LINGUIST List 21.2987 Tue Jul 20 2010 Calls: Socioling/Ireland Editor for this issue: Di Wdzenczny <dilinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.    Svetlana Eriksson, The Collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 Years On Message 1: The Collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 Years On Date: 19-Jul-2010 From: Svetlana Eriksson <krshiakstcd.ie> Subject: The Collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 Years On E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: The Collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 Years On Date: 15-Apr-2011 - 17-Apr-2011 Location: Dublin, Ireland Contact Person: Sarah Smyth Meeting Email: ssmythtcd.ie Web Site: http://www.tcd.ie/Russian/our-languages/conference.php Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 31-Oct-2010 Meeting Description: The 'Our Languages' research team in Trinity College Dublin is hosting two conferences back-to-back in April 2011. In the first conference, "Relocating Cultures", the organisers bring together scholars in the fields of language in society, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language politics, and diaspora and identity studies; the second -'The collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 years on'- is the annual conference of the Irish Association for Russian, Central and East European Studies. These two events target different, but overlapping participants and audiences. The second conference, "The collapse of the Soviet Union: 20 years on" (15-17 April 2011) brings together scholars working across various disciplines in Central and East European studies. We are particularly keen to receive proposals for complete panels but we are also happy to receive paper proposals that can be combined for discussion in any of the following panels: 1.Culture /literature /media; 2.Politics /international relations /political economy; 3.History; 4.Sociology /social anthropology/geography/social policy. Three public lectures by eminent guest speakers will frame the proceedings and broaden the audience yet further. The Wednesday lecture will examine and critique multilingualism and language policy/ policing (Professor Jan Blommaert, Tilberg University); the Thursday lecture will investigate the practices of bi-/pluri-lingual speakers (Professor Li Wei, Birkbeck, University of London); the Friday evening lecture will serve as a bridge between the two conferences and will look at the impact of the collapse of the Soviet Union on Diaspora communities and cultural repertoires. These conferences provide a forum in which scholars interact in dialogue with colleagues from different discipline areas, with different methodologies and theoretical frameworks. The panels will be scheduled sequentially (not in parallel sessions). Speakers will thus be addressing specialists and non- specialists in their field. Call For Papers If you would like to offer a paper, please send an abstract to ssmythtcd.ie by 31st October 2010. The organising committee will agree the first draft programme(s) by the end of November. Participants will be asked to submit their papers/powerpoints by the end of February 2011 for circulation to other members of their panel. If you would like to be kept on or added to the circulation list, please do not hesitate to get in touch. -Sarah Smyth PI ''Our Languages'' Who in Ireland speaks and understands Russian? An investigation into cultural and linguistic diversity Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Jul-2010       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.