Program

Sunday, September 10, 2006

Hillel at Steinhardt Hall
215 South 39th Street (between Walnut and Locust)
University of Pennsylvania
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Check-in (9:00-9:30 am)

Greetings

Stanton Wortham
Courtney Cazden
Dell Hymes
William Labov
Itzik Gottesman

Keynote Address: "Language Policy and Practice in Post-apartheid South Africa: Challenges and Opportunities"
Nkonko Kamwangamalu

Special Presentation to Joshua A. Fishman on Behalf of the Maori People

Penelope Poutu
Hinurewa Poutu
Toni Waho

Celebration Luncheon (12:00-1:30 pm)

Sociology of Language: A New Generation of Scholarship

Francis M. Hult "Managing Language Loyalty? Towards Prestige Planning in Sweden"
Naomi Prawer Kadar "Encountering America: Di yidishe kindervelt, 1917-1918"
Shuhan Wang "The Chinese Case in the US: Planning Language Education, Building Societal Capital"

Language Use, Language Planning, and Identity: Intergenerational Perspectives

Kendall King "Reversing Language Shift and Family Language Policy: Intergenerational Transmission Revisited"
John Baugh "Linguistic Foundations of Social Strife in the African Diaspora"
Shirley Brice Heath "All Scholarship is Personal: Reflections on Career Influences"

Language Loyalty: Fishman's Contributions to the Sociology of Language
A Panel Presentation of two volumes honoring Joshua A. Fishman

Volume 1: Language Loyalty, Language Planning, and Language Revitalization: Recent Writings and Reflections from Joshua A. Fishman (Multilingual Matters)

Nancy H. Hornberger
Martin Pütz

Volume 2: Language Loyalty, Continuity, and Change: Joshua A. Fishman's Contributions to International Sociolinguistics(Multilingual Matters)

Ofelia García
Rakhmiel Peltz
Harold Schiffman

Closing Remarks by Joshua A. Fishman