Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts
Program (draft)
8 June 2023
4:00 pm
Warm-up session
Guests of subproject B3: International project group from Germany, Georgia and Azerbaijan
Foundation of identity – Language islands
For the program of the warum-up session click here.
9 June 2023
Language, society & identity in diverse ethnolinguistic contexts
09:00 am
Opening
09:30 am
Heritage language education in Europe with a special focus on non-official migrant languages
Dr. Roberta Medda-Windischer (EURAC Bolzano/Bozen)
Language Rights and Duties for New Minorities: Integration through Diversity Governance
Mehmet Şerif Derince (Potsdam University)
Kurdish Heritage Language Teaching in Germany
Professor Dr. Katharina Brizić (University of Freiburg)
Non-official Migrant Languages in Europe: A Social Justice Perspective
12:15 pm
Lunch break
01:30 pm
Interculturality in language use
Prof. Dr. Armina Omerika (Goethe University Frankfurt)
Halalis, Haramis & Habubis: The New Language of Islam in Germany
Jun.-Prof. Dr. Nico Nassenstein (University of Mainz)
Performances of Fluidity among Migrating Kinyarwanda-Kirundi Speakers: Camouflage, Accommodation, Languaging
Dr. habil. Kyriaki Topidi (ECMI)
When Words Destroy Worlds: Online Hate Speech against Religious Minorities as Harm
04:00 pm
Identity and networks
Prof. Dr. Jannis Androutsopoulos (University of Hamburg/MultiLing, University of Oslo)
Digital connectivity, polycentric multilingualism, and heritage language engagement in transnational families
Dr. Thomas Eckart (University of Leipzig)
Between qualitative and quantitative methods: under-resourced languages at the Leipzig Corpora Collection
Prof. Dr. Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
Linguistic contact and complexity—a typological perspective
10 June 2023
09:30 am
Opening
09:35 am
Scripts as markers of identity
Dr. Daniel Birnstiel, Julia Furman
Script as Markers of Identity – An Introduction
Dr. Aurelija Tamošiūnaitė (University of Mainz)
Script and identity in ordinary writing: a case of Cyrillic Lithuanian at the end of the long nineteenth century
Professor Alessandro Mengozzi (Universita di Torino)
One script in three variants for quite a number of languages: Syriac, Garshuni Arabic and Modern Aramaic.
12:00 pm
Lunch
01:00 pm
Round table
Discussion of the joint publication/Anthology
Facilitation: Professor S. Gholami
03:30 pm
End of the Conference
*** You can find below the poster exhibition of the conference. If you click on the arrows on the right or left, you will find our sub-projects presented. ***
