MONDAY APRIL 19 - SATURDAY MAY 1 LANGUAGE & MIGRATION: EXPERIENCE & MEMORY 2021 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF PRINCETON’S CREATIVE Prof. Sarah WRITING FACULTY Dryden-Peterson Associate Professor of Education, 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm ET, Friday, April 30 Harvard Graduate School of Education Jhumpa Lahiri 10:15 am - 11:15 am ET, Director of Princeton University’s Monday, April 19 Program in Creative Writing, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Prof. Viet Thanh Nguyen Yiyun Li Aerol Arnold Chair of English, Professor of creative writing in the Lewis University of Southern California, Center for the Arts at Princeton University, Winner of the Pulitzer Prize award-winning writer and novelist 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm ET, Saturday, May 1 Aleksandar Hemon Professor of creative writing in the Lewis Center for the Arts at Princeton University, award-winning writer Free and open to the public with mandatory registration #LangMig2021 @PIIRSMigration More information: Please register migration.princeton.edu/symposium Registration link: https://princeton.zoom.us/ webinar/register/WN_GNf33xbFR1O9wdsn38Hk6Q Comparative Literature Monday, April 19 Wednesday, April 21 10:00 am - 10:15 am ET 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET Welcome Address Session 2: Linguistic Human Rights Humphrey Tonkin, Chair, NGO Committee on Chair, Lisa Atalianis, Language and Languages Birkbeck, University of London Esther Schor, Co-Director, The Migration Lab, Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies (PIIRS) Effrossyni Fragkou, Associate Lecturer, Faculty of English Language and Literature, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece Providing linguistic services to LGBTI refugees in 10:15 am - 11:15 am ET Greece: What are the challenges for interpreters? Eve Haque, Associate Professor, Language, Keynote Address Literatures, and Linguistics, York University Sarah Dryden-Peterson, Associate Professor Official and Non-Official Language Rights in Canada of Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education Yael Peled, Research Associate, Institute for Health Language, Migration, and Education: and Social Policy, McGill University Threading Past, Present, and Multilingual Selfhood and the Political Ethics Future-Building of a Linguistic In-Betweenness Timothy Reagan, Professor of Applied Linguistics, School of Learning and Teaching, University of Maine 11:30 am - 1:00 pm ET Identifying and Responding to Linguicism: Toward a Conceptual Model Session 1: Education Chair, Rosemary Salomone, St. John’s University School of Law 11:45 am - 1:15 pm ET Tony Capstick, Lecturer in Applied Linguistics, Session 3: Voices University of Reading, UK Chair, Sarah Chihaya, Princeton University Cross-disciplinary perspectives on the role of language in enhancing the resilience of Grace Tran, Ph.D. Candidate, Centre for Criminology refugees and host communities and Sociolegal Studies, University of Toronto Carol Benson, Associate Professor, Teachers “I Did Not Know What ‘Refugee’ Meant, But I Knew… College, Columbia University, Maria Serio, It Was a Bad Word”: Intersections of Refugee Subject M.A. Candidate, International and Comparative Formation with Language Loss and Acquisition Education, Columbia University; and Jon Kwok, Laila Omar, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of M.A. Candidate, International and Comparative Education, Columbia University Sociology, University of Toronto Between Memory and Anticipation: Exploring Applying principles of L1-based multilingual the Role of Language in Shaping Refugee Mothers’ education to refugee and immigrant Perceptions of Past, Present, and Future programs: An exploration Briana Nichols, Ph.D. Candidate, Departments of Celia Reddick, Ph.D. Candidate, Anthropology and Education, University of Harvard University Pennsylvania “The language is a part of them”: No Son Libres Allí / They Are Not Free There How teachers navigate the educational inclusion of refugee students Aleksandra Olszewska, Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for Multilingualism in Society across Mohammad Thalgi, Associate Professor, the Lifespan (MultiLing), University of Oslo, Norway Yarmouk University, Jordan; Özgür Aslankiliç, Multilingual Identities in Refugee-background Ph.D. Candidate, Osman Gazi University, Turkey; Students’ Voices: Counter-stories from Poland and Ayat Nashwan, Sociology and Social Work Department, Yarmouk University, Jordan Leonie Schulte, Ph.D. Candidate, Linguistic Anthropology, University of Oxford, UK Language education problems related to Syrian refugees’ education The German You Need to Know: Language Learning and in Turkey and Jordan Temporal Uncertainty Among Newcomers in Berlin Friday, April 23 Wednesday, April 28 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET 10:00 am - 11:30 am ET Session 4: Interpretation Session 6: Asylum Seekers/ Refugees and Translation Chair, Patricia Fernández-Kelly, Princeton University Chair, Joel Gomez, President, Tommaso Manfredini, Department of French and the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University Center for Applied Linguistics Ketli? Kori? or Keli? A Literary Archaeology of an Asylum Narrative, Italy, 2019 Morven Beaton-Thome, University of Applied Sciences, Cologne, Germany Forough Ramezankhah, School of Law, Keele University, UK Beyond language: the role of memory and experience Superdiversity in institutional contexts in the presentation of asylum claims Maria Bo, English, Comparative Literature, and Linguistics Shahzaman Haque, Institut National des Langues et Department, California State University Fullerton Civilisations Orientales, Paris, France Created Equal? Translating Linguistic Rights and Language practices and linguistic landscapes in the Asylum camps the False Equivalents of Language Justice of Paris and its suburbs: Focus on Urdu speakers Anisa Rahim, Civil Rights Lawyer, National Language Cosette Maiky, International Expert on Governance, Access Advocates Network (N-LAAN) United Nations Development Programme Language Justice: an evolving framework for The Intersection between Language and Global Health: fundamental language rights and equal access Conflict-Affected Arab Countries as a Case Study Dolores Inés Casillas, Department of Chicano and Tatyana Scheila Friedrich and Bruna Ruano, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Chicana Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara The Linguistic Approach of a Program that Welcomes Listening to Migration on U.S. Spanish-Language Radio Migrants and Refugees at a Brazilian University (UFPR) 11:45 am - 1:15 pm ET 11:45 am - 1:15 pm ET Session 5: Media and Session 7: Migrants and the State Representation Chair, Stephen Macedo, Princeton University Chair, Paul Nadal, Princeton University Jean-Pierre Gauci, Arthur Watts Senior Research Fellow in Argyro Nicolaou, Seeger Center for Hellenic Public Intl. Law, Director of Teaching and Training, British Institute Studies, Princeton University of Intl. and Comparative Law, London, UK Documenting Migration in Contemporary Video Art: From Law to Policy: Language, Categorisations, and Migrant Rights Bouchra Khalili's Mapping Journey Project Francisco Robles, Department of English, University of Notre Dame Max Cavitch, Department of English, Ofelia Zepeda’s Poetic Languages of Creation and Inhabitation University of Pennsylvania Zrinka Bralo, Chief Executive, Migrants Organise, London, UK Self Translations Xenophobic Language: the Media, the State, and Public Policy in the UK Somita Sabeti, Migration Research Center (MiReKoc), William Allen, St John’s College, University of Oxford, UK; Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey Researcher, Centre on Migration, Policy, and Society (COMPAS) Between Liminality, ‘Ghorbat-hood’ and Belonging Language about Migration and State Policymaking: Learning from the UK’s “Net Migration” Target Rahul Bjørn Parson, Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies, University Clara Beccaro, Department of Anthropology, of California, Berkeley The New School for Social Research Seizing the Telling: Deterritorialized Hindi The Discursive Production of Worthiness: and Urdu Literature in Kolkata Queer Refugees and the French Asylum Procedure SPECIAL EVENTS Friday, April 30 Saturday, May 1 7:30 pm – 8:45 pm ET 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm ET A reading by Princeton Keynote Address Creative Writing Faculty Viet Thanh Nguyen Jhumpa Lahiri, Yiyun Li, Aerol Arnold Professor of English, University of Southern California, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for The Sympathizer Aleksandar Hemon Professors of creative writing in the Lewis Center for Language and Migration: From the Arts at Princeton University, award-winning writers Representation to Decolonization Introduced by Prof. Sandra Bermann, Introduced by Prof. Anne Cheng, Princeton University Princeton University.