University of Pennsylvania - Folklore and Folklife - Building Bridges in the City and Beyond CFP

Building Bridges in the City and Beyond: Languages, Communities, and Cultures

Language, Literacy, and Culture Program,
University of Maryland,
Baltimore County, MD

'Building Bridges in the City and Beyond: Languages, Communities, and Cultures' is an interdisciplinary conference hosted by the Language, Literacy, and Culture Program at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. The goal of this conference is to build bridges among educators, scholars, artists, activists, residents, city planners, and public officials whose respective work engages issues of 'the city' or 'city life.' Featured plenary speaker: Dr. Barbara Johnstone of Carnegie Mellon. The conference will have two main thrusts: 1) to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue about issues of language, community, and culture in the contemporary city and its surroundings; and 2) to promote dialogue about these issues as they relate specifically to Baltimore City. Interested participants are encouraged to submit proposals for individual papers, panels, workshops, exhibits, discussion circles or breakout sessions.

Possible topics include:

Art, Borders, Cities/Counties, Citizenship, Communication, Communities, Cultures, Ethnography, Filmmaking, Genders, Gentrification, Geographies, Graffiti, Identities, Immigrants, Intercultural, Languages, Literacy, Mapping, Murals, Neighborhoods, Outsiders and Outlaws, Places, Planning, Policy, Political Economy, Pragmatics, Public Discourse, Storytelling, Spaces, Sexualities, Urban/Suburban, Verbal/Visual

Papers and presentations will be selected for inclusion on the basis of merit. All submissions must contain the following information for all proposed speakers.

Name
Affiliation
E-mail address
Mailing address, phone, and fax number
Title of paper or presentation
Brief description / summary of paper or presentation (250-300 words)

Organizers of panels, workshops, discussion circles or breakout sessions must provide the above information for each participant, together with their own contact information, and a brief description/summary (250-300 words) of the overall rationale for the proposed panel or session.

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: 31 August 2007

The preferred method of communication is e-mail. Be sure to include your e-mail address when contacting conference organizers. Please send abstracts to: LLCBALTIMORE@gmail.com or for other information, please contact:

Dr. Christine Mallinson
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Language, Literacy and Culture Program
http://www.umbc.edu/llc
410-455-5669

Dr. Denis M. Provencher
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Department of Modern Languages and Linguistics
http://www.umbc.edu/mll
410-455-2636

Information updates will be posted regularly on the UMBC Language, Literacy, and Culture Program website: www.umbc.edu/llc