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PROGRAMME

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DAY ONE

10:00 -10:30   Registration

                       Flora Anderson Hall

10:30 -11: 00  OPENING REMARKS

                       PROF LESLEY MILROY

                       (University of Michigan)

PANEL ONE

Chair: Dr Kinga Kozminska

11:00 -11:25  Camille Jacob

                     (University of Portsmouth)

                     Back to futur? English, globalisation

                     and authenticity in Algeria.

11:25 -11:50  Brian Young (University of Oxford)

                     Dzongkha, GNH and the Hegemonic in Bhutan:

                     Manufacturing Nationalism and Transnational

                     Belonging through Language 

11:50 -12:05 Coffee Break

12:05 -12:30 Dr Csanad Bodo (Eötvös Loránd University)

                    & Dr Noemi Fazakas (Sapientia Hungarian

                    University of Transylvania)

                    Saving the national language: Globalisation, 

                    nationalism, and the revitalisation of Hungarian 

                    in North-East Romanian Moldavia

12:30 -12:55 Dr Nicole Gallant (INRS University of

                     Quebec) & Prof Laurie Carlson Berg

                     (University of Regina)

                    Social versus State representations of belonging

                    Fransaskoisie: Competing ideologies regulating

                    the inclusion of French-speaking immigrants 

                    in English Canada

12:55 -13:20 Dr Valentina Serreli (University of Aix-Marseille)

                    Language ideologies and performance of identity

                    and belonging in 'globalising' Siwa (Egypt)

13:20 -13:45 Discussion

13:45 -14: 45 Lunch 

15:00 -16:00 KEYNOTE LECTURE               

                     PROF CLARE MAR-MOLINERO

                    (University of Southampton)

                    The impact of transnational migration and  

                    global mobilities on language ideologies  

                    and language practices: examples from the                                   

                   Spanish-speaking world

16:00 -16:15 Break

 

PANEL TWO 

Chair: Dr Nancy Hawker

16:15 -16:40 Dr Yolandi Ribbens-Klein

                    (University of Cape Town)

                    The embodiment of place and belonging:

                    boorlinge and inkommers in (im)mobility

16:40 -17:05 Marina Massaguer Comes

                    (Open University of Catalonia) 

                     Languages, belonging and social categories

                     in Catalonia: non-Catalan speaking perspectives

17:05 -17:15  Discussion

18:30 -19:15  Drinks Reception: Flora Anderson Hall,

                      Somerville College

19:30onwards Conference Dinner

                      Somerville College Hall

DAY TWO

9:00 -9:30 Registration

Flora Anderson Hall

9:30 - 10:15 KEYNOTE LECTURE

                    PROF INGRID PILLER

                    (Macquarie University)

                    Linguistic shirkers and integration                                   refuseniks? The exclusionary consequences                       of discourses about migrant language                             learning

 

PANEL THREE

Chair: Leonie Schulte

 

10:15 - 10:40 Dominique Bürki 

                     (University of Bern)

                     The impact of language policies and                              global movement in Saipan: English as an                      L1 on the merge

10:40 -11:05 Dr Pamela Innes (University of Wyoming)                         & Prof Unnur Dís Skaptadóttir                                           (University of Iceland)                       

                      Language, Identity and Belonging:

                      The Situation in Iceland

11:05 -11:20 Coffee Break 

11:20 -11:55 Maria Martika & Eleni Ntalampyra                                  & Dr Birgul Yilmaz                

                     (Hellenic Open University)

                    Language ideologies among refugees in                         Greece

11:55 -12:20 Dr Kamran Khan

                     (King's College London)

                     The responsibilisation of citizenship                                language test preparation in the UK: the                          promise of inclusion and reality of potential                      exclusion

12:20 -12:45 Carlie Fitzgerald (University of Essex)

                     The Transformation of Experience

                     in Asylum Narratives

12:45 - 13:10 Discussion

13:10 -14:00 Lunch 

14:10 -15:10 KEYNOTE LECTURE

                    DR ENAM AL-WER

                    (University of Essex)

                    The evolution of sectarian linguistic                                 stratification: Jordan as a case study

PANEL FOUR

Chair: Rosemary Hall

15:10 -15:35 Zuzana Elliott (University

                of Edinburgh)                                                                A sociophonetic investigation of FACE and 

             GOAT monophthongisation and Scottish identity               construction in Slovak immigrants in Edinburgh

15:35 -16:00 Ayten Alibaba & Dr Jo Angouri

                    (University of Warwick)

                    Belonging in Context: The case of Turkish                         Cypriot community in London

16:00 -16:15 Coffee Break 

16:15 -16:40 Dr Mariam Durrani (Harvard University)     

                    (Im)Mobility of Urdu-English Mixing:                                Analyzing Hybrid Linguistic Performative                          Economies among Pakistani-origin Muslim                        Youth

16:40 -17:05 Hanan Ben Nafa (Manchester                                        Metropolitan University)

                    Code-switching as a token of emotional                           acculturation: the case of Arabic-English                           bilinguals in Manchester. 

17:05 -17:30 Farzad Karimzad & Lydia Catedral

                    (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)

                    Mobile (dis)connection: Migrant narratives

                    about social media and the homeland

17:30 -18:00 Discussion

DAY THREE

 

9:00 -9:30  Registration

                  Flora Anderson Hall

 

9:30 -10:30 KEYNOTE LECTURE

                   PROF MARCO JACQUEMET

                   (University of San Francisco)

                    Do we still belong to speech communities?

                    Mobility, the loss of indexical knowledge,

                    and the primacy of denotational meaning

PANEL FIVE

Chair: Dr Nancy Hawker

10:30 -10:55 Dr Vlada Baranova (National                                         Research University "Higher School of                             Economics) & Dr Kaptiolin Fedorova                               (European University at St.Petersburg)

                    'Invisible minorities' and 'hidden diversity':                       the linguistic landscape of Saint-Petersburg                       and discourses about migrants in language                     planning

10:55 -11:20 Dr Andrew Wong (California State                                  University, East Bay)

                     Authenticity, Belonging and Charter Myths                      of Cantonese

11:20 -11:45 Discussion

11:45 -13:00 ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION

                     Chair: PROF DEBORAH CAMERON                                (University of Oxford)

                Discussants:

                DR ELENA FIDDIAN-QASMIYEH

                (University College London)

                PROF ANNABELLE MOONEY                                       (University of Roehampton)

                DR ZUZANNA OLSZEWSKA 

                (University of Oxford)

                PROF PETER PATRICK

                (University of Essex)

13:00 -13:30 CLOSING REMARKS

                PROF DAVID PARKIN 

                (University of Oxford)

13:30 -14:00 Lunch

SCHOOL OF ANTHROPOLOGY

AND MUSEUM OF ETHNOGRAPHY

INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL 

AND CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY

FACULTY OF ORIENTAL STUDIES

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