This conference aims at bringing together researchers interested in multilingualism, language and identity, education, language landscape, language attitudes and change over generations. We live in a dynamic global reality where people migrate from place to place, and the number of people living in a country different from where they were born constantly increases. Some migrate out of choice: work, studies, and family, and many others out of necessity: political persecution, disasters, terrorism, or human rights violations. The increase in the number of immigrants is accompanied by research on social, economic, and linguistic characteristics that affect their integration patterns in host societies. Language repertoires should not be associated with national borders and thus with national languages, but cover various diatopic varieties, as well as minority languages, including those linked to migration experiences. The conference envisions a critical space for stimulating dialogue among international scholars working on, but not limited to the following topics:
- narratives that reflect the complex processes of immigrants’ absorption and immigrants’ culture and relation to the original and to the new society
- societal attitudes towards immigrants
- formal and informal educational support provided by the host country as it affects group vitality
- role of education in maintaining a student’s heritage language, in many cases marking the difference between success and failure.
We welcome original studies which address the following issues:
Language, Identity and Ideology, Multilingualism, Migration, Language Maintenance, Biographies and Narratives, Landscapes and People, Language and Conflict, Heritage Languages, Language and Diaspora.
Submission details:
We encourage proposals for individual papers, roundtable discussions or thematic colloquia sessions. These will include an organizer / moderator and three or four presentations.
Proposals of a maximum of 500 words, including bibliography, and up to five keywords should be submitted by August 31, 2023 to muchnm@gmail.com.
Conference language: English
Invited Speakers:
- Prof. Elite Olshtain, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel
- Prof. Elana Shohamy, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Language and Places: Multilingual Practices and Identity 