FEATURED SPEAKER:
Dr. Barbara Johnstone
Professor of Rhetoric and Linguistics, Department of English
Carnegie Mellon University

Hosted by:
Interdisciplinary Program of Language, Literacy and Culture (LLC)
University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)
Baltimore, Maryland
April 11 & 12, 2008

The goal of this conference is to build bridges among educators, scholars, artists, activists, residents, city planners, and public officials whose respective work engages issues of “the city” or “city life.” The conference will have two main thrusts:
1) to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue about issues of language, community, and culture in the contemporary city and its surroundings; and
2) to promote dialogue about these issues as they relate specifically to Baltimore City. Interested participants are encouraged to submit proposals for panels, workshops, exhibits, discussion circles or breakout sessions.

Call for Papers and Presentations
Possible topics include:
Art
Borders
Cities/Counties
Citizenship
Communication
Communities
Cultures
Ethnography
Filmmaking
Genders
Gentrification
Geographies
Graffiti
Identities
Immigrants
Intercultural
Languages
Literacy
Mapping
Murals
Neighborhoods
Outsiders and Outlaws
Places
Planning
Policy
Political Economy
Pragmatics
Public Discourse
Storytelling
Spaces
Sexualities
Urban/Suburban
Verbal/Visual

Papers and presentations will be selected for inclusion on the basis of merit. All submissions must contain the following information for all proposed speakers.

• Name
• Affiliation
• E-mail address
• Mailing address, phone, and fax number
• Title of paper or presentation
• Brief description / summary of paper or presentation (250-300 words)

Organizers of panels, workshops, discussion circles or breakout sessions must provide the above information for each participant, together with their own contact information, and a brief description/summary (250-300 words) of the overall rationale for the proposed panel or session.

Deadline for submission: 1 October 2007

The preferred method of communication is e-mail. Be sure to include your e-mail address when contacting conference organizers. Please send inquiries and abstracts to: LLCBALTIMORE@gmail.com

Dr. Christine Mallinson
Language, Literacy and Culture
http://www.umbc.edu/llc
410-455-5669

Dr. Denis M. Provencher
Modern Languages and Linguistics
http://www.umbc.edu/mll
410-455-2636