tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80164595036316591252024-03-19T10:47:24.723+01:00STAR Project ★ LuxembourgSociolinguistic Trajectories and Repertoires: Luso-Luxo-African Identifications, Interactions and ImaginationsJurdanahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09236384895253659161noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-15415480767294184252015-11-25T11:05:00.003+01:002015-11-25T11:06:53.601+01:00Workshop in Belval: Mobility as a Struggle<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
<a href="http://wwwen.uni.lu/recherche/flshase/education_culture_cognition_and_society_eccs/news_events/workshop_mobility_as_a_struggle_luso_african_perspectives">Mobility as a struggle: Luso-African perspectives</a><br />
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A workshop we're hosting in our new campus in Beval. With a keynote talk by Clementina Furtado of the University of Cape Verde, who's visiting the University of Luxembourg this week with a grant from the UL's Office of International Affairs, and contributions by Noémie Marcus (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Samuel Weeks (University of California at Los Angeles), Roberto Gómez (University of Luxembourg) and ourselves. <br />
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Thanks to journalist Aleida Vieira, we made it to the newspapers (<a href="http://www.wort.lu/pt/luxemburgo/universidade-do-luxemburgo-mobilidade-de-cabo-verdianos-e-guineenses-em-debate-em-esch-belval-5653330e0da165c55dc4df86?utm_source=pt_daily&utm_medium=email-1600&utm_content=newsLink&utm_campaign=dailyNewsletter">Contacto</a>, in Luxembourg, and <a href="http://asemana.publ.cv/spip.php?article114729&ak=1">A Semana</a>, in Cape Verde). And we were invited for a private encounter on Tuesday evening with the Ambassador of the Republic of Cape Verde to Luxembourg, Mr. Carlos Semeda. We seem to be doing something good...<br />
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Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-79824288415721124122014-12-10T22:38:00.001+01:002015-11-25T11:07:14.475+01:00Fieldwork and conference planning first half 2015<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've planned our second and extensive fieldwork trips as follows: </span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kasper to Guinea Bissau (via Senegal), 10 January - early April 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">Bernardino to Cape Verde, mid-January - mid-April 2015</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">We've also started submitting abstracts to conferences, and hope to be able to present our work in progress at:</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The Sociolinguistics of Globalization Conference in Hong Kong, 3-6 June 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The First Annual Conference on Cape Verdean Studies, Bridgewater, USA, 12-14 June 2015</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: inherit;">The 14th International Pragmatics Conference in Antwerp, Belgium, 26-31 July 2015</span></li>
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Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-74639154341133454552014-12-10T22:12:00.001+01:002014-12-10T22:13:54.787+01:00Meeting with American-Cape Verdean delegation at UL's International Relations Office<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On the 27th of November, Kasper and Bernardino participated in a meeting hosted by our International Relationss Office at Limpertsberg Campus with a delegation of the newly established Pedro Pires Center for Cape Verdean Studies of Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts, USA. The delegation, consisting of its Director, Dr. Joao J. Rosa, and Luxembourg-born consultant Val Lopes, targeted the University of Luxembourg as a potential partner in the collaboration they are setting up with the University of Cape Verde and other institutions in Cape Verde. The University of Luxembourg and the University of Cape Verde have established a bilateral agreement for student and staff exchange several years ago, but not much students and staff have benefited from this partnership so far. The initiative of our American colleagues will hopefully lead to revitalise this existing agreement. We hope that the STAR project can contribute to this in whatever capacity, e.g. through our advisor Clementina Furtado.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-44678431137399689752014-11-10T22:43:00.000+01:002014-12-10T22:44:07.342+01:00Fieldwork in Cape Verde<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">For a report of Bernardino's exploratory fieldwork trip to Santiago (Praia), <span style="text-align: justify;">S</span><span style="text-align: justify;">ão Vicente (Mindelo) & Santo Antão</span>, see research brief #5 here.</span></div>
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Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-36741574228876532502014-09-21T18:51:00.005+02:002014-09-21T19:27:16.468+02:00Fieldwork in Guinea Bissau, September 2014<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From the end of August to beginning of October, Kasper conducts a second fieldwork trip in Guinea Bissau, the first funded by the project. This fieldwork trip continues earlier efforts in the beginning of the year to establish contacts and identify sites for field research in the capital of Bissau as well as in the town of Bissorã in the north of the country.<br />
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In semirural Bissorã the fieldwork is rather informal and casual, comprising mainly of conversations and contacts with business people in the central Praça. In Bissau, I'm accepted as a researcher/voluntary teacher in a centrally located popular language school, and I've strengthened contacts with the American Corner in Bissau at the university campus. I have also visited the French cultural centre again and Tchico-Té college for teacher training, although so far without establishing formal arrangements with them.<br />
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During this fieldwork trip, a contract has also been signed with Reinaldo Natcha, adding him as a fourth member of the team as a field research assistant based in Guinea Bissau until the beginning of 2016. Natcha is an eloquent multilingual with prior experience as research assistant and a well-known member of his community as well as of Bissau's English language teaching community.<br />
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I'm regularly posting about this fieldwork trip on my personal Facebook page, reaching out to a body of 100-200 people of friends, family, around the world. A summary of these posts which will be published as a research brief on this blog after my return.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-8793001397254028102014-07-09T00:13:00.003+02:002014-09-21T18:53:20.609+02:00Presentation at MLing research institute<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On Wednesday 9 July, 2014, Kasper and Bernardino present an outline and beginning of the STAR project for colleagues of the MLing research institute in Walferdange. At this event the research blog is also officially launched.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-90935792857114854602014-06-25T13:41:00.000+02:002014-07-01T16:06:46.251+02:00Superdiversity conference in Birmingham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On 23 and 24 June, 2014, Kasper attends the <a href="http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/research/activity/superdiversity-institute/events/superdiversity-international-conference/index.aspx">international conference on superdiversity</a> at the University of Birmingham.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-85890679667154044072014-06-20T16:22:00.000+02:002014-07-01T16:06:22.140+02:00MODE summer school on multimodal methods, London<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
Bernardino participates in the <a href="http://mode.ioe.ac.uk/2014/03/18/mode-summer-school-16-20th-june-2014/">MODE Summer School</a> organised at London Knowledge Lab with the theme of "<strong>Multimodal Methods for Analysing Communication and Learning with Digital Technologies</strong>", Institute of Education, University of London, UK, June 16-20, 2014.</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554134261245279818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-1831493944820283862014-06-13T19:14:00.000+02:002014-09-21T18:54:52.575+02:00Masterclass symposium in Luxembourg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
On 12 and 13 June, 2014, Kasper and Bernardino participated in the masterclass symposium organised for and by the master students of the learning and communication in multilingual and multicultural contexts master programme. 2nd-year students presented their completed (or ongoing) research projects in parallel presentations and 1st-year students presented their research plans in a poster session. Invited plenary speakers were Beatriz Lorente of the University of Basel, Switzerland, and Tommaso Milani of the University of Witwatersrand, South Africa. Both talks related to themes of the STAR project. Beatriz' talk, "Scripts of servitude: language and the transnational domestic worker" thematised social, racial and linguistic inequalities in labour market relations and described the situation of Filipina domestic workers in Singapore which many students found described as shocking and as the modern-day equivalent of slavery. On the second day, Tommaso's talk, "Sexed signs: queering the scenery" presented an argument for considering the body, and gender and sexuality more specifically, in studies of linguistic landscape.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-85899410779753463962014-05-28T18:34:00.000+02:002014-09-21T18:54:26.535+02:00Beyond the tyranny of writing workshop in Luxembourg<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From Monday 26 to Wednesday 28 May, Kasper co-hosted with Constanze Weth an international workshop on the theme of "<strong>Beyond the tyranny of writing</strong>". The workshop opened with a keynote speech by Florian Coulmas of the German Institute of Japanese Studies in Tokyo, Japan, and further included presentations by Manuela Böhm (Kassel), Ulrich Mehlem (Frankfurt), Mikko Laitinen (Växjö), Jos Swanenberg (Tilburg), David C.S. Li (Hong Kong), Collette Noyau (Paris), Friederike Lüpke (London), Daniel Buncic (Cologne), Gabriele Budach (Saarbrücken), Joop Van der Horst (Leuven) and Luxembourg colleagues Jean-Jacques Weber, Melanie Wagner, Luc Belling and Lucas Duane Bernedo. Bernardino and Jurdana also attended parts of the workshop. The workshop was an opportunity to discuss planning and progress of the STAR project with Friederike Lüpke, a scholar of language contact and multilingualism in West Africa, and one of the STAR project's advisers.</div>
Kasperhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01698223414635542526noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-41655792249185390532014-05-13T15:51:00.003+02:002014-07-01T13:37:21.052+02:00LEF training workshop in Birmingham<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; font-family: inherit;">Bernardino participates in Linguistic Ethnography Forum training workshop "<b>Researching language as social practice:
enhancing skills in working with language data</b>" organised at the University of Birmingham, UK, May 15-16, 2014. </span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07554134261245279818noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8016459503631659125.post-23220468484304194892014-04-12T16:48:00.000+02:002014-07-01T16:07:19.047+02:00Presentation at LL6 in Cape Town<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
From 9-11 April 2014, Kasper attended the <a href="http://linguisticlandscapes6.co.za/">6th Linguistic Landscapes workshop in Cape Town</a>, South Africa, organised by colleagues at the <a href="http://www.uwc.ac.za/Faculties/ART/LIS/Pages/default.aspx">University of the Western Cape</a> with the theme of "Hope and Precarity". He presented a paper, including an outline of the STAR project, entitled "<strong>Landscapes of mobility: Tourists, vagabonds and the involuntary immobile</strong>."</div>
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