resistance.
-The School of Genetic Linguistics/ Linguistic Genetics and new colonialism.
-The colonial language layers on indigenous linguistic treasures.
-Similarities between Algonquian Blackfoot and Cree with Hawaiian and Uto-Aztecan.
-Perils and promises of Indigenous languages of the Americas.

Confirmed speakers and paper-providers include Noam Chomsky (who will be at the conference by way of his paper, and possibly by way of a teleconferencing or skyping process), Maxine Hong Kingston, Louis Buff Parry, Yann Kerdiles, Sämi Ludwig, Edward Sklepowich, Mounir Triki, Abderrezak Dourari, Nessima Tarchouna, Leona Makokis/Leona Carter, Lynn Hannachi, Crystal S. Bull and Lewis Cardinal.

To submit a proposal, please email in a word format an abstract (150 words including the title) and a brief biography (50 words) ON or BEFORE June 1st to the following contacts:

-Louis Buff Parry: info@louisbuffparry.com
-Sihem Arfaoui Abidi: aa_sassou@yahoo.com

June 5th notification of selection.

October 24th complete papers.

Contact Information:

For inquiries: info@louisbuffparry.com or aa_sassou@yahoo.com

For submissions: info@louisbuffparry.com or aa_sassou@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.uj.rnu.tn/