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CALL FOR PAPERS

Languages of Smaller Populations: Risks and Possibilities
The Small Conference Hall of the National Library of Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
16–17 March, 2012

The Hungarian Institute in Tallinn, the Estonian Ministry of Education and Research, and the NPO Fenno-Ugria, are organizing a conference which will focus on the different aspects of fear that coincide with losing one’s mother tongue. The dual purpose of this interdisciplinary conference will be to highlight key aspects of the history of the concept of language extinction as well as to look for possible links between the concerns about the loss of a language and the cultural phenomena (like survival strategies for endangered languages ) of society today.

The Program Committee invites proposals for papers, which should focus on the presenters’ individual research in the context of the aforementioned concepts. Proposals should consist of a 200–250 word abstract; a brief academic curriculum vitae, including degrees earned and academic concentration(s) (50–100 words); institutional affiliation; compete contact information and a description of any audio-visual requirements. Proposals must be received by the deadline date of 10 February 2012. Submissions must be sent as an email attachment (Word document only), to the Program Committee Secretary as listed below. Proposals must include the participant’s last name in the document’s title as in “Smith.doc”

Presentations will be limited to no more than twenty minutes with an additional ten minutes allocated for discussion following the presentation. The primary language of the conference is English. The lectures will be simultaneously translated to Estonian.

The conference will take place in the Small Conference Hall of the Estonian National Library, Tõnismägi 2 ,15189 Tallinn on March 16, 2012 13:30–17:30 and March 17, 2012 10:00–17:30.

Round-trip airfare to Tallinn and accomodations during the conference will be provided for invited lecturers by the organizers and/or sponsors of the conference. Participants will be personally contacted by the Program and Organizing Committee regarding specific transportation and accommodation needs.

Program and Organizing Committee

Urmas Bereczki, Hungarian Institute

Martin Ehala, University of Tartu

Kadi Raudalainen, NPO Fenno-Ugria

Tõnu Seilenthal, University of Tartu

Jüri Valge, Ministry of Education, Estonia

Anna Verschik, Tallinn University

Sponsors

British Council

The Danish Cultural Institute

Embassy of Hungary

Embassy of Latvia

Estonian Ministry of Culture

Estonian Ministry of Education and Research

Finnish Institute in Estonia

French Institute in Estonia

Hungarian Institute

NPO Fenno-Ugria

Representation of the European Comission in Estonia

Partners

Akadeemia

AS Veskaru, catering

Estonian National Library

Keel ja Kirjandus

Linguistica Uralica

Sirp

Secretary of the Program and Organizing Committee

Helina Pukk, Hungarian Institute

konverents@unginst.org.ee