Linguapax
Language under Controls
Date: 23-Sep-2011 - 24-Sep-2011
Location: New York, NY, USA
Contact Person: Wayne Finke
Linguistic Field(s): Sociolinguistics
Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2011
Meeting Description:
Language under Controls:
Policies and Practices Affecting Freedom of Speech
An international conference of the American Society of Geolinguistics will take place September 23-24, 2011. Many countries have in their constitutions statements regarding freedom of speech and have legislated on such topics as treasonous speech, incitement to riot, liable and slander, etc. Few legislate against blasphemy but some do regarding pornography.
This international conference to be held at Baruch College (CUNY) is still another in the successful series of annual conferences of the American Society of Geolinguistics (founded in 1965 by Mario Pei). They have drawn participants from the US, the UK, France, Germany, Russia, Spain, China, Japan, Australia, Cuba and more. A number of proceedings of those
conferences have been published. This conference's 15-minute papers, expanded to a maximum of 15 single-spaced pages, including works cited, is planned.
Keynote speaker will be Prof. Adrian Pablé, University of Hong Kong
Call for Papers:
If you are interested in submitting an abstract of 250 words, please do so by September 1, 2011.
Subjects may include: political correctness; national and international laws and language policies; censorship of any kind of printed, broadcast, or internet communications; self-censorship by governments, authors and journalists; activities of national and local regulators upholding political, religious or other standards, however determined; technology advancing or undermining national and international order, government and commercial secrets, etc.; monitoring and manipulating any communication; activists hacking and releasing sensitive documents or organizing uprisings; outspokenness and communication in general. Suggest any other topic you think relevant regarding any language. All papers to be in English.
Abstracts to:
Prof. Wayne Finke
Baruch College
New York, NY 10010-5585
wayne.finkebaruch.cuny.edu
http://linguistlist.org/issues/22/22-2453.html