Thursday 16 March 2023

Activity

08:30-09:00

Registration, coffee & tea

09:00

Opening words

09:15

Keynote 1: Ruth Kircher - Multilingual migrants in Montreal: A regional perspective on social identities and language attitudes

10:15-10:45

Coffee & tea

10:45

Douglas Chalmers - Breaking the invisible barriers - building on lessons of the rural Gàidhealtachd in urban Gaelic Scotland                                             

11:15

Emma Humphries - Home languages in Northern Ireland: the attitudes of young people

11:45

Stuart Dunmore - Acquisition motivations and identity orientation among Scottish Gaelic diasporas in Halifax, NS and Boston, MA

12:15

Farah Nazir - What’s in a name: language and identity among the British Mirpuri Community 

12:45 -14:00

Lunch

14:00

Edmond Cane - The difficult context for the survival of Arberesh – the challenge and the narrow opportunities

14:30

Yasemin Oral & Murat Topçu - Abkhaz-Abaza and Circassian as endangered languages in Turkey

15:00

Giulia Cabras - Tibetan in commercial signs in Xining (Northwest China): Economic opportunities and the visual emergence of a minority group

15:30-16:00

Coffee & tea and poster*

16:00

Sabina Zorčič - Minority schools in multilingual cities - state of play and implications

16:30

Niklas Wiskandt, Isabella Greisinger & Ana Krajinović -Teaching urban fieldwork at universities helps language documentation and preservation

17:00

End of session

19:00

Conference Dinner

*Poster

Thursday (16 March), 15:30-16:00

Anna Sofia Churchill & Caroline De Becker - An army or a navy? How the impact of being labelled a dialect can influence the national and international status of a minority language

Friday 17 March 2023 

Activity

08:30-09:00

Coffee & tea

09:00

Keynote 2: Agnieszka Legutko - Minority languages in the city and at university: The Mapping Yiddish New York project

10:00-10:30

Coffee & tea

10:30

Bruno Behling, Bastian Ilgner & Olga Olina - Assessing the vitality of minority languages in Berlin

11:00

Aurélie Joubert & Inès Hassen-Dakhli - Urban policy discourse and diversity management in the UK and France                                         

11:30

Maria Mazzoli & Vittorio dell'Aquila (FEF) - The School Census and thematic cartography: A tool for profiling the multilingual city and planning effective public policies and services. The case of Bremen

12:00 – 13:00

Lunch

13:00

Flavia Eva Floris, Gianfranco Fronteddu & Adrià Martín-Mor - Institutional translation and Sardinian language: Towards a multilingual model for the municipality of Bauladu

13:30

Julian Rott & Zacharias Saveh van Stek- Developing an alphabet for Dazaga in Berlin

14:00

Keynote 3: Robert Blackwood - Minority Languages in urban linguistic landscapes: Beyond documenting multilingualism in France 

15:00

Conference closure, coffee & tea

15:30

End of conference