Language and Conflict: Politics of Language and Identity across Contexts

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Date: 20 May 2016Time: 9:00 AM

Finishes: 20 May 2016Time: 5:00 PM

Venue: Brunei Gallery Room: B102

Type of Event: Workshop

Keynote speakers:

Prof. Hilary Footitt (University of Reading); Dr Zoë Marriage (Violence, Peace and Development Research Cluster, SOAS, University of London)

Abstract

This one day workshop brings together scholars and graduate students working on the role of language in on-going and post-conflict contexts. Examples could include (but are not limited to) the Middle East, Africa, the Balkans, and Western Europe, including diaspora and migration contexts.

Programme


Brunei Gallery, B102
08:30 - 09:00	Arrival, badges
09:00 - 09:15	OPENING REMARKS Birgul Yilmaz / Julia Sallabank, SOAS
09:15 - 10:00	KEYNOTE LECTURE The Listening Zones of Western intervention: language policies and practices of NGOs Hilary Footitt, University of Reading
PARALLEL SESSIONS
PANEL 1: B102		PANEL 2: B101
10:00 - 10:30	(In)security and 'unease' around the languages of Muslims in the West Kamran Khan, University of Leicester	10:00 - 10:30	Is there any conflict of the Basque language? An early attempt to unmask the conflicting language ideologies in the Basque Country Beñat Garaio, EHU/UPV (University of the Basque Country) & Board Member of GEU Elkartea (Gasteiz)
10:30 - 11:00	The Discourse Analysis of the Language Used in Tanzanian Kiswahili Newspapers Faraja Kristomus, University of Dar es Salaam	10:30 - 11:00	Language and conflict: the Mapuche context Robbie Penman, SOAS, University of London
11:00 - 11:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
11:30 - 12:00	From Minority to Official Language: The New Status of Kurdish Language after 2003 Mohamad Yahya Abdullah (Al Buraimi University College, Buraimi, Oman) and Ahmed Hani Naif (Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia Nilai, Malaysia)	11:30 - 12:00	"They have lived in our street for six years now and still don't speak a work [!] of English": Scenarios of alleged linguistic underperformance as part of anti-immigrant discourses Andreas Musolff, University of East Anglia
12:00 - 12:30	Romeika its social implications: Turkish Nationalism and Socio-cultural differences in public Erol Sağlam, Birkbeck University of London	12:00 - 12:30	Urban Discourses of Moroccan Youth Counterpublics Hamdi Echkaou, University of Mohammed V< Rabat, Morocco
12:30 - 13:30	LUNCH BREAK (SOAS Main Building)
13:30 - 14:15	KEYNOTE LECTURE - B102 Reiterating struggle in an age of liberal peace Zoë Marriage, SOAS, University of London
PARALLEL SESSIONS
PANEL 3, B102		PANEL 4, B101
14:15 - 14:45	Globalisation, transnational identities, and conflict talk: The complexity of the Latino identity Pilar G. Blitvich, University of North Carolina, USA	14:15 - 14:45	Language Politics and National Orientation in Eritrea Chefena Hailemariam, TS4SE Manchester
14:45 - 15:15	"I hope it Brings Wisdom": When ROTC Cadets Reflect on the Effects of Learning Critical Languages on the Development of their Intercultural Communication Competence Emmanuelle Chiocca, Oklahoma University	14:45 - 15:15	Hegemony and Counter-hegemony in the language campaigns in China Lingxia Zhou, SOAS, University of London
15:15 - 15:30	TEA/COFFEE BREAK
15:30 - 16:00	Wekama (Shawi) and Tédújukó (Bora): Language Politics in Peru after the Period of Political Violence Andrés Napurí, Catholic University of Peru	15:30 - 16:00	The Frog and the Phoenix: Genocide and cultural violence and their effects on cultural identity Harry Willoughby, SOAS, University of London
16:00 - 16:30	Assyrians in Iraq - Language Endangerment Policies and Politicising of a Language Nineb Lamassu, Cambridge University
16:40 - 17:00	B102: ROUND-UP AND PLENARY DISCUSSION
DINNER (optional)

Call for Papers

Organizing Committee: Birgul Yilmaz and Dr Julia Sallabank

The workshop aims at exploring the intersection of language and conflict on several levels, stressing the role of language and identity:

Firstly, a micro level with a particular focus on the interactional construction or discourse of conflict (and resolution)
Secondly, we focus on the macro structures of conflict, drawing on processes of language policies and revitalization in such contexts
Thirdly, we focus on the potential role of languages in inter-community, intra-community or social cohesion.

We welcome papers from fields such as:

Sociolinguistics
Linguistic Anthropology
Critical/ Discourse Analysis
Political Science
Conflict, Peace, Violence and Development Studies

Interdisciplinary studies are especially welcome.

This event is a one-day workshop with two keynote presentations and presentations by selected speakers (max. 20), in parallel sessions. We invite 20-minute-long papers contributing to the debate on the relationship between language and conflict contested on interactional and policy-based dimensions. Each of the presenters would have 20 minutes for the talk, plus 10 minutes for questions.

Submissions of 300-word abstracts should be sent to: js72@soas.ac.uk & b_yilmaz@soas.ac.uk

The deadline for submissions is: 30^th March 2016.

Accepted speakers will be notified on: 20^th April 2016.

*Attendance at this workshop is free. We have a small travelling bursary for accepted speakers who are students/ unwaged towards travel costs within the UK.

*Abstracts will be blind reviewed; please make sure that your abstract is blinded as a Word/RTF document or pdf.

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