Sepharad as Imagined Community

Language, Culture and Religion from the Early Modern Period to the 21st Century

September 2-3, 2014, Room 210 Illini Union

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Deadline for abstracts: March 30, 2014

We invite submissions with a focus on the Judeo-Spanish language, its evolution and its sociolinguistics, but from diverse academic perspectives including history, anthropology, sociology, literary and cultural studies, and religious studies, in addition to linguistics and philology.

Some suggested themes: Judeo-Spanish in communities of universal bilingualism, turn of the twentieth century language reform and purification among Judeo-Spanish intellectuals, nationalist language policies and Judeo-Spanish, spoken Judeo-Spanish in seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, linguistic and cultural connections between the Atlantic Sephardim, North Africa, and the Eastern Mediterranean, emigration and the survival of Judeo-Spanish in the 20th century Americas, Judeo-Spanish religious and secular literature, the Judeo-Spanish press, Judeo-Spanish folk literature and music.

Please send a 1 page abstract to
José Ignacio Hualde jihualde@illinois.edu
Mahir Şaul m-saul@illinois.edu

A full draft of the accepted papers will be required ahead of the Conference, in August 2014.

IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission: March 30, 2014
Authors of accepted/rejected abstracts notified: April 30, 2014
Full draft of accepted papers due: August 10, 2014