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SUMMARY:The Italian minority in Crimea: linguistic identity and cultural b
 elonging - Dr Paola Bocale (Cambridge)
DTSTART:20121025T161500Z
DTEND:20121025T180000Z
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CONTACT:Katherine McDonald
DESCRIPTION:Abstract:\n\nIn circumstances of fundamental transformation\, 
 what can maintain the sense of collective identity in an ethnic minority g
 roup that has experienced geographical displacement and disruption through
  deportation? How does a speech community that has suffered language loss 
 choose between reviving its ancestral language or replacing it with the ac
 quisition of a sociolinguistically more prestigious cognate language? How 
 are linguistic identity and ethnocultural belonging negotiated and mediate
 d by a minority community in the midst of a larger majority community? \n\
 nThis talk will explore these issues by looking at the case of the Italian
  minority living in the town of Kerch\, situated at the eastern end of the
  Crimean peninsula in Ukraine. The community formed in the XIX and early X
 X centuries through a series of consecutive migrations mostly from the Pug
 lia (Apulia) region\, in Southern Italy. At the beginning of the XX centur
 y there were about 3\,000 Italians living in Kerč’\, and there were an 
 Italian primary school\, a mutual aid association and a catholic church\, 
 built with funds raised in the community. During WWII the entire Italian p
 opulation was deported from the Crimea to Kazakhstan. Following de-stalini
 zation\, deported Italians started returning to the town and the process i
 ntensified after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. The talk is based on
  interviews and ethnographic observation carried out among Italian deporte
 es and their descendants in September 2012. \n
LOCATION:Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies\, Room 8/9
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