CREAL presents: Racing Language, Languaging Race Conference

Stanford University faculty and students are invited to:

“Racing Language, Languaging Race: New Approaches to the Study of
Race, Ethnicity and Language,” the inaugural symposium for Stanford
University’s Center for Race, Ethnicity, and Language (CREAL). “Racing
Language, Languaging Race” brings together cutting-edge, innovative
scholars interested in the complex relationships between race,
ethnicity, and language. As the title suggests, we are interested in
research that “races language” (views language through the lens of race
and ethnic studies) and “languages race” (views race through the lens of
language).

When: Thursday and Friday, May 3 & 4, 2012
Where: Levinthal Hall at Stanford Humanities Center

*See detailed schedule below

The three, broad focal areas of the symposium are:

1. Race and Ethnicity in Sociolinguistics
2. Race and Ethnicity in Linguistic Anthropology
3. Race and Ethnicity in Language Education

The goals of this symposium are to:

1. Bring together diverse scholars in an effort to deepen the
   conversation on language and race/ethnicity by providing an
   interdisciplinary space for interaction between sociolinguistics,
   linguistic anthropology, and language and literacy studies.
2. Highlight research that contributes to our understanding of how
   racial and ethnic identities are constructed through language use and
   interaction. Of particular interest are papers that examine the
   intersection of race and ethnicity with class, gender, sexuality,
   (trans)national and other social identities.
3. Emphasize the linguistic and discursive construction of
   race/ethnicity while noting its endurance as a social reality both for
   subjugated racial and ethnic minorities, immigrants, and other oppressed
   groups as well as dominant and privileged populations.

Thursday, May 3
Poster Session from 12-2 p.m.
Posters on Language, Race and Ethnicity

John Baugh, Washington University
A Legal Taxonomy of Linguistic Harassment: Workplace Discrimination Based on Race, Sex, Regional Dialects, & Sexual Orientation

Roey Gafter, Stanford University
Producing Pharyngeals & Performing Ethnicity on Israeli Reality TV

Christine Brigid Malsbary, UCLA
The Differential Racialization of Transnational Language Flows in a Local California High School

Carmel Oshannessy, University of Michigan
Light Warlpiri - Language Maintenance and Identity in Northern Australia

Lynette Parker, UC Berkeley
Mapping the Language of Oppression: Initial Examination of How Internalized Racial and Social Oppression are Implicated in School Failure   

Eva Ponte, University of Hawaii
Elementary Students as Language & Culture Teachers: Teacher and Student Voices about Efforts to Create Multilingual and Multicultural Spaces

Ferne Louanne Regis, University of the West Indies
Constructing Identity with Words: The Use of Indic Lexical Items among 6 Trinidadian Douglas

Sara Rutherford-Quach, Stanford University
That Which is Not Said: Silence and Speech in a “Linguistically Diverse” Classroom

Deborah Schiffrin , Marta Baffy, Gregory A. Bennett, Mackenzie Price, Georgetown University
The WWII Japanese-American Internment Narrative: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Passivization & Its Function in Three Corpora

Niral Shah, UC Berkeley
Exclusivity, Universality, and Innateness: Implicit Themes in Student Talk about Racial-Mathematical Narratives

Giuseppina Silvestri, University of Pisa & UCLA,
Calabria and Basiicata:  Romance and Balkan Race and Languages

Anastasiya Travina, Texas State University
 “Sí,¡Podemos!”: The Expression of Latino Identity Through The Lens of Soccer on Major Social Media Networks

Shontael Wanjema, Ohio State University

Language Choice of Vendor Customer Interactions: Ethnography of a Diverse Urban Flea Market

Marguerite Wilson, Daniela Torres-Torretti,Frances Kay Holmes, Luis Ramirez, UC Davis
Negotiating Representations of Racism, Agency, Hierarchy, & Positioning in a Graduate Education Program: A Critical Discourse Analysis

Paper Session 1 from 2-5:30 p.m.
Race and Ethnicity in Linguistic Anthropology

Elaine Chun, University of South Carolina
The Meaning of Ching Chong: Trajectories of Racist Words in New Media

Adrienne Lo, University of Illinois atUrbana-Champaign
Modern Multilinguals?: Race, Gender, and Linguistic Proficiency in Transnational South Korea

Jonathan Rosa, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Re-sounding Embodiments: Joint Processes of Ethnoracial and Linguistic Recognition

Jennifer Roth-Gordon, University of Arizona
Racial Malleability and the Sensory Regime: Introducing New Terms into the Study of Race, Ethnicity, and Language
Discussant: H. Samy Alim and Miyako Inoue

Friday, May 4

Paper Session 2 from 9 a.m.-12:45 p.m. 

Race and Ethnicity in Sociolinguistics

Carmen Fought, Pitzer College
Complexifying the Study of Ethnicity in Sociolinguistics

Sarah Bunin Benor, Hebrew Union College
Jews of Color: The Creative Use of Two Ethnolinguistic Repertoires

Renee Blake, New York University
A Sociolinguistic Perspective on the Classification of Blacks in the 21st Century

Rob Podesva, Stanford University
Southern or African American? On the Social Meaning of the PIN-PEN Merger in Washington, DC

Lauren Hall-Lew, University of Edinburgh
San Francisco is a New Hong Kong: California English and the Asian Panethnopolis

Devyani Sharma, Queen Mary, University of London
Change in Indexical Meaning: Asianness and Class in London
Discussants: John R. Rickford and Penny Eckert

Paper Session 3 from 2-5:30 p.m.
Race & Ethnicity in Language Education

Marjorie Orellana, University of California,Los Angeles
(E)racing and Embracing Language in Urban Contexts of Super-Diversity

Bryan Brown, Stanford University
The Language-identity Dilemma: An Examination of Language, Cognition, Identity and Their Associated Implications for Learning

Angela Reyes, Hunter College, City University of New York
Figuring Ethnic Personhood: Korean Linguistic Styles at an Asian American Cram School

Inmaculada García Sánchez, Temple University
Multiculturalism and its Discontents: Essentializing Ethnic Identities in Multilingual Spain

Django Paris, Michigan State University
Studying Language Across Difference in Changing Urban Schools-- and What it Means for Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy
Discussants: Arnetha F. Ball and Guadalupe Valdes