Conference: Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe
6-8 July 2007
Provisional programme
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14.00 - 14.30 | Welcome Michael Kelly, Head, School of Humanities Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Director, Centre for Transnational Studies [Lecture Theatre C] |
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14.30 - 15.30 | Keynote I Border talk Thomas Diez, Birmingham [Lecture Theatre C] |
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15.30 - 16.00 | Coffee break | |
16.00 - 16.30 | Session 1.A [room 2109] |
Session 1.B [room 2097] |
Chair: Kris Horner Evolving identity – changing discourse: An examination of the representation of Slovene national identity in a leading daily newspaper during the transition from Yugoslav republic to an independent state Alastair Stone, University of Reading |
Chair: Wini Davies Youth talk and identity construction in German-speaking Switzerland Erika Werlen, Esther Galliker and Fabienne Tissot, Zürcher Hochschule Winterthur |
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16.30 - 16.35 | Short break | |
16.35 - 17.05 | Session 2.A [room 2109] |
Session 2.B [room 2097] |
Negotiating the linguistic divide in theatres on the German-Polish border Jane Wilkinson, University of Aberystwyth |
Diglossia and identity politics in German-speaking Switzerland Christina Spaeti and Damir Skenderovic, University of Fribourg/CH |
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17.05 - 17.10 | Short break | |
17.10 - 17.40 | Session 3.A [room 2109] |
Session 3.B [room 2097] |
The eternal foe and potato rows – the current position of German in Poland between resentments, nationalism and globalisation Sylvia Jaworska, Aston University |
Acquisition and use of German in a dialect-speaking environment – the situation of immigrant children in Switzerland Andrea Ender and Katharina Straßl, University of Bern |
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17.40 - 18.15 | Break: move luggage to Highfield Hall [map] | |
18.15 - 18.45 | Reception in Avenue Courtyard | |
18.45 - 20.00 | Conference dinner at Avenue Campus | |
20.00 - 21.30 | Film Stanislaw Mucha: Die Mitte [Lecture theatre C] |
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21.30 | Bar at Highfield Hall |
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09.30 - 10.30 | Keynote II Current trends in language teaching in central/eastern Europe with reference to the German language: changes, crises and perspectives of European multilingualism Matthias Makowski, Goethe-Institute Prague [Lecture theatre C] |
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10.30 - 10.45 | Short break | ||
10.45 - 11.15 | Session 4.A [room 2109] |
Session 4.B [room 2103] |
Session 4.C [room 2097] |
Chair: Máiréad Nic Craith Communication and identity values in EU discourse Giuditta Caliendo, University of Naples |
Chair: Péter Maitz The future of languages for special purposes in the era of progressing management Suzana Jurin / Aneta Stojic, University of Rijeka |
Chair: Jane Wilkinson Writing intercultural identities: narrative practices in European ‘itinerant’ texts Piera Carroli, Australian National University |
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11.15 - 11.45 | Coffee break | ||
11.45 - 12.15 | Session 5.A [room 2109] |
Session 5.B [room 2103] |
Session 5.C [room 2097] |
Debating diversity: competing discourses emerging from the German-only policy of a multilingual Berlin school Livia Schanze, University of Southampton |
The present position and future prospects of the German language in Croatian tourism Nevenka Blazevic / Maja Blazevic, University of Rijeka |
Luxemburgish and German in two novels by Roger Manderscheid Sarah Lippert, Eberhard-Karls University of Tübingen |
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12.15 - 12.20 | Short break | ||
12.20 - 12.50 | Session 6.A [room 2109] |
Session 6.B [room 2103] |
Session 6.C [room 2097] |
¿Salsa no tiene frontera? Ideologies of language and belonging in German salsa scenes Britta Schneider, University of Frankfurt |
The role of language for European work councils Helen Bicknell, University of Applied Sciences Mainz |
Vienna in cultural crossroads: Bai Ganju as counter-cultural protagonist throughout a century Valentin Petroussenko, Plovdiv University |
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13.00 - 14.30 | Lunch | ||
14.30 - 15.30 | Keynote III A European Public Sphere? Discursive Constructions of Europe in the National Media at times of Crisis Ruth Wodak, Lancaster University [Lecture theatre C] |
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15.30 - 15.40 | Short break | ||
15.40 - 16.10 | Session 8.A [room 2109] |
Session 8.B [room 2097] |
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Chair: Britta Schneider Dialect use and discursive identities of migrant western Germans in eastern Germany Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain / Grit Liebscher, University of Alberta / University of Waterloo |
Chair: Tamah Sherman Changes in the status of German in Hungary Péter Maitz / Klára Sándor, University of Debrecen / University of Szeged |
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16.10 - 16.15 | Short break | ||
16.15 - 16.45 | Session 9.A [room 2109] |
Session 9.B [room 2097] |
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Eastern German discourses of identity Stefan Mummert, Monash University |
Central European time: memories of language – lost and found – in the life stories of German-speakers Patrick Stevenson / Jenny Carl, University of Southampton |
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16.45 - 17.15 | Coffee break | ||
17.15 - 17.45 | Session 10.A [room 2109] |
Session 10.B [room 2097] |
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Chair: Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain |
Chair: Grit Liebscher |
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17.45 - 17.50 | Short break | ||
17.50 - 18.20 | Session 11.A [room 2109] |
Session 11.B [room 2097] |
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Kanak Sprak: a German sociolect? Martina Möllering, Macquarie University Sydney |
Czech, German and English: finding their place in multinational companies in the Czech Republic Jiri Nekvapil andTamah Sherman, Charles University Prague |
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19.30 | Dinner at Highfield Hall [map] | ||
20.30 | Bar at Highfield Hall |
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09.30 - 10.30 | Keynote IV From borders to neighbourhoods: reflections on cross-border paradigms in the new Europe Ulrike H. Meinhof, University of Southampton [Lecture theatre C] |
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10.30 - 10.40 | Short break | |
10.40 - 11.10 | Session 12.A [room 2109] |
Session 12.B [room 2097] |
Chair: Ullrich Kockel Linguistic minority as friend, foe, fetish: changing perceptions of German in the Romanian and Hungarian literatures of Transylvania Thomas Cooper, Collegium Budapest |
Chair: Patrick Stevenson The position of the Hungarian language in Central Europe László Marácz, University of Amsterdam |
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11.10 - 11.40 | Coffee break | |
11.40 - 12.10 | Session 13.A [room 2109] |
Session 13.B [room 2097] |
Revisiting history: representing the immigrant homeland of Romania's Transylvanian Saxons Kris Horner, University of Leeds |
The right of national minorities to be educated in minority language: the European Union’s contribution to the existing standards Gulara Guliyeva, University of Birmingham |
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12.10 - 12.40 | Session 14.A [room 2109] |
Session 14.B [room 2097] |
Language policy, planning and identity formation in Romania: the complex case of the Germans in Siebenbürgen Jeroen Darquennes / Marianne Broermann, Catholic University Brussels |
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13.00 | Lunch at Avenue Campus | |
End of conference |