Programme
Language and Identity Symposium
Thursday, October 20, at the White Hall of the UT History Museum
12:30 Opening of seminar
13:00-16:20 Session I. Language, Politics, Policy
13-13:45Neasa Hegarty (Dublin) "The European Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages: A pioneer in the cause of linguistic diversity in the EU" NB! view video recording
13:45-14:30 Tomasz Kamusella (St. Andrews) "Scripts and politics in modern Central Europe" NB! view video recording
14:30-14:50 coffee
14:50-15:35John Walsh (Galway) "Pushing an open door? Language policy at an Irish university" NB! view video recording
15:35-16:20Patrick Sériot (Lausanne) "Language and nation: The pseudo-opposition between the Jacobine and Romantic models" NB! view video recording
16:30-17:15 Cultural Performance
Friday, October 21, at the White Hall of the UT History Museum
9:30-15:00 Session II. Belonging and Self-Representation
9:30-10:15John E. Joseph (Edinburgh) "Signs of belonging: Indexing and interpreting identity in language" NB! view video recording
10:15-11:00Emili Boix-Fuster (Barcelona) "Language and identity in modern Catalonia: Integration, hybridization and segregation" NB! view video recording
11:00-11:15coffee
11:15-12:00Bettina Bock & Rosemarie Lühr (Jena) "Dynamics and interaction of the European component in the German vocabulary" NB! view video recording
12:00-13:20 Lunch break
13:20-14:05Konstanze McLeod (Edinburgh) "Gaelic and Sorbian as multiple boundary markers: Implications of minority language activism in Scotland and Lusatia" NB! view video recording
14:05-14:50 Anneli Sarhimaa (Mainz). "What is said is one thing, what it tells about identity is another: On interplay of identities and grammatical choices" NB! view video recording
15:15-18:00 PhD student session, at the White Hall of the UT History Museum NB! view video recording
Saturday, October 22, at the White Hall of the UT History Museum
9:00-12:00 Session III. Multilingualism
9:00-9:45 Johanna Laakso (Vienna) "Who needs Karelian, Kven or Austrian Hungarian - and why? On revising the study of European minority languages" NB! view video recording
9:45-10:30Alexandra Jaffe (Long Beach) "Plurilingualism as practice and ideology on Corsica: Tourist and school contexts" NB! view video recording
10:30-10:50 coffee
10:50-11:35Martin Ehala (Tartu) "Russian-speakers in the Baltic states: Language use and identity" NB! view video recording
11:35-12:20Anna Verschik (Tallinn) "Estonian impact in Russian-language blogs: Contact-induced language change at work" NB! view video recording
12:50-14:20 Session IV. Discussion: Language policy and use in European universities
Moderated by Jürgen Barkhoff (Dublin)
Panel: Jaak Aaviksoo (Tartu), Birute Klaas-Lang (Tartu), John Walsh (Galway), Emili-Boix Fuster (Barcelona) NB! view video recording