Event of possible interest at OSU: The Mershon Research Network in Cultural Resilience, a collaboration of the Mershon Center for International Security Studies, the Center for Folklore Studies, and the Department of Linguistics, presents the colloquium Sustainable Pluralism: Linguistic and Cultural Resilience in Multiethnic Societies, from 4:30 Thursday, September 4th, through lunchtime on Saturday, September 6th. Turning away from policy discourses of preservation, protection, and heritage, we look at the grassroots strategies by which minority languages and cultural practices are sustained in plural societies. Weak actors defend themselves and pursue their goals through the arts of accommodation, avoidance, and nichemaking. But cultural flourishing is not identical with human flourishing. How do the two intersect and diverge over time? Our international case studies come from Tibet, New Orleans, Mongolia, the Philippines, Greenland, Jewish Krakow, Russian Alaska, indigenous Honduras, Kyrgyzstan, the Lake Michigan Potawatomi, the Senegambian borderland, western China, and beyond. Keynote speakers Lenore Grenoble (U of Chicago), Camiel Hamans (European Union), and Salikoko Mukfwene (U of Chicago) will offer us views on the question from the Arctic, Brussels, and subsaharan Africa. Your colleagues and students from the Departments of Comparative Studies, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Geography, Linguistics, and Near Eastern Languages and Cultures will also present their field studies. The full program will be posted next week. To register, please contact Ann Powers at [email protected] or (614) 292-8535. For further information contact co-organizers Dorothy Noyes [email protected] and Brian Joseph [email protected]. We hope to see many of you there!
Posted on: Sat, 09 Aug 2014 14:05:34 +0000
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