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Languages of Internationalism
Conference to take place at Birkbeck College, University of London
25-26 May 2017
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 1 September 2016
Scholars have in recent years re-energized the study of how peoples,
cultures, and economies came, over time, to be linked and entangled
across all manner of borders. Transnationalism and internationalism
continue to be the watchwords of much humanities and social sciences
scholarship. Yet insufficient attention has been paid to the crucial
politics of language in historical scenarios of internationalism as a
lived or imagined human enterprise. Organised by the Reluctant
Internationalists research group at Birkbeck College London in
collaboration with Dr. Brigid O’Keeffe from Brooklyn College, CUNY, this
conference will bring together historians, anthropologists, literary
scholars, linguists, and scholars in related fields, to debate the
languages of internationalism.
The goal of the conference is to shed light on the centrality of
language to people’s past pursuit and experience of internationalism.
Historians must better understand the linguistic realities that their
subjects confronted in their various global networks and endeavors. For
any agents of internationalism, language presented a wide variety of
challenges and opportunities. It imposed obstacles and provided avenues
to mutual understanding and collaboration among diverse peoples. The
relative successes and failures of past internationalist projects in
large measure owed to participants’ ability to effectively communicate
across not just linguistic, but also political, cultural, economic, and
professional boundaries. This fundamental and literal question of
(mis)communication has dramatically shaped the lives of peoples
variously confronting the global realities or pretensions of their milieus.
Conference participants will consider the frustrations and triumphs of
human beings, in a wide variety of historical contexts, as they deployed
language in their efforts to communicate across borders. In this way,
the conference seeks better historical appreciation and understanding of
language as a linchpin of transnational and international histories.
Submissions of individual papers on the following themes and topics are
especially encouraged:
Languages of Internationalism: When and why have languages helped or
hindered internationalist projects? Roles played by lingua francas;
bi-lingualism and multi-lingualism in border areas, cities, schools,
refugee or POW camps; sign languages and deaf histories in global
perspective; artificial languages as international auxiliary languages
Language in Global Diplomacy and Cross-Cultural Exchange:Language
politics by and within international organizations, including the League
of Nations, United Nations, and others; (mis-)communication and
international diplomacy; roles of interpreters and interpreting;
connections between language and diplomatic failure; the role of
language in educational, scholarly or artistic exchange programs
(Mis-)Communicating Expertise in Science, Medicine, and Scholarship more
generally: languages of technocracy; experts’ views on and uses of
language and strategies of communication; international scholarly
communities and the transmission of knowledge; differences between
different fields of expertise; experts’ changing conceptions of ‘the
public’ and how it can be reached
Language Politics During and After Empire: Communication and questions
of (linguistic) authority in colonial contexts; language and
interpersonal relationships within and across empires; language and
colonial diplomacy; language and postcolonial critique
Linguistic Rights and Endangered Languages: Linguistic Rights;
standardization and imposition of official or national languages;
endangered languages and globalization Mass Media, Language, and Idea
Transmission on the Global Stage: Communication and linking technologies
such as the post, telegraph, radio, tv, and internet; language and
global marketing; international publishing and translation projects
Please send paper titles, abstracts (300 – 400 words), and a brief
academic biography (200 words) by 1 September 2016 to Brigid O’Keeffe
(Brooklyn College, CUNY), [email protected]
There will be no conference fee. There will be limited funding available
to contribute to the accommodation in London of junior scholars and
those from institutions without research funds.
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