The University of Alabama Languages Conference - February 8 - 9, 2019
The organizing committee of the ninth annual University of Alabama Languages Conference is pleased to welcome abstract submissions for this year’s conference entitled “The Words that Shape Us: Language, Culture and Identity” to be held February 8-9, 2019, at Hotel Capstone.
Keynote Speakers:
Manuel Díaz-Campos is Professor of Hispanic Sociolinguistics at Indiana University Bloomington. His research interests include first and second language phonological variation and sociolinguistic variables contributing to dialectal variations in Spanish. He is the editor of The Handbook of Hispanic Sociolinguistics and the author of Introducción a la Sociolingüística Hispánica.
Esther Allen is Professor in the Ph.D. Programs in French and in Latin American, Iberian and Latino Cultures at City University of New York. Co-founder of the PEN World Voices Festival and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, she has twice been a National Endowment for the Arts Translation Fellow. Her 2016 translation of Antonio Di Benedetto's Zama won the the American Literary Translators Association National Translation Award, and she is a 2018 Guggenheim Fellow. (estherallen.com)
Proposals:
We invite you to submit proposals for 20-minute individual presentations as well as organized panels with three or four participants. Suggestions for panels must include individual presenter’s abstract along with a brief description of the panel theme (up to 300 words). Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words to https://ualc.as.ua.edu/call-for-papers/ by November 10, 2018.
We invite abstracts about all languages and all areas of Literature and Linguistics, including, but not limited to:
• Classical Literature
• Renaissance Literature
• Medieval Literature and Culture
• Early Modern Literature and Culture
• 18th and 19th Century Literature and Culture
• 20th and 21st Century Literature and Culture
• Feminism and Women Writers
• Queer and Gender Studies
• Transatlantic and Intercultural Studies
• Storytelling, Mythology, and Memory
• Film and Visual arts
• Anthropological Linguistics
• Bilingualism and Code-switching
• Historical and Comparative Linguistics
• L1, L2, L3 Acquisition and Pedagogy
• Languages in Contact
• Non-verbal Communication, Sign Language
• Phonetics, Phonology, and Dialectology
• Pragmatics
• Psycholinguistics
• Sociolinguistics
• Study Abroad
• Syntax
• TESOL
Presentations should be given in English, French, German or Spanish.