LINGUIST List 21.4337 Sat Oct 30 2010 Calls: Sociolinguistics/Italy 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.     Giovanni Iamartino , Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe Message 1: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe Date: 30-Oct-2010 From: Giovanni Iamartino <giovanni.iamartinounimi.it> Subject: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe Date: 06-Jun-2011 - 08-Jun-2011 Location: Gargnano del Garda (Brescia), Italy Contact Person: Giovanni Iamartino Meeting Email: giovanni.iamartinounimi.it Web Site: http://users.unimi.it/cirsil_mi Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 30-Nov-2010 Meeting Description: The conference welcomes papers on historical studies (approximately, 1500-1900) consistent with such research topics as Women as language users; Women learning and teaching foreign languages; Language books for women; Women in language books; Women, foreign languages and society. Call For Papers Dear Colleague, Following the most successful conference held in Granada on 5-7 November 2008, you are cordially invited to an international conference entitled Female Voices: Women and foreign languages in modern Europe to be held at Palazzo Feltrinelli in Gargnano on Lake Garda, 6th to 8th June 2011. The Conference will be jointly organized by the Department of Language Studies and Compared Literature of the University of Milan and CIRSIL - Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca per la Storia degli Insegnamenti Linguistici (i.e.the Italian interuniversity research centre for the history of foreign language teaching) - in co-operation with the sister associations and research groups in France (SIHFLES: Société Internationale pour l'Histoire du Français Langue Étrangère ou Seconde), the Netherlands (PHG: Peeter Heynsgenootschap, Learned society for the history of language teaching), Portugal (APHELLE: Associação Portuguesa para a História do Ensino das Línguas e Literaturas) and Spain (SEHEL: Sociedad Española para la Historia de las Enseñanzas Lingüísticas). The conference welcomes historical studies (approximately, 1500-1900) on any topic consistent with the theme of the conference. The following rubrics and suggestions may be useful: - Women as language users: -women as foreign language speakers -women and language skills -women and plurilingualism -women and the study of modern vs classical languages -women translators and their job - Women learnigng and teaching foreign languages: -genre-based linguistic education -learning foreign languages at home or at girls' schools -foreign language teaching methodology and women -women as foreign language teachers -syllabuses for teaching women foreign languages - Language books for women: -grammar books, manual and dictionaries for women -bilingual or multilingual manuals of conversation for women -reading books for girls -the authors of language books and manuals for women - Women in language books: -women's words and the women's world in dictionaries -teaching grammar and morality in grammar books for women -women in travel guides - WOMEN, FOREIGN LANGUAGES AND SOCIETY: -'female' vs 'male' languages -foreign languages and gender stereotypes -women's reactions to sexism in languages -women, foreign languages and different worldviews -schools, colleges, and academies for teaching girls foreign languages -teaching politeness strategies, address forms and speech acts in foreign languages in order to convey or subvert traditional roles and behaviours Abstracts of no more than 300 words in .doc or .rtf format are to be sent to the local representatives of the scientific committee: - Giovanni Iamartino, for Italian, English, German and Dutch - giovanni.iamartinounimi.it - Nadia Minerva, for French - nadia.minervaunict.it, nadia.minervaunibo.it - Félix San Vicente, for Spanish and Portuguese - felix.sanvicenteunibo.it The deadline for abstracts is the 30th of November 2010, acceptance will be notified by the 15th of January 2011. Papers should be 20 mins in length, with around 5 to 10 mins allotted for discussion. A few invited speakers are being contacted by the scientific committee; their names and the titles of the lectures will be given in the second circular. The scientific committee is composed of the following: - for CIRSIL, Giovanni Iamartino (Milan), Nadia Minerva (Catania), Félix San Vicente (Bologna/Forlì) - for SIHFLES, Michel Berré (Mons), Marie-Christine Kok Escalle (Utrecht), Karène Sanchez (Leyde) - for APHELLE, Fátima Outeirinho (Porto), Maria José Salema (Minho), Ana Clara Santos (Algarve), - for SEHEL,Javier Suso López, Mª Eugenia Fernández Fraile (Granada) - for PHG, Gijsbert Rutten (Leiden University & University of Brussels - VUB) The Milan-based organizing committee is chaired by professor Giovanni Iamartino, and is composed by Angela Andreani, Barbara Berti, Kim Grego and Andrea Nava. Conference organization Gargnano del Garda is a small idyllic village on Lake Garda, which can be reached by car or coach. The nearest airports are Milan Linate, Bergamo Orio al Serio and Verona: all of these have coach and/or train connections to Gargnano. Conference delegates from abroad or from distant places in Italy are expected to get to Gargnano on June 5th, as the conference will start mid-morning on Monday 6th. It will close on Wednesday 8th at about 13.00. Details on registration procedure, as well as on accommodation and meal options, will be given in the second circular and posted on the conference website, which is currently under construction (http://users.unimi.it/cirsil_mi). We all look forward to meeting you in Gargnano! Giovanni Iamartino Nadia Minerva Félix San Vicente Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 30-Oct-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.