[ecrea] International Conference - Cultures of resistance, minorized peoples and languages

*COLLOQUE INTERNATIONAL*

*INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE*

*CONFERENCIA INTERNACIONAL*

1-2 Décembre 2016 - Paris

December 1^st -2^nd 2016

1-2 de Diciembre de 2016

Université Paris 8 Vincennes

CEMTI (Centre d'études sur les médias, les technologies et 
l'internationalisation)


CALL FOR PAPERS

The international conference "Cultures of resistance, minorized peoples 
and languages" aims at questioning the way States deal with minorized 
languages and cultures within their national territory, as well as the 
modes of resistance minorized people deploy to defend their rights.

The building of Nation-States around a territory, a political project 
and a language led to a formidable linguistic normalization process, 
resulting in the exclusion from the public sphere of other languages 
spoken within the countries' geographic limits, condemning them to 
disappear sooner or later.

Faced with these mechanisms of "minorization", where such cultures and 
languages still do exist, they mainly owe it to the unfailing 
mobilization of their members who struggle so that their idiosyncrasies 
may benefit from official recognition.

The claims from minorized groups affect all chapters of everyday life: 
education, media, justice, culture, ways of life, territorial rights… 
Although these claims are often presented from a cultural point of view, 
they do in actual fact raise real political issues as they question the 
place of languages in democracies and the vision of the world they carry 
in a plural society. Over the years, associations, communities and 
groups of activists dedicated to the linguistic cause have organized 
individual or collective actions, mobilizations and initiatives: 
demonstrations, development of alternative models in the fields of 
education or media, complaints to national, supra-national and 
international courts of law, promotion of cultural traditions (music, 
festivals, museum, literature, poetry, dance, ecotourism, pharmacopoeia, 
etc), struggles for specific rights (whether linguistic or territorial) 
or general rights (full access to citizenship, political representation).

Which strategies can account for those choices? How have the peoples 
prohibited from speaking their mother tongue managed to act, organize 
themselves and adjust to the historical, economic, social and political 
conditions imposed by the countries they were living in? How did they 
raise interest about their cause among international institutions or in 
their own country?

When analysing those claims, it makes sense to talk about a culture of 
resistance forged through the struggles led by minorized peoples who 
succeeded in surviving, despite all the obstacles, and were able to pass 
on their culture and languages when many others simply disappeared. 
Nevertheless, what relationships exist between these forms of resistance 
and the values they carry? How did the historical tensions resulting 
from the building of Nation-States or colonial empires interact with the 
quest for recognition, pushing minority-language speaking groups to use 
cunning in order to cope with the constraints imposed by the dominant 
culture? Which critical capacity do minority groups have for thinking 
citizenship and togetherness in the era of cultural and economic 
globalization? In other words, what characterizes the range of 
collective actions mobilized by the minorized groups that are resisting 
in different historical and socio-political contexts?

Those are the issues that will be debated during the conference around 
four main themes:

the political dimension related to the way claims from minorized peoples 
are dealt with within the public democratic sphere set up by Nation-States,

the legal framework of international conventions or national 
constitutions which try to organize the defence and protection of the 
languages and cultures of the world,

the economic dimension around the tensions or conflicts between 
territorial rights/regional sovereignty and economic development,

the different experiences and initiatives linked to social mobilizations.

*Editorial Advisory Board :*

Pr. Jacques Guyot (Université Paris 8), Danièle Téphany (Sociologist), 
Pr. Fabien Granjon (Université Paris 8), Pr. Miguel Escobar (Universidad 
Autónoma de México), Pr. Tristan Mattelart (Université Paris 8), Pr. 
Margarita Ledo Andión (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, España), 
Dr. Julie Peghini (Université Paris 8), Pr. Asbjørn Slot Jørgensen 
(Danish school of Media and Journalism, Aarhus, Denmark).

*Place and date :*

The conference will take place at the Auditorium of the Art Museum - 
Halle Saint Pierre, in the historical Montmartre quarter, on Thursday 
1^st and Friday 2^nd of December 2016.

*Registration fees :*

40 Euros that include full access to all conference activities.

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*Proposals :*

The deadline for submitting proposals is *August 15^th 2016*. Each 
proposal should integrate a title, a 500-word abstract and a short 
biography.

If accepted, the full text of the communication should be sent to the 
organizing committee before the 15^th of November 2016.

E-mail proposals to : (culturesresistance /at/ univ-paris8.fr) 
<mailto:(culturesresistance /at/ univ-paris8.fr)>

Contact : Pr. Jacques Guyot : (jacques.guyot /at/ univ-paris8.fr) 
<mailto:(jacques.guyot /at/ univ-paris8.fr)>

Calls for papers in French and Spanish : 
https://jacquesguyotetdanieletephany.net/actualite/


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