Conference: Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe

6-8 July 2007

Provisional programme

Day one: Friday 6 July 2007
Time
14.00 - 14.30	Welcome Michael Kelly, Head, School of Humanities Ulrike Hanna Meinhof, Director, Centre for Transnational Studies [Lecture Theatre C]
14.30 - 15.30	Keynote I Border talk Thomas Diez, Birmingham [Lecture Theatre C]
15.30 - 16.00	Coffee break
16.00 - 16.30	Session 1.A [room 2109]	Session 1.B [room 2097]
16.00 - 16.30	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
16.30 - 16.35	Short break
16.35 - 17.05	Session 2.A [room 2109]	Session 2.B [room 2097]
16.35 - 17.05	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
17.05 - 17.10	Short break
17.10 - 17.40	Session 3.A [room 2109]	Session 3.B [room 2097]
17.10 - 17.40	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
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]
21.30	Bar at Highfield Hall

Day two: Saturday 7 July 2007
Time
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]
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]
10.45 - 11.15	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
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]
11.45 - 12.15	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
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]
12.20 - 12.50	¿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
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]
15.30 - 15.40	Short break
15.40 - 16.10	Session 8.A [room 2109]	Session 8.B [room 2097]
15.40 - 16.10	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
16.10 - 16.15	Short break
16.15 - 16.45	Session 9.A [room 2109]	Session 9.B [room 2097]
16.15 - 16.45	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
16.45 - 17.15	Coffee break
17.15 - 17.45	Session 10.A [room 2109]	Session 10.B [room 2097]
17.15 - 17.45	Chair: Jennifer Dailey-O’Cain Language, linguistics and the matter of identity: the case of anglicisms in post-1990 Germany Jürgen Spitzmüller, University of Zürich	Chair: Grit Liebscher Czech-German relationship and identity in the cross-border region Kateřina Černa, Charles University Prague
17.45 - 17.50	Short break
17.50 - 18.20	Session 11.A [room 2109]	Session 11.B [room 2097]
17.50 - 18.20	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
19.30	Dinner at Highfield Hall [map]
20.30	Bar at Highfield Hall

Day three: Sunday 8 July 2007
Time
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]
10.30 - 10.40	Short break
10.40 - 11.10	Session 12.A [room 2109]	Session 12.B [room 2097]
10.40 - 11.10	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
11.10 - 11.40	Coffee break
11.40 - 12.10	Session 13.A [room 2109]	Session 13.B [room 2097]
11.40 - 12.10	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
12.10 - 12.40	Session 14.A [room 2109]	Session 14.B [room 2097]
12.10 - 12.40	Language policy, planning and identity formation in Romania: the complex case of the Germans in Siebenbürgen Jeroen Darquennes / Marianne Broermann, Catholic University Brussels
13.00	Lunch at Avenue Campus
	End of conference

Conference: Language, Discourse and Identity in Central Europe

6-8 July 2007

Provisional programme

Session 1.A [room 2109]

Session 1.B [room 2097]

Session 2.A [room 2109]

Session 2.B [room 2097]

Session 3.A [room 2109]

Session 3.B [room 2097]

Session 4.A [room 2109]

Session 4.B [room 2103]

Session 4.C [room 2097]

Session 5.A [room 2109]

Session 5.B [room 2103]

Session 5.C [room 2097]

Session 6.A [room 2109]

Session 6.B [room 2103]

Session 6.C [room 2097]

Session 8.A [room 2109]

Session 8.B [room 2097]

Session 9.A [room 2109]

Session 9.B [room 2097]

Session 10.A [room 2109]

Session 10.B [room 2097]

Session 11.A [room 2109]

Session 11.B [room 2097]

Session 12.A [room 2109]

Session 12.B [room 2097]

Session 13.A [room 2109]

Session 13.B [room 2097]

Session 14.A [room 2109]

Session 14.B [room 2097]