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The Role of Comparative Literature in Inter-Cultural Dialogue These days in Iran, where our minds are mostly focused on solving the economic and political problems, I am happy to see that the President elect, Mas’ud Pezeshkian, has prioritized cultural dialogue with the rest of the world. Literature and arts are inevitable parts of equal dialogue among nations. One of the literary disciplines that has always been neglected in Iran is comparative literature. Comparative literature is interlingual, intercultural and interdisciplinary. Comparative literature is based on the literary, cultural and artistic interactions between different nations beyond geographical boundaries, language, religion and race. Comparative literature means building bridges and finding cultural commonalities and as a result, understanding, friendship and sustainable peace with "the other". Now that the President elect wholeheartedly believes in mutual dialogue, tolerance, and interaction with "the other", I hope that this intercultural vision will be formed in our universities and instead of blowing the horn of xenophobia, "plant a tree of friendship that pleases the heart/ uproot the tree of enmity, which is the source of countless sufferings. Alireza Anushiravani Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature Shiraz, Iran

NU hosted an international research conference titled "Social Sciences and Humanities: Public Discourse." Around 60 speakers from universities in Kazakhstan and abroad, including from Kyrgyzstan, Azerbaijan, China, Budapest, and the United States participated in the conference organized by the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies at NU and the International Association of Teachers of Kazakh Language. Key topics of discussion included postcolonialism, national values, emerging trends in literature, language teaching, and more. The main speakers of the conference were Amina Tawasil, Lecturer at Columbia University; Alima Bissenova, Professor at NU; and Uli Schamiloglu, Head of the Department of Kazakh Language and Turkic Studies. Participants included representatives from prominent Kazakhstani universities such as Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, L.N.Gumilyov Eurasian National University, SDU University, Kazakhstan, Shokan Ualikhanov Kokshetau State University, Akhmet Yassawi University, and others. Gonzalo Hortelano

Typhoon no. 8 🌀 in Macau, but no great trouble. I was honoured to share my work on conference interpreting services of the European Commission 🏤 with a highly engaged Brazilian 👨🏫 audience! I got brilliant ideas for my on-going research on multisensorial politics. International Political Sociology is fun! Rede IPS Brasil deserves a big round of applause 👏 for promoting innovative methods in International Relations. To enter the magical world of conference interpreting and be introduced to notions of sonic politics as applied in international organizational studies, read: Lam, K. (2024). Interpreting Europe: Sonic politics and the affective foundation of multilingual negotiations. Mediterranean Politics, 1–25. https://lnkd.in/g2AdUvDY

📢 Exciting News! 📢 Our article Alex DeCoteau, @Dan Conn has been accepted for publication in the Genocide Studies International (GSI) journal! 📚 🌍 Our work is not only timely but critical. As highlighted by The Guardian, "Every 40 days a language dies. This 'catastrophic' loss is being amplified by the climate crisis, according to linguists. If nothing is done, conservative estimates suggest that half of all the 7,000 languages currently spoken will be extinct by the end of the century." Speakers of minority languages have endured persecution throughout history, leading to the extinction of half of all Indigenous languages in present-day Australia, the United States, South Africa, and Argentina by the 1920s. The climate crisis now poses as the "final nail in the coffin" for many Indigenous languages and the invaluable wisdom and worldviews embodied within. 📝 Titled "ANI-ANISHINAABEWAADIZING (Becoming Indigenous): Healing from Sustained Cultural Genocide and Linguicide Through Ojibwe Language World View," our manuscript, authored by myself, Alex Decouteau, and Dan Conn, will be showcased in the upcoming special issue on The Erasure and Revitalization of Indigenous Cultures and Languages. 🔍 GSI, aligned with the objectives of the International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies, serves as a vital platform for scholars, policymakers, and civil society actors to delve into critical analyses of genocide, human rights, crimes against humanity, and related mass atrocities. 🙏 A heartfelt thank you to the International Association of Genocide Scholars community for the invaluable journal publication workshop conducted at the Barcelona 2023 conference. And to @Lorena Fontaine and @Adam Muller, editors for your encouragement in embracing Indigenous Research Methods and the philosophy of Research as Ceremony for this project. Stay tuned for more updates! #IAGS #GenocideStudiesInternational #ResearchPublication #IndigenousCultures #LanguageRevitalization #Ojibwe 🌍✍️ https://lnkd.in/eGzaXf75

"Just as biodiversity matters for maintaining our planet’s ecological equilibrium, linguistic diversity is vital for preserving threatened cultures and communities in unequal societies." Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York by Ross Perlin (Endangered Language Alliance), published by Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Atlantic Books was the 2024 winner of the The British Academy Book Prize. It explores the global crisis of endangered languages by focusing on the extraordinary linguistic diversity of #NewYork City. Weaving history and linguistics with human stories, Perlin’s compelling, hopeful narrative documents grassroots efforts to preserve minority languages against extinction amid migration, gentrification and cultural change, writes Chris Featherman (MIT Comparative Media Studies/Writing) in his #review. Read more 👉 https://buff.ly/3ZOVJoj

📌You studied and want to go Abroad for MA and PhD. I frequently receive questions from linguists, particularly Igbo linguists, seeking advice on postgraduate program options. To help with this, I’ve carefully compiled a list of international courses you can pursue for your Master's and PhD studies. PART ONE If you studied Igbo or any other Social science program, this is for you. Yes you can leave Nigeria to study further. Do not limit yourself. 1. Applied Linguistics 2. African Studies 3. Translation and Interpreting Studies 4. Digital Humanities 5. Education (Language and Literacy Education) 6. Sociolinguistics 7. Cultural Heritage Studies 8. Media and Communication Studies 9. Anthropology (Linguistic Anthropology) 10. International Development Studies 11. Creative Writing (with a focus on Indigenous Literature) 12. International Relations (with a focus on Cultural Diplomacy) 13. Ethnomusicology 14. Human Rights Law (Focusing on Language Rights) 15. Public Policy (Language Policy and Planning) 16. Museum and Heritage Studies 17. Linguistic Engineering (Computational Linguistics) #igboglobalambasador #onyenkuziasusuigbo #EziadaIgbogburugburu

What an honour to participate in the 4th International Conference on the #HellenicDiaspora tomorrow. Looking forward to learn more about ongoing research on the Greek language around the world! P.S. You can read more about my presentation here: https://lnkd.in/gkJgbdVA

I am pleased to organise this conference featuring Historian Vicente Rafael from the University of Washington. The event will take place on Monday, 16 Sept. at 18:30, at the amphitheatre Bazin, Université catholique de l'Ouest. His abstract reads: "If social life consists of interminable acts of communication, then translation figures in all aspects of organizing and governing life itself. In this sense, translation is woven into the politics of life, or what some have called the biopolitical. Colonialism is one site for seeing the history of biopolitics where translation has played a crucial role. The institution of imperial rule as well as resistances to it across different linguistic and social groups would be inconceivable without the workings of translation. In this talk I’ll try to flesh out this history by looking at specific biopolitical formations in colonial translation found in the writings of Frantz Fanon especially with regard to language, race and decolonization". His publications include Of Peninsulas and Archipelagos: The Landscape of Translation in Southeast Asia, White Love and Other Events in Filipino History, The Sovereign Trickster, and Motherless Tongues. For more information, see https://lnkd.in/eK5FBsqD

The Reclaiming Our Languages research team presented their key findings and policy recommendations at the SSHRC Evolving Narratives of Cultures and Histories Knowledge Synthesis Forum today. We reviewed 4050 articles on Indigenous language reclamation and revitalization and found that less than 2.5% of the article address Indigenous people learning their own ancestral language in any way. The full report will be available this summer. This project was funded by the SSHRC Knowledge Synthesis Grant. The student researchers include (left-right) Bennett McLeod, Alicia Campbell, and Bella Hebert. We want to send out a very special thanks to Jennifer Soutter and Adam Mulcaster.

📚 Excited to share my latest publication titled "Exploring the Populist Rhetoric in the Tunisian President's Speech of July 25th: A Path to Save Tunisia," featured in the book World Languages and Cultures in the Public Sphere: Selected Proceedings of the 25th Southeast Conference on Languages, Literatures, and Film. https://lnkd.in/dkZUs_kn This study examines the linguistic and discursive specificities of Tunisian populism in President Kaïs Saïed’s pivotal speech on July 25th, 2021, amid widespread protests against Tunisia’s political and economic challenges. Combining insights from Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) and Cognitive Linguistics, specifically Image Schemata Theory, this article analyzes the populist rhetorical lexicon employed by the President. Through a detailed CDA of the various image schemata used, this article reveals that the President’s oratory embodies key features of populist discourse, including a stark dichotomy between the ‘virtuous ordinary’ people (us) and the ‘nefarious corrupt’ elite (them), a condemnation of these elites, and the portrayal of Kaïs Saïed as a populist leader poised to save Tunisia, its state, and its society. In doing so, this article contributes to a nuanced understanding of populist language in contemporary political contexts in Tunisia and the broader Middle East and North Africa region. #Tunisia #PoliticalDiscourse #Democracy #CognitiveLinguistics #CriticalDiscourseAnalysis #PopulistRhetoric #AcademicPublishing