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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">FYI – this seems like a very interesting conference<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D">Ruth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:#1F497D"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt">Von:</span></b><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt"> owner-cemore-lancs@lists.lancs.ac.uk [mailto:owner-cemore-lancs@lists.lancs.ac.uk]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Symposium: Multilingualism as Migration</span></b><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">University of Luxembourg, Campus Belval</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">3 and 4 July 2017</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Call for papers</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The fourth symposium organised by the Key Area for Migration and Intercultural Studies (MIS) at the University of Luxembourg attempts to describe multilingualism as migration. It tackles multilingualism
as cross-border movement, with borders in this context not restricted to the solely territorial. Describing multilingualism as migration enables the ‘idioms’ (in the broadest sense of the word) involved not to be viewed as fixed, well-defined units but rather
to be understood and described as entities in motion. Texts and the historical and cultural contexts to which they refer can thus be interpreted as the setting for interaction between various linguistic processes. If the linguistic production and allocation
of significance – and thus of communicative relevance – is ultimately considered, in its contingency, as a moment of culture, then it is perhaps possible to achieve even more: for in such an instance, texts which establish a relationship between different
idioms and thus different ways of generating significance are a key space for political discourse on how society should handle culture and cultural differences.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">A corresponding description of texts (in the broadest sense) as a space for political discourse on cultural difference could be particularly fruitful if multilingualism is ‘nailed down’ via its
bearers, i. e., both individual texts or artefacts/performances and historical semantics or discourses.
<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The symposium views multilingualism itself as the variety of methods used to generate significance, with multilingualism thus existing, e. g., under the following circumstances:</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Where the social practices of code switching are in use or contact languages are formed
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Where words from various dialects or standardised national languages are used in (literary) texts
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Where different visual languages or other forms of symbolic understanding are combined in a single performance
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="mso-list:l1 level1 lfo3"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Where historical semantics build on structures and elements of different linguistic and cultural origins</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">In the context of the symposium, migration will be defined as the cross-border movement of linguistically or culturally marked structures and elements. This movement is often linked to the movement
of people, but it can also be medially conveyed. For example, literary texts can engage in forms of language mixing which indicate their authors’ migration from one language area to another. Linguistically hybrid texts such as these generally defy fixed cultural
or linguistic attributions, and thus demonstrate the redundancy of traditional integrations based on taxonomic linguistics. However, it is also conceivable that interaction with another linguistic tradition could result in comprehensive quotations or acquisitions
which could then be described as variations of aesthetic migration. In view of this, migration can shape different forms of movement and demonstrate different directions and degrees of fixedness, which can be traced using the empirical material as a route
of reinterpretation and transformation. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The examination of language movement in and via texts/artefacts/performances and historical semantics can also be related to different forms of human migration and to the resulting cultural and
political configurations. Multilingualism is thus examined as a dynamic process relying on very divergent relationships to the sociocultural context.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">The symposium is, firstly, seeking contributions which attempt to use this description of multilingualism as migration to reap philological benefit and to assess the processes and effects of artistic
multilingualism (in the broadest sense). Secondly, it is looking for the inclusion of sociolinguistic and cultural sciences approaches in the broader sense, enabling language movement to be described on the level of historical semantics and discourses, society
(or societies) and culture(s). Finally, the symposium is intended to encourage attempts to seek links between these two levels of examination.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Interested participants are asked to submit a short abstract of max. 3,000 characters (incl. space characters) to Till Dembeck (<a href="mailto:till.dembeck@uni.lu">till.dembeck@uni.lu</a>).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">The Key Area for Migration and Intercultural Studies (MIS) (<a href="http://www.mis.lu">www.mis.lu</a>) of the University of Luxembourg is happy to cover the accommodation costs (hotel) for the selected speakers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Closing date for the paper proposals: 31/3/2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Feedback for submitters: mid-April 2017<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">For further information: <a href="mailto:till.dembeck@uni.lu">
till.dembeck@uni.lu</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Details for writing the proposal:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Title of the paper<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Max. 3,000 characters (incl. space characters)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Contact address (institution, e-mail, phone and postal address)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">4-5 keywords<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Papers should be in German, French or English.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt">***<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">An event organised as part of the Key Area for Migration and Intercultural Studies (MIS) of the Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education of the University of Luxembourg.</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11.0pt">Planning and organisation: Till Dembeck and Jeanne E. Glesener</span><span lang="DE-CH" style="font-size:11.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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