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Subject: [LING-ETHNOG] Seminar 11/12 June - Conceptualizing multilingualism under superdiversity: Membership claims, social categories, and emblems of authenticity
BAAL/CUP Two Day Seminar:
Conceptualizing multilingualism under superdiversity: Membership claims, social categories, and emblems of authenticity.
Date: 11th and 12th June 2013.
Venue: School of Education, University of Birmingham
The University of Birmingham’s MOSIAC Centre for Research on Multilingualism and the IRiS Institute for Research on Superdiversity will host a two day seminar at the School of Education, University of Birmingham.
Objectives of the seminar
1. To explore recent research which questions the stability of social categories such as language, community, and ethnicity in contexts of globalization and multilingualism.
2. To provide a forum to engage in close analysis of identity and membership claims in linguistic interaction.
3. To consider the implications of these discussions for social policy.
Invited speakers:
· Adrian Blackledge and Angela Creese (University of Birmingham)
· Hugh Escott and Kate Pahl (University of Sheffield)
· Kamran Khan (University of Birmingham)
· Michele Koven (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
· Adrienne Lo (University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign)
· Ben Rampton (King’s College London)
· Caroline Tagg (University of Birmingham)
· Sabina Vakser (University of Melbourne)
Discussant: Jenny Phillimore (University of Birmingham)
Speaker abstracts attached.
Attendance is limited to 35 participants. All participants must register. Although the event is free, participants will cover their own lunch, dinner, travel and accommodation costs.
This event is run in partnership with the Linguistic Ethnography Forum and with financial support provided by the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), Cambridge University Press and the University of Birmingham.
Please complete the attached form (‘Expression of interest’) and send to Ann Bolstridge [log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]><mailto:[log in to unmask]>. Please return by April 26th 2013. Please note numbers are limited.
Places will be allocated through combination of research fit and first-come-first-served basis.
Final programme and allocation of places May 19th 2013.
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