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2nd EUNoM symposium: Higher Education and Research on Multilingualism: Challenge or Opportunity?

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM - Friday, November 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM (GMT+0100)

Leeuwarden, Netherlands

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Provisional programme of the second EUNoM symposium:

 

Higher Education and Research on Multilingualism: Challenge or Opportunity?

Venue:             WTC Leeuwarden

Address:          Heliconweg 52, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden (Fryslân), the Netherlands

 

Wednesday November 17th

19:00 - 22:00

early registration and buffet

Thursday November 18th

  9:00 - 18:00

symposium, including lunch

 

19:30

symposium dinner

Friday November 19th

  9:00 - 13:30

symposium

 

13:00 - 13:30

closing session

 

13:30

lunch

 

Speakers:

Robert Dunbar

Sabhal Mòr Ostaig (UK)


Subtheme 1: The multilingual university: language policy at the level of the institute

 

Jochen Rehbein

(keynote)

Research Centre on Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism, Ankara (Turkey)

“Multilingualism through community languages – challenge or opportunity of Higher Education?”

 

John Harris

Trinity College Dublin (Ireland)

Irina Chongarova & Nadia Cherneva

Centre for Languages and Intercultural Communication, Faculty of Philology, Plovdivski Universitet Paisii Hilendarski (Bulgaria)

“Multilingualism and Exclusion? A case study of international academic staff mobility”

Heidi Rontu

Aalto-yliopiston teknillinen korkeakoulu (Aalto University School of Science and Technology) (Finland)

“Putting policies into practice”

 

Subtheme 2: Possible contribution of universities in general and the EUNoM network in particular to the development of the Council of Europe’s and the EC’s language policies.

 

Rita Temmerman

Erasmus hogeschool Brussel (Belgium)

“Plurilinguistic terminological competences in specialized domains: a competitive advantage?”

Alex Riemersma

Mercator Research Centre / Fryske Akademy (Netherlands)

 

Subtheme 3: The relation between the regional and the global level. What impact do higher education establishments have in engaging in research in order to help to change the self-image, and the perspectives of ‘minority’ language communities?

 

Alastair Walker

Department of Frisian Studies/North Frisian Dictionary Centre (Germany)

“Multilingualism, the University Department and Minority Languages”

Jeroen Darquennes

Facultés Universitaires Notre-Dame de la Paix Namur (Belgium)

“From subject to object of transdisciplinary study: the role of languages in higher education in promoting Europe's linguistic diversity”

Mitja Žagar

Inštitut za narodnostna vprašanja (Institute for Ethnic Studies), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia)

Diversity Management: A Tool for Development of Inclusive Collective Identities and Adequeate Framework for Multilingual and Multicultural Societies (?)


Websites:

Abstracts of the presentations will be put on the EUNoM website. The website also provides a discussion forum where different questions will be addressed and discussed in advance of the symposium. After the symposium the forum provides room for follow-up. You are kindly invited to join the forum and participate in the discussions. You can also find more information about the project in general, symposia, and other events that will be organised on the EUNoM website.

 

Travel information:

Trains leave for Leeuwarden from Schiphol Airport every half hour (one or no change of trains). The journey takes about 2,5 hours.

When & Where



WTC Leeuwarden
Heliconweg 52
8914 AT Leeuwarden
Netherlands

Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 7:00 PM - Friday, November 19, 2010 at 3:00 PM (GMT+0100)


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Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning



The International Association of Language and Social Psychology (IALSP) aims to ensure the continuity and development of biennial international conferences (ICLASPs) that serve important functions of: exchange of ideas; establishing and extending contacts; facilitating collaborative research projects; and sharing experiences among colleagues from a variety of disciplines and professions from around the world. The diversity of perspectives focusing on the intersection of language and social behavior and experience has been one of the most exciting and rewarding features of the earlier conferences (in Australia, Canada, Germany, Hong Kong, USA, & UK).

The Mercator Research Centre gathers and mobilises expertise in the field of language learning at school, at home and through cultural participation in favour of linguistic diversity of Europe. The Mercator Research Centre brings Europe to Fryslân and Fryslân to Europe. The Mercator Research Centre is part of the Fryske Akademy.