Program

Last update: June 1, 2018.

Abstracts available! Please download the Book of Abstracts for more details about the oral presentations and the posters as well.

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Day 0 – May 2, 2018

Place: University of Amsterdam, P C Hoofthuis, Spuistraat 134, Amsterdam (map), main entrance.

  • 14:00 – 18:00: Registration

Day 1 – May 3, 2018

Place (morning): University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort (OMHP), room D0.09.

  • 08:30 – 09:00: Registration
  • 09:00 – 09:30: Opening (Federico Gobbo, University of Amsterdam / University of Turin) – watch video

Main session: Contested Languages and Language Contestedness

Chair: F Gobbo
  • 09:30 – 10:00: “What are contested languages?” (Marco Tamburelli, Bangor University & Mauro Tosco, University of Turin) – watch video
  • 10:00 – 10:30: “Is Catalan a contested language? Legal status and planning of a minoritized language in three different States” (Juan Jiménez-Salcedo, University Pablo de Olavide) – watch video
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break
  • 11:00 – 11:30: “The Survival of Picard and Provençal in France Despite ‘Their Programmed Demise’: The Language and Identity Connection” (Patrick Seán McCrea, Tulane University) – watch video
  • 11:30 – 12:00: “Language planning in a planned language community” (Sabine Fiedler, University of Leipzig) – watch video
  • 12:00 – 13:30: Lunch break (and poster preparation)

Place (afternoon): University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort (OMHP), room D1.09

Invited talk by Ulrich Ammon, (Duisburg-Essen)

Chair: F Gobbo

Main session: Contested languages in the Digital World

Chair: M Tamburelli
  • 14:00 – 14:30: “Digital presence and language contestedness” (Claudia Soria, ILC-CNR Institute for Computational Linguistics «A. Zampolli», Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche)
  • 14:30 – 15:00: “Coolification vs contestedness and the digital world: lessons learnt from Hollywood languages and Esperanto” (Federico Gobbo, University of Amsterdam / University of Turin) – watch video
  • 15:00 – 15:30: Coffee break

MIME session: Mobility, Revitalization, Standardization

Chair: F Gobbo
  • 15:30 – 16:00: “Mobility and Multilingualism: the Choices of Latgale” (Gabriele Iannaccaro, University of Milano-Bicocca & Vittorio Dell’Aquila, CELE) – watch video
  • 16:00 – 16:30: “Elfdalian revitalization and corpus planning” (Yair Sapir, Kristianstad University Sweden) – watch video
  • 16:30 – 17:00: “The ‘small Renaissance’ of Ligurian and the obstacles it faces” (Andrea Acquarone, Che l’inse! (CLI) & Vittorio Dell’Aquila, CELE) – watch video
  • 17:00 – 18:30: Wine reception (and official poster session)
    • Grammatical gender in Ninilchik Russian and a comparison with Standard Russian (Olga Steriopolo (Leibniz-ZAS, Berlin) and Olivia Maky (Leibniz-ZAS and Humboldt Universitaet, Berlin)
    • Two-way Integration of Heritage and Minoritized Speakers: Voices from Catalonia (Eva J. Daussa, Tilman Lanz and Renée Pera I Ros, University of Groningen / University of Marburg)
    • Estremeñu – The Extremaduran language (Daniel Gordo, OSCEC Estremaúra)
    • Mobility by means of a contested language: Esperanto as the working language in an educational NGO (Sabine Fiedler & Cyril Brosch, University of Leipzig)
    • Different kinds of contested languages and their position in inclusion processes: Finland Swedish, regional languages in Spain and Italy (Vittorio Dell’Aquila, CELE & Ida Stria, University of Warsaw & Marina Pietrocola, University of Teramo)

Social dinner

  • From 20:00: Restaurant EYE, EYE Film Instituut Nederland, IJpromenade 1, 1031 KT Amsterdam (map). Important! Please have a look at the social dinner page for details.

Day 2 – May 4, 2018

Place (all day): University of Amsterdam, Oudemanhuispoort (OMHP), room D0.09

Main session: Contested languages in the Netherlands

Chair: F Gobbo
  • 09:00 – 09:30: “A Citizen Science Approach to Contested Languages: Stimmen fan Fryslân” (Nanna Haug Hilton, University of Groningen) – watch video
  • 09:30 – 10:00: “Worlds Apart: A Socialhistorical Comparison of Low Saxon and Frisian in the Netherlands” (G.T. (Goffe) Jensma, University of Groningen)

Main session: New Speakers of Contested Languages

Chair: M Tamburelli
  • 10:00 – 10:30: “The paradoxes of being a new speaker of Frisian: understanding motivation, authority and legitimacy in Frisia” (Guillem Belmar Viernes & Nienke Eikens & Daniël de Jong & Willemijn Miedma and Sara Pinho, University of Groningen) – watch video
  • 10:30 – 11:00: Coffee break (and informal poster session)
  • 11:00 – 11:30: “New speakers’ attitudes and the contested Occitan standard” (Aurelie Joubert, Queen’s University Belfast) – watch video
  • 11:30 – 12:00: “Identity of speakers of Esperanto as a contested language” (Ida Stria, University of Warsaw) – watch video
  • 12:00 – 13:00: Lunch break (and informal poster session)

Main session: Territorial and Non-territorial Contested Languages

Chair: F Gobbo
  • 13:00 – 13:30: “The presence and role of the Romani language in the identity formation of young Roma” (Márton András Baló, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences) – watch video
  • 13:30 – 14:00: “From above and from below, to the right and to the left: Exploring contested perspectives on language transmission within the Esperanto movement” (Guilherme Fians, University of Manchester) – watch video
  • 14:00 – 14:30: “The impact of loan words on the divergence between the Kven language and standard Finnish” (Leena Niiranen, UiT The Artic University of Norway) – watch video
  • 14:30 – 15:00: Coffee break (and informal poster session)

Main session: Contested Languages in Education

Chair: M Tosco
  • 15:00 – 15:30: “Language Ideologies and the Csángó Educational Program: A Case of Inventing or Erasing Language?” (Petteri Laihonen, University of Jyväskylä)
  • 15:30 – 16:00: “The current status of Low German and its use in kindergartens” (Astrid Adler & Andrea Kleene & Albrecht Plewnia, IDS Leibniz Gemeinschaft) – watch video
  • 16:00 – 16:30: “Languages and cultures in contact: What place for Upper Sorbian new speakers and learners in Lusatia (Germany)?” (Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska, ISS PAS The Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences & Cordula Ratajczak, Serbski institut / Sorbian institute) – watch video

Closing

  • 16:30 – 17:00: CLOW4, proceedings et al. (F Gobbo & M Tamburelli & M Tosco) – watch video