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PROGRAMME

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DAY ONE

 

8:30 – 9:00am          

 

9:00 – 9:30am          

 

 

PANEL ONE

 

9:30 – 9:55am        

 

 

 

9:55 – 10:20am       

 

 

 

10:20 – 10:35am       

10:35 – 11:00am      

 

 

 

 

 

11:00 – 11:25am      

 

 

11:25 – 11:45pm

 

 

12:00-12:30pm                     

 

12:45 – 1:45pm         

 

 

 

 

PANEL TWO 

 

2:00 – 2:25pm          

 

 

 

 

2:25 – 2:55pm          

 

 

 

2:55 – 3:20pm        

 

 

3:20 – 3:35pm         

3:35 – 4:00pm          

 

 

 

4:00 – 4:25pm         

 

 

 

 

 

4:25 – 4:45pm

 

4:45 – 5:00pm     

 

5:00 – 6:00pm    

     

 

 

 

 

 

7:00 - 8:00pm          

 

8:00 onwards

 

 

Registration

Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College

 

OPENING REMARKS

PROF DEBORAH CAMERON

(University of Oxford)

 

 

 

Dr Adam Harr

(St Lawrence University, New York) 

“All Politics is Local”: Spatial Deixis as

Rhetoric in an Eastern Indonesian Polity

 

Spencer Chen (UCLA) 

Ideologies and Identities as “Different” Mandarin-Speaking People: Folk Conceptualization of Taiwan Mandarin and Boundary Maintenance

 

Coffee Break


Dr Dionysios Zoumpalidis

(Higher School of Economics, Institute of Education, Moscow, Russsia)

’The Language of My Enemy is My Mother Tongue’: Turkish in the Community of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus

 

Chelsie Yount-André (Northwestern University)

Indexing Integration: Hierarchies of Belonging in Secular Paris

 

Discussion

 

 

Lunch

Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE

DR EREZ LEVON

(Queen Mary University of London)

Parodying Whiteness: Die Antwoord and the Politics of Race in South Africa

 

 

 

Dr Viktoria Khurshudyan 

(SeDyL, CNRS-Inalco-IRD, Paris) 

Obscured Borders of  Migrants’ ‘Locality’: Language and Identity Shift of Armenian Refugees from Azerbaijan: Case Study of Getashen Village

 

Dr Theresia Hofer (University of Oxford)

Indexicality and Tibetanness Through Sign:

Places and Belonging

 

 

Meghanne Barker (University of Michigan)

Longing and Belonging at a Second Home in Kazakhstan

 

Coffee Break

 

Prof Mie Femø Nielsen

& Liv Otto Hassert (University of Copenhagen) How is Belonging to an International Team Co-Created interactionally?

 

Jolien Clijsen

(Meertens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy  of Arts and Sciences) 

Belonging to the Old and Unsuccessfully Aged: Language Practices in a Nursing Home in Maastricht, the Netherlands

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE

PROF NORMA MENDOZA-DENTON

(University of California, Los Angeles)                  

For Boys by Boys: The Entanglement of Designers, Objects, and Players in Videogame Interactions

 

Drinks Reception

Old College Bar, Somerville College

 

Conference Dinner

Somerville College Hall

DAY TWO

 

9:00 – 9:30am     

                               

PANEL THREE

 

9:30 – 9:55am  

 

 

 

9:55 – 10:20am      

 

 

 

 

10:20 – 10:35am   

10:35 – 11:00pm      

 

 

 

11:00 – 11:25pm      

 

 

 

11:25 – 11:45pm

 

 

12:00 – 12:30pm      

 

12:45 – 1:45pm        

 

 

 

 

PANEL FOUR 

 

 2:00 – 2:25pm         

 

 

2:25 – 2:55pm         

 

 

2:55 – 3:20pm         

 

 

3:20 – 3:35pm     

 

3:35 – 4:00pm          

 

4:00 – 4:25pm          

 

 

4:15 – 4:45pm

 

4:45 – 5:00pm         

5:00 – 6:00pm        

 

 

 

 

6:00 – 6:30pm           

 

 

6:30pm onwards       

 

 

 

Registration

Flora Anderson Hall, Somerville College

 

 

 

Dr Abbie Hantgan (SOAS, London)

Choices in Language Accommodation at the Crossroads: Convergence, Divergence, and Mixing

 

Dr Antonia Cristinoi (University of Orléans) 

Multilingualism, Ambiguous Identities and Fuzzy Borders

in “European” Amazonia: A Study of the Relationship 

between Language and Identity in Palikur People from French Guyana

 

Coffee Break

 

Dr Britta Schneider (Free University Berlin)

Kaleidoscopes of Indexicality: The Multiplex Symbolic Functions of Language in Contexts of Unfocused Categories

 

Dr Rebecca Wood 

(University of Montana, Missoula College) 

The Power of Language: Indexicality and the Sociocultural Environment

 

Discussion

 

 

Lunch

Somerville College Hall

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE

DR CATHERINE MILLER

(Aix-Marseille Université)

Language and Ethnic Ideologies in Sudan. In Whose Words?

 

 

 

Dr Nicole Rosen (University of Manitoba)

Transnationalist Vowel Patterns in Filipino Winnipeggers 

 

 

Birgul Yilmaz (SOAS, London)           

Indexing Language and Identity: Kurds of Turkey in London 

 

 

Sonya Kinsey (University of Freiburg)

Our Own Language: Community Language

Shift in Witsuwit’en English

 

Coffee Break

 

Dr Pia Quist (University of Copenhagen)

Dialect and Constructions of Belonging in the "Ghetto”

 

Dr Devyani Sharma (Queen Mary University of London)

Transnational Belonging over Time in British Asian Community 

 

Discussion

 

Break

 

KEYNOTE LECTURE

PROF MICHAEL SILVERSTEIN 

(University of Chicago)

Voicing, Indexical Defaults, and the Tropology of Identity

 

 

CLOSING REMARKS

PROF DAVID PARKIN

(University of Oxford)

 

Walk into Oxford City Centre for Dinner & Drinks (Optional)

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