GLOBALITY, LOCALITY AND CONTACT
         – LANGUAGE AND CULTURE

An interdisciplinary symposium to be held at the
HELSINKI COLLEGIUM FOR ADVANCED STUDIES
17-18 November 2008

The planned symposium will bring together linguists, anthropologists and scholars from other fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences looking at their subject matter from the global and/or the local perspective, and interested in how motivations stemming from the global and the local compete and converge in shaping human behaviour and culture in general and language in particular. A more detailed description of the symposium themes can be found in the call for papers (available here).

Keynote speakers

• Professor Tom Güldemann, University of Zurich / Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig
  http://email.eva.mpg.de/~gueldema/index.html
• Professor Deborah Kapchan, New York University
  http://www.nyu.edu/gsas/dept/music/Kapchan.html
• Professor Peter Mühlhäusler, University of Adelaide
  http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/people/linguistics/pmuhlhausler.html
  

Symposium programme

Abstracts

Registration

Practical information

Intensive course by Peter Mühlhäusler

Organizers

• Anneli Meurman-Solin (Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki)
• Matti Miestamo (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki)
• Tuulikki Pietilä (Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki)

Collaborating institutes and research units

• Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies
• Department of General Linguistics, University of Helsinki
• Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Helsinki
• Research Unit for Variation, Contacts and Change in English, University of Helsinki

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