Dear LANGSCAPE members,
Lutz Küster has kindly shared the below announcement and Call for Papers with the LANGSCAPE coordination, which in turn we will gladly share with all of you.
From 12th to 14th December 2019 the 2nd PERL Conference will be held in Paris under the title “Entre présence et distance”. It will be organised by the team of the “Pôle d’Élaboration de Ressources Linguistiques” (PERL1) at the University of Paris. The focus of the conference will be on language teaching at university in the digital age, a topic that certainly resonates with many of us.
If you would like to speak at the conference yourself, please note the Call for Papers (in French and English) below.
For further information, please visit https://perl2019.sciencesconf.org/
Poster:
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Call for Papers (French/English): Appel_a_comm_PERL2019
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, and friends,
One of our newest members, Euline Cutrim Schmid, has asked me to share the following Call for Papers with all of you. Since the topic is one that is very relevant outside of and within LANGSCAPE, I am very happy to do so. Here it is, without further ado.
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On Monday 1stof July, 2019, Ghent University and Lancaster University will jointly host a symposium to critically reflect on the notion of translanguaging. The concept adopts various guises. It is sometimes defined as a practice, sometimes as a pedagogy and sometimes as a challenge to the very notion of language itself. It has gained traction at a time when understanding the relationship between language and knowledge has become ever-more paramount, a time when institutions and individuals navigate a volume of information that is simultaneously overwhelming and curiously gated. Not unproblematically, translanguaging is a concept that allows for but rarely addresses the full range of semiotic resources employed in contemporary communication: its very name retains an overarching lingual bias. Nonetheless, it is a concept that wrestles with important issues connected with issues of power, of identity and of claiming the right to speak.
In this symposium, we will explore the paradoxes of translanguaging – how it is theorized, used and explained. We seek to clarify but also critically evaluate the concept and to engage participants in discussion of their own and our related research.
The symposium is a combination of traditional paper presentations and a series of keynote discussions. Each keynote discussion is facilitated by an academic who works with multilingual communities and has engaged with work on multilingualism, plurilingualism and/or translanguaging.
The conference will take place at Ghent University. The conference theme – the various guises of translanguaging – invites critical reflections on the notion of translanguaging. The aim of this symposium is to bring together researchers working in different disciplines, to collect a variety of perspectives on translanguaging and to stimulate discussion and participation in a day of collaborative inquiry. We invite you to submit an abstract of max 300 words by the 31thof March. Notification of acceptance will be sent out at the end of April.
Abstracts should be submitted to translanguaging@ugent.be.
More information: www.translanguaging.ugent.be
Organizing commitee: Diane Potts (Lancaster University), Kirsten Rosiers (Ghent University), Stef Slembrouck (Ghent University), Piet Van Avermaet (Ghent University)
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Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, colleagues, and in particular, dear early career researchers,
The ENROPE project’s first Intensive Study Week (ISW#1) will be held from 17th to 21st June at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. It is aimed at early career researchers (MA, doctoral, postdoctoral) working in the field of plurilingualism and education from Higher Education institutions worldwide.
On 1st March, the deadline of the Call for Applications for ENROPE’s ISW#1 has been extended. The new deadline ends on 15th March 2019.
The Intensive Study Week will offer opportunities to:
- discuss issues of pluri-/multilingualism and
education with experts and peers - advance their individual research projects
- reflect their personal identities as researchers
and educators - develop their professional competencies through
innovative (digital) tools
To find out more about the ENROPE Intensive Study Week #1, please see:
ENROPE Call for Applications ISW#1 Berlin (extended version)
To download the ENROPE Call for Applications ISW# 1 Berlin (extended version) poster, please use this link.
To apply for the ENROPE ISW#1, please visit the project’s website.
You are most welcome, and indeed expressly invited, to circulate and disseminate the extended Call for Applications via your professional networks.
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, esteemed colleagues, and friends,
Last year LANGSCAPE’s very own peer-reviewed online journal, titled Language Education and Multilingualism, released its first volume. Since then the editor team, i.e. Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes, Christiane Fäcke and Stephan Breidbach, have not only worked tirelessly to prepare the second volume. But, earlier this year, they also circulated the call for proposals for the third volume of the journal. Said third volume will focus on the topic of Multilingual life in urban linguistic landscapes. The editor team cordially invite your contributions to this volume of the journal.
Please see the call for proposals below for more details on the aim and focus of the volume.
Language Education and Multilingualism publishes original work in English, French, German, or Spanish.
The call for proposals closes on March 1st, 2019. Full articles will be due by August 1st, 2019. Please send your proposal to the following address: langscapejournal@hu-berlin.de
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LEM Vol 3_Call for Papers_english
LEM Vol 3_Call for Papers_español
LEM Vol 3_Call for Papers_français
Please forward this CfP to colleagues interested in the topic and feel free to circulate it widely within your professional networks.
For further information about the journal, please visit the online site of Language Education and Multilingualism – The Langscape Journal or contact langscapejournal@hu-berlin.de
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, and colleagues,
We are very happy to inform you that the next LANGSCAPE meeting will take place during the international conference on “Family languages: attitudes, uses, policies and experiences”. The conference, to be held from 5-7 December 2019 in Paris, will be organised by DILTEC from the Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3 in collaboration with the EDA, Université Paris Descartes, the research departments of INALCO, the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, PRAXILING, and the LANGSCAPE network.
Of course, we would like to invite you to not only join us during the conference, but to actively participate as well. For further details, please see the call for papers in French, English and Spanish below.
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
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L’EA 2288 Diltec, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, avec la collaboration de EDA, Université Paris Descartes, l’INALCO, de PRAXILING, Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3 et de Langscape, ont le plaisir de vous annoncer la tenue du colloque international “Les langues dans la famille : attitudes, usages, politiques, histoires”.
Ce colloque a pour but de réunir des équipes de recherche intéressées par les problématiques autour des liens entre la famille, les langues et d’autres institutions socialement plus complexes. 5 axes sont proposés à titre indicatif :
– Transmissions linguistiques et transmissions culturelles
– Acquisition et plurilinguisme
– Perspectives sociolinguistiques
– Les langues de l’enfant : de la maison à l’école et de l’école à la maison
– Approches transversales à partir de corpus littéraires et artistiques
Les thématiques et les approches gagneront à être croisées.
Téléchargez l’appel à propositions ici.
Date limite pour envoi de propositions : 15 mai 2019
Retours du CS prévus pour le 1 juillet 2019
Programme à venir. Propositions à soumettre directement dans le site du colloque https://languesfamille.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
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The Université Sorbonne Nouvelle EA 2288 DILTEC, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, in collaboration with the EDA, Université Paris Descartes, the research departments of INALCO, the Université Paul Valéry Montpellier 3, PRAXILING, and Langscape are pleased to announce the international conference “Family languages: attitudes, uses, policies and experiences”.
The purpose of the conference is to bring together research teams interested in issues around the links between family, languages and other socially more complex institutions. 5 axes are proposed as an indication:
– Linguistic transmission and cultural transmission
– Acquisition and multilingualism
– Sociolinguistic perspectives
– Children’s languages: from home to school and school to home
– Literary and artistic corpus: an interdisciplinary approach
Participants are encouraged to send proposals that cross several axes.
You may download the call for papers here.
You may send your proposal before the 15th of May 2019
Confirmation of acceptance expected by the 1st of July 2019
Program to come. Please submit your proposals on the conference website https://languesfamille.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
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El EA 2288 DILTEC de la Universidad Sorbone Nouvelle – Paris 3, en colaboración con el laboratorio EDA, de la Universidad Paris Descartes, INALCO, PRAXILING de la Universidad Paul ValérieMontpellier 3 y Langscape tienen el placer de anunciar el coloquio internacional “Las lenguas en el seno de la familia: actitudes, usos, políticas e historias”.
El propósito de la conferencia es reunir equipos de investigación cuyos trabajos de investigación tengan relación con los vínculos entre la familia, los idiomas y otras instituciones socialmente más complejas. Se proponen 5 ejes a título indicativo:
– Transmisiones lingüísticas y transmisiones culturales
– Adquisición y plurilingüismo
– Perspectivas sociolingüísticas
– Las lenguas del niño/ la niña: de la casa a la escuela y de la escuela a la casa
– Enfoques transversales basados en corpus literarios y artísticos
Se recomienda enviar propuestas que integren varios ejes.
La convocatoria puede ser descargada desde aquí.
La fecha límite de envío de propuestas es el 15 de mayo de 2019
Respuesta del CS prevista para el 1 de julio de 2019
El programa se comunicará próximamente El envío de propuestas se realiza directamente desde la página del coloquio https://languesfamille.sciencesconf.org/submission/submit
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Dear fellow LANGSCAPE members,
we would like to bring a new video regarding multilingualism to your attention. It was recently published by Durk Gorter and Jasone Cenoz as part of their work for the ‘Donostia Research group on Education and Multilingualism’ (DREAM) of the UPV/EHU (Universidad del País Vasco / Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea) and illustrates their research on multilingualism in educational settings in the Basque Country, dealing with translanguaging, multilingual language education and CLIL.
To see the video on youtube.com, please follow this link.
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, colleagues, and friends,
We are glad to invite you to participate in the ENROPE project’s first Intensive Study Week. It will be held from 17th to 21st June at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and is aimed at early career researchers (MA, doctoral, postdoctoral) working in the field of plurilingualism and education from Higher Education institutions worldwide.
The Study Week will offer opportunities to:
- discuss issues of pluri-/multilingualism and
education with experts and peers - advance their individual research projects
- reflect their personal identities as researchers
and educators - develop their professional competencies through
innovative (digital) tools
To find out more about the ENROPE Intensive Study Week #1, please see:
To apply for the ENROPE Intensive Study Week #1, please visit the project’s website.
Of course, you are invited and whole-heartedly encouraged to circulate this Call for Applications within your professional networks.
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear fellow LANGSCAPE members, colleagues, and friends,
Today, I am very happy to announce that the new LANGSCAPE website is online! After many unforeseen delays, work on the site has finally progressed so far that we have decided to make it available to you and the wider public. Without more ado, please let me invite you to visit our new LANGSCAPE website at https://langscape.hu-berlin.de/en/.
Of course, work on the site, not to mention constant maintenance, are ongoing. Accordingly, your feedback will be needed to continually improve our webpage. If you do have any suggestions or constructive criticism, please let me know via langscape@hu-berlin.de
Kind regards,
Florian Möller
Dear LANGSCAPE members, friends, and colleagues,
The call for contributions to the 3rd volume of LEM is now open.
This volume will focus on the topic of Multilingual life in urban linguistic landscapes. Please see the call for papers below for a full description of the aim and focus of the volume.
The journal publishes original work in English, French, German, or Spanish.
The call for proposals closes on March 1st, 2019. Full articles will be due by August 1st, 2019. Please send your proposal to the following address: langscapejournal@hu-berlin.de
LEM_Vol 3_Call for Papers_deutsch
LEM_Vol 3_Call for Papers_english
LEM_Vol 3_Call for Papers_español
LEM_Vol 3_Call for Papers_français
Please forward this CfP to colleagues interested in the topic and circulate it widely within your professional networks.
For further information about the journal, please visit the LANGSCAPE website or the online site of Language Education and Multilingualism – The Langscape Journal.
Kind regards,
Stephan Breidbach (editor)
Christiane Fäcke (editor)
Marie-Françoise Narcy-Combes (editor)
Dear fellow LANGSCAPE members,
In early November the volume “Sloganization in Language Education Discourse”, edited by Barbara Schmenk, Stephan Breidbach and Lutz Küster, was published by Multilingual Matters. In close coopertation with the book’s editors the authors David Gramling, Dietmar Rösler, Gerhard Bach, Britta Viebrock, John Plews, David Block and Aneta Pavlenko contributed chapters to this interesting critical analysis of conceptual thinking in the age of academic marketization.
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This recent publication focuses (self-)critically on sloganization as an emergent phenomenon in language education discourse. Motivated by an increasing uneasiness with a number of widespread concepts in current language education research that have become sloganized, this volume comprises a collection of chapters by international scholars that scrutinize the discourse of language education, identify popular slogans and reconstruct the sloganization processes. It promotes critical self-reflection of scholars and professionals in the field of language education – a field that has widely been dominated by the need to develop innovative approaches and practices, at the expense of self-critical work that attempts to situate the field and its approaches within wider historical, cultural and conceptual contexts. |
Further information about the book please visit the corresponding Multilingual Matters website.
Kind regards,
Florian Möller