Dear all,

 

(Sorry for cross-posting)

 

                                                               

Multilingualism and Identity: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Conference organised by Linda Fisher and Wendy Ayres-Bennett

as part of the AHRC funded OWRI research project, Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals, Transforming Societies (MEITS)

11 September 2019 - 13 September 2019

Murray Edwards College University of Cambridge, United Kingdom 

 

Abstracts are invited for presentations at the conference. Papers should address explicitly issues of identity and multilingualism. We particularly welcome submissions which take an interdisciplinary approach to the topic. 

 

1. Abstracts of a maximum of 350 words should be submitted via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=miip2019)
2. Proposals should be for an oral presentation (length of presentation: 20 + 10 min.)
3. Submissions must be anonymous and all author-related file properties must be removed, though please state if you are an Early Career researcher. Please include 4 keywords right below the title of the abstract. The working language of the conference is English.

 

Important Dates

 

1. The submission of abstracts opens on 1 December (GMT: 00:01 am) 2018 and closes on 4 February (GMT: 11:59 pm) 2019.
2. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by Monday 4 March 2019. Only those with successful submissions will be contacted.

 

Keynote Speakers

 

•           Professor David Block (ICREA, Universitat de Lleida)

•           Professor Patricia Duff (University of British Columbia)

•           Professor Bonny Norton (University of British Columbia)

•           Professor Alastair Pennycook (University of Technology, Sydney)

•           Professor Alison Phipps (University of Glasgow

 

 

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to [log in to unmask]. Please find more information on conference themes at: http://www.meits.org/events/event/multilingualism-and-identity-interdisciplinary-perspectives

 

Best wishes,

Annette

 

 

Hui Zhao (Annette) [赵慧]
Research Associate

 

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies
University of Nottingham
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