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mod-lang.salford.ac.uk>EUROPEAN STUDIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE University of Salford, UK International Conference: BEYOND BOUNDARIES? CITIZENS, CULTURES AND LANGUAGES IN THE NEW EUROPE 10-12 November 1994 The European Studies Research Institute (ESRI), University of Salford, is marking its first anniversary with a cross-disciplinary conference. ESRI is organised in four centres: LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS, Contemporary History & Politics, Literary & Cultural Studies and Policy Studies. The Conference, organised around the emergence of a new Europe, is intended to bring together researchers who wish to cross disciplinary boundaries and address both specific and general issues having to do with the recomposition and reconstruction of Europe at many levels (LINGUISTIC, socio-political, historical, literary, cultural, economic and environmental). The Conference will be organised in the form of keynote plenary papers which will address common, overarching issues, and provide a focus for a series of parallel sessions corresponding to the more specialised interests of the various centres. The core issues which will be addressed in the sessions will include: LINGUISTIC MINORITIES AND LANGUAGE POLICIES IN EUROPE; CULTURAL AWARENESS AND LANGUAGE; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE AND TRANSLATION; Literature and identity; Critical theory and European writing; Shaping the new Europe - convergence or divergence?; Democracy, minorities and the nation state; Environmental policy-making in Europe. Speakers will include: JACQUES DURAND (Salford) CHARLOTTE HOFFMANN (Salford) NIGEL VINCENT (Manchester) JOHN LAVER (Edinburgh & British Academy) Submissionss of papers are invited. For more information or offers of papers, write to Prof Jacques Durand, ESRI, Crescent House, University of Salford, Salford, GB-M5 4WT, UK. Please provide a title and, if possible, a short abstract (250 words). Deadline for titles and abstracts: 15 September 1994.Mail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue