Call for Participation: International PhD students conference: Borderlands, Minorities, Migrations as part of the NAWA-PROM PROJECT “International Scholarship Exchange of PhD Candidates and Academic Staff” within the Operational Programme Knowledge Education Development, co-financed from the European Social Fund
This two-day conference for PhD students working on different topics related to minority languages, cultures and migration will serve as an occasion to present the ongoing research and to discuss it.
Over the last few decades, we can observe a great interest in sustaining the linguistic diversity of the world. There is a growing number of language activists and efforts aimed at not only protecting minority languages at the legal level, so that they are recognized by states and dominant communities, but also maintaining them in use and reinstating their lost domains of usage. Scholars researching language shift and loss, language revival and revitalization underline that the chosen strategy and its effectiveness depend on multiple factors, such as the ethnolinguistic vitality of a speech community, the level of language loss, language attitudes and language trauma. All these factors influence (potential) speakers’ opportunities, capacity and motivation to use and to transmit languages which always have a lower position on the linguistic market than the dominant languages. Increasingly, linguistic changes are related to migration processes and intercultural relations on the borderlands.
The aim of the conference is to jointly reflect on these processes and to discuss PhD students’ research on these topics.
The length of the presentation will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes of questions and discussion. All topics related to minority languages, cultures and migrations are welcome.
Language policy: The language of the conference is English. If a presentation is based on data in any other language, the use of multilingual material (e.g. in PowerPoint slides, handouts) is recommended.
Disability policy: We encourage people with disabilities and from other diverse backgrounds to apply. If needed, we will provide reasonable accommodations adjusted to the needs of people with disabilities.
The conference will be held on the 9th and 10th of June 2022, at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland.
On the 8th of June 2022 the NAWA project participants will participate in a workshop on the multicultural past of Warsaw which will include a tour of the historical Jewish Warsaw.
The following shall be financed by the PROM Programme:
- travel costs of a conference participant
(from 1000 to 5000 PLN depending on straight-line distance between the participant’s place of residence and the place of stay (in km):
under 500 km – 1000 PLN
500-999 km – 2000 PLN
1000-2999 km – 3000 PLN
3000-6000 km – 4000 PLN
more than 6000 km – 5000 PLN
- costs of subsistence of a conference participant (5 days – 4000 PLN)
- costs of the conference fee (800 PLN)
Please, send your submissions for oral presentations to conference.revitalization@gmail.com by the 22nd of April 2022.
Submissions have to contain:
- the filled form including an abstract of the presentation (200 words plus 1-2 references);
- CV;
- confirmation of PhD student status (participation in PROM programme is limited to people under 40 years of age).
Number of NAWA programme scholarships: 11
Deadline for abstract submissions: 22nd of April 2022.
Notification of acceptance: 29th of April 2022.