The NYU-CNRS Center for
International Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences invites proposals
for a workshop on “Language and Colonialism” to be held April 4 and 5, 2014 at
New York University.
The relationship between language and processes
of colonization and decolonization has interested fields as diverse as
anthropology, history, sociology, linguistics, and area studies. We aim to
bring together the most vital and original contributions on the topics of language
alienations, resistances, accommodations, refusals, and appropriations, as
articulated in policies and everyday practices.
Priority will be given to proposals on the British, French, Italian, and
Dutch cases. Papers chosen for the workshop will be pre-circulated to
facilitate serious discussion, and an edited volume from the revised papers is
planned. Travel and lodging expenses will be paid for participants.
Some possible themes:
Language and Colonial
Authority
Translators as
Colonial Intermediaries
Language and
Racial Theories and Policies
Language and/of
Missionaries and Religious Orders
Language and
Colonial Education
Uses of the
Vernacular
Language and
Citizenship in the Colonial and Postcolonial Contexts
Linguistic
Dimensions of Transitions to Independence
Postcolonial
legacies of Colonial Language Politics and Policies
Please send an abstract (up to 250 words) and a résumé
to Ruth Ben-Ghiat (
rb68@nyu.edu) and Alice Goheneix Polanski (
agp318@nyu.edu)
by December 20, 2013.
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