Location:
Memorial Union, UW-Madison
Description:
On Thursday, September 28 and Friday, September 29, 2006, the Max Kade Institute, in conjunction with the Center for German and European Studies, will sponsor a conference on the topic “The German Language and Immigration in International Perspective.” This will take place in the Memorial Union on the UW–Madison campus. All presentations are free and open to the entire campus community and the general public.
This conference will explore the German language within the context of global migration, past and present. The empirical focus will be two-pronged. On the one hand, we will consider the social and linguistic consequences of the migration of German-speakers beyond Central Europe, especially to North America, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. On the other hand, we also examine the situation of migrants to Germany after the Second World War and also German unification, especially Turks and ethnic Germans from the East and former Soviet Union. The goal of the conference is to examine the parallels between history and the present to understand better the diverse sociolinguistic situation of German around the globe.
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