LINGUIST List 23.930 Fri Feb 24 2012 Confs: Basque, Italian, Spanish, English, Anthroling, Socioling/USA Editor for this issue: Amy Brunett <brunettlinguistlist.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.     Viola Miglio , Identity and Diversity: Language & Cultural Rights Message 1: Identity and Diversity: Language & Cultural Rights Date: 21-Feb-2012 From: Viola Miglio <migliospanport.ucsb.edu> Subject: Identity and Diversity: Language & Cultural Rights E-mail this message to a friend Identity and Diversity: Language & Cultural Rights Short Title: MLD2012 Date: 23-Feb-2012 - 24-Feb-2012 Location: Santa Barbara, CA, USA Contact: Viola Miglio Contact Email: < click here to access email > Meeting URL: http://tinyurl.com/mld2012 Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Sociolinguistics Subject Language(s): English; Icelandic; Italian; Spanish Language Family(ies): Basque Meeting Description: Every year UNESCO observes the International Mother Language Day on February 21st, in remembrance of the students that died in Dhaka (Bangladesh) during the Bengali Language Movement protests in 1952. UCSB's Spanish and Portuguese Department commemorates this day with a yearly conference. This year it will take place on Thursday, February 23rd (IHC - McCune Room) and Friday, February 24th (Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House), from 8:30 to 3:00 on both days. The conference aims to promote multilingualism, awareness of the plight of language minorities, tolerance towards different cultures, and the preservation of linguistic diversity. The focus of the conference this year is on 'Protecting Identity and Diversity: Language and Cultural Rights' from a linguistic, as well as a legal perspective. The 2012 conference also marks UCSBʼs official launch of the Consortium on Training in Language Documentation and Conservation (www.ctldc.org). THURSDAY - FEB 23rd, MCCUNE ROOM, HSSB Bldg - University of California, Santa Barbara Campus 8:30-9:10 Opening the sessions: Prof. Silvia Bermúdez, Chair of Spanish and Portuguese. Address by Chancellor Henry Yang Prof. Carol Genetti, Associate Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts: 'Preserving the World's Linguistic Diversity' 9:10-9:55 'Translation and Small Nations - Galicia and Ireland'. M. TERESA CANEDA CABRERA, Associate Professor, English and Translation Studies, University of Vigo, Galicia 9:55-10:40 'Saving Northern Italian Dialects' in the Political Rhetoric of the Lega Nord'. MAURIZIO TANI, Lecturer, Italian History, University of Iceland, Reykjavík 10:40 - 11:00 Poster session & mid-morning coffee Mariška Bolyanatz and Bryan Kirschen: Minority Language Policy and Practice: Three Case Studies. (CEEEUS, UCLA) Jhonni Carr and Armando Guerrero, Jr.: Myths and Realities about Bilingual Speakers in the U.S. (CEEEUS, UCLA) Michael Harris and Stefan Gries: Metrics of Vowel Durational Variability of US Heritage Spanish and Mexican Spanish Speakers: Rhythm and Aptitude (Dept. Spanish and Portuguese / Dept. of Linguistics, UCSB) Belen Villarreal, Nancy Ballesteros and Covadonga Lamar Prieto: Language Attitudes towards the Use of Spanish in the 2012 Golden Globe Awards. (CEEEUS, UCLA) 11:00-11:45 'English in the North: the Scandinavian Languages and Globalisation'. KRISTJÁN ÁRNASON, Professor of Linguistics, University of Iceland, Reykjavík; Former Director of the Academy of the Icelandic Language 11:45-12:30 'Are We Worse than Pagans? How Mission Law Helped Basques Baptize their Children in their Own Language'. OSCAR ALVAREZ, Professor of History, University of the Basque Country 12:30-1:30 Lunch - Graduate Poster session continued 1:30-2:15 'Minority Languages in Los Angeles'. CLAUDIA PARODI, Professor of Spanish Linguistics; Centro de Estudios del Español de los Estados Unidos (CEEEUS), UCLA 2:15-3:00 'Revitalization of Endangered Languages from the Exile: the Case of Basque'. XABIER IRUJO, Associate Professor of Legal and Political History, Center for Basque Studies, University of Nevada, Reno Friday - Feb 24th Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House - University of California, Santa Barbara Campus 8:30 - 9:00 Opening the sessions: Prof. Cynthia S. Kaplan, Dept. of Political Science, UCSB: 'Reflections upon Language Policy in Russia (Tatarstan), Estonia, and Kazakhstan' 9:00-9:45 'Horne v. Flores and the Future of Language Policy'. CECILIA RIOS- AGUILAR, Associate Professor, School of Educational Studies, Claremont Graduate University 9:45-10:30 'International Law and the (Difficult and Imperfect) Protection of Language and Culture'. FERNAND DE VARENNES, 2004 Linguapax Laureate/ Visiting Professor - Peking Faculty of Law; Editor- in-Chief, Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law; Senior Researcher, International Observatory on Language Rights, Université de Moncton, Canada 10:30 - 10:45 Mid-morning coffee 10:45-11:30 'Language and culture in Canadian Law and Jurisprudence'. PIERRE FOUCHER, Professor of Constitutional Law, Faculty of Law, University of Ottawa 11:30-12:15 'Status of Basque in France'. ENERITZ ZABALETA, Centre de Documentation et de Recherches Européennes, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour 12:15-1:45 Lunch 1:45-2:45 Undergraduate Poster Session on the topic 'Attitudes Towards Spanish in the US' 1:45-2:45 'Counteracting Language Globalization in Media: A Comparative Legal Analysis on the Instruments for Defending National and Regional Languages in the European Media Environment'. Videorecorded lecture by IÑIGO URRUTIA, Professor of Administrative Law, University of the Basque Country 2:45 Closing Remarks. VIOLA MIGLIO, Associate Professor of Linguistics and Barandiarán Chair of Basque Studies, Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 24-Feb-2012       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.