Cape Town WUN Workshop October 2015

Multilingualism and Mobility in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres

and Understanding Globalisation – Margins and Peripheries

15-16 October 2015
University of Cape Town

Thursday 15 October 2015
10.00-11.30	North-South Dialogue, Part I Chair: Kristine Horner Part 1: Papers and positions 1. Ana Deumert, Whose voice? Positionality in the development of southern theory 2. Stephen May, What does superdiversity add to multilingualism 3. Chris Stroud, Multilingualism as an utopian project
11.30-12.00	Tea
12.00-13.00	Part 2: Discussion Discussant: Mike Baynham
13.00-14.00	Lunch
14.00-15.30	New Chinese Migrations Chair: Alfonso del Percio 1. Katherine Chen: Language and identity in two mobile communities in Hong Kong2. Huamei Han: Understanding and problematizing the “Chinese as the new colonizer” discourse in northern Namibia: A modest proposal for an applied linguistics emancipating perspectives of and from the global South 3. Round table:Chinese migrations, emerging research agendas [Chen, Deumert, Han, Vigouroux, Gu & Guo, Stroud]	‘Marginal Languages’ from Past to Present Chair: Adriana Patiño- Santos 1. Nils Langer: Regional languages as cultural heritage: Efforts to promote and protect Low German and Frisian in the nineteenth century2. Antonia Rubino: Linguistic repertoires and multilingualism of the Italians in Australia 3. Kristine Horner & John Bellamy: Discourses on multilingualism, migration and endangerment: Luxembourgish in globalising context
15.30-16.00	Tea
16.00-17.30	North South Dialogue Continued Chair: Cecile Vigouroux 1. Anne Storch and Chris Bongartz: Making sense of the noisy2. Amiena Peck: Bleached skinscapes: skin lightening vs. Southern enlightenment 3. Quentin Williams:Mainstreaming a marginal accent and gender identity: the case of ‘Kimmie Kool’	Language, Identity and Belonging Chair: Audrey Small 1. Grace Guo: Migrant minorities’ identity construction through multilingual learning and use in China2. Michelle Gu:Negotiating identity and heritage: Ethnic minority youths in Hong Kong 3. Mi Yung Park: Globalization, locality, and language attitudes: The case of Southeast Asian migrant brides in Korea
18.00	Dinner at the Wild Fig

Friday 16 October 2015
9.30-10.30	Margins and Peripheries Chair: David Karlander1. Leonie Cornips: Constructing local identities in the periphery through language practices2. Jolien Clijsen: The experience of belonging through language practices 3. Yolandi Klein: Placed on the side-line: maintaining and contesting local ‘inkommers’ peripheries in an endocentric ‘boorling ‘place	Space, Place and Heritage Chair: Darren Paffey1. Louisa Buckingham: Lifestyle seekers or labourers: migrant positioning as reflected in the LL of Costa Rica’s Central Valley2. Mark Payne: Ethno- linguistic landscaping in Page Hall3. Mike Baynham: Heritage of no fixed abode: space, place and precarity in the early stages of migration
10.30-11.00	Tea
11.00-12.30	Language and the Political Economy Chair: Chris Bongartz1. Alfonso Del Percio: Training Entrepreneurs: Language, Migration and the Political Economy of Labor 2. Michelle October : Labour, language and economics in the South African farming industry 3. Roundtable: Quo vadis? Language and the political economy (Del Percio, Deumert, Cornips, Karlander, October, Storch, Stroud, Vigouroux)	Multilingualism and Urban Space/s Chair: Jennifer Dailey- O’Cain1. Patrick Stevenson: Berliner Mietshaus: A sociolinguistic novella in 5 storeys 2. Adriana Patiño- Santos: Narratives of Urban regeneration and Displacement: The Spanish-speaking Latin Americans of Elephant & Castle 3. Roundtable: methodological challenges (Baynham, Dailey-O’Cain, Horner, Patiño-Santos, Stevenson)
12.30-13.30	Lunch
13.30-14.30	‘Marginal languages’ and Globalization Chair: Anne Storch 1. David Karlander: Register and artefact: enregistering authenticity in an engagement with Övdalsk descriptivist texts 2. Justin Brown: Acting locally, thinking globally – international ‘First Nation’ discourses in ‘Khoisan’ language and cultural activism	Multilingualism and Mobility Meeting to draft proposal for volume and future planning: Kris Horner (Sheffield), Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain (Alberta) et al.
14.30-15.00	Tea
15.00-17.30	North-South Dialogue Continued (II) Chair: Ana Deumert Migration trajectories 0. Kristine Horner (introduction) 1. Kasper Juffermans & Beatriz Lorente: Language and the black box of migration 2. Cecile Vigouroux: Skilling the migrant 3. Clare Mar-Molinero: Returning from El Norte: US-Mexican returnees’ experience of reintegration Discussant: Leonie Cornips
18.00	Informal get-together/drinks at the Touch of Madness, Observatory

The workshop programme is also available as a PDF (135kB).