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  • j.kirk, 5th Language and Politics Symposium

    Message 1: 5th Language and Politics Symposium

     Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 06:28:39 -0400 (EDT)
    From: j.kirk <j.kirkqub.ac.uk>
    Subject: 5th Language and Politics Symposium


    5th Language and Politics Symposium

    Date: 15-Sep-2004 - 18-Sep-2004 Location: Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom Contact: John Kirk Contact Email: j.kirkqub.ac.uk

    Linguistic Sub-field: Historical Linguistics ,Language Description ,Sociolinguistics ,Text/Corpus Linguistics ,Translation ,Ling & Literature

    Meeting Description:

    Taking Stock in the Literature, Sociolinguistics and Legislation of Minority or Regional Languages in Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland, and Scotland

    Arts and Humanities Research Board Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies For the Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster With additional funding applied for from Foras na Gaeilge, Tha Boord o Ulst�r-Scotch, and Iomairt Cholm Cille

    DRAFT PROGRAMME

    Draft 4: 17 July 2004

    To participate, please contact to register by 6 September 2004: j.m.kirkqub.ac.uk or d.obaoillqub.ac.uk 028 9097 3815 or 028 9097 3390

    Wednesday 15 September 2004

    19.00-22.00 Old Staff Common Room Registration and Evening Buffet

    Thursday 16 September 2003: 08.30 Registration in Peter Froggatt Ce ntre 204 Arrival coffee and scones 09.15 Peter Froggatt Centre 212, Symposium Opening Morning Session: Current Legislation

    09.30 Languages Equality Bill Se�n � Cuire�n P�draig � Laighin

    10.30 Gaelic Language (Scotland) Bill Duncan Ferguson (invited; unconfirmed) Wilson Macleod

    11.30 Morning coffee and tea

    12.00 Ulster-Scots Academy (Invited but unconfirmed: Ian Adamson, Gavin Falconer, Nelson McCausland, Ian Parsley, Anne Smyth)

    OB12.45 Scots and the Scottish Executive Michael Hance

    13.30 Buffet Lunch

    Afternoon Session: Literature and Language Development

    14.30 Ivan Herbison (Queen's University Belfast) The Revival of Scots in Ulster: Why Literary History Matters

    15.30 Christopher Whyte (University of Glasgow) Sorley Maclean and Modernism

    16.30 Tea

    17.00 Alan Titley (St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra) Twentieth-century Literature in Irish and its Contribution to the Development of Irish

    18.00 Panel and Further Discussion

    18.30 Reception and Book Launch by Cl� Ollscoil na Banr�ona Patrick McKay Fermanagh 1: Lisnaskea and District: The Parish of Aghalurcher (Place-Names of Northern Ireland, vol. 8) Neal Alexander, Shane Murphy and Anne Oakman To the Other Shore: Cross-currents in Irish and Scottish Studies (Belfast Studies in Language, Culture and Politics 12)

    Friday 17 September 2004

    Morning Session: Sociolinguistics

    09.30 The Sociolinguistics of Contemporary Scots Caroline Macafee (invited, unconfirmed).

    10.30 Coffee

    11.0 The Sociolinguistics of Contemporary Scottish Gaelic Will Lamb (Lews Castle College, Benbecula Campus)

    12.0 The Sociolinguistics of Contemporary Irish Brian � Curn�in (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies) Conch�r � Giollag�in (St. Patrick's College, Drumcondra)

    13.0 Lunch

    Afternoon Session: International Comparisons

    14.00 Tomasz Wicherkiewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), author of The Making of a Language: The Case of the Idiom of Wilamowice, Southern Poland (Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter 2003) Kashubian and Scots

    14.45 Alexander Pavlenko, author of several articles in Scottish Language Ukraine and Scots 15.30 Tea

    16.00 Zammit Ciantar (University of Valetta), author of The Place-Names of the Coast of Gozo and translator of Hans Christian Andersen into Maltese Maltese and Irish

    16.45 Final Session: International Comparisons and Issues; 2005 Symposium: Minority Languages and the Economy; Closing Discussion

    18.00 (approx.) Close

    Evening Symposium Dinner, The Great Hall 19.30 Reception and Dinner (Invited Guest Speakers: President Mary McAleese, Frank McAveety, Eamon � Cuiv, Peter Peacock, Angela Smith)

    Saturday 18 September

    Excursion to Down Cathedral, Downpatrick for Celtic Worship: A Celebration of the New Irish Language Version of the Book of Common Prayer, an event organised for the Irish Guild of the Church of Ireland by Gordon McCoy

    9.30 Bus leaves Queen's University 10.30 Tour of Cathedral 11.00 Arrivals 11.15 Welcomes and Opening Prayers 11.30 Nicholas Williams 'The Irish Language and the Reformation' 12.00 Questions 12.15 Rev Terence McCaughey. 'The Gaelic Bible in Ireland and Scotland' 12.30 Questions

    12.45 Bus tour to surrounding places of historical and cultural interest (e.g. Saul church, St. Patrick�Euro(tm)s Centre, Strangford) with packed lunch

    2.30 Se�n � Duinn 'Celtic Christianity: The Irish Language Experience' 3.00 Questions 3.15 Gaelic-Speaking Minister from Scotland 4.00 Leaslaoi � Briain 'The Irish Language Guild of the Church of Ireland' 5.00 Service of Worship (including contributions from Scottish and Irish Gaelic choirs) Book Launch: New Irish Language Version of the Book of Common Prayer 7.00 Bus departs from Downpatrick 8.00 Return to Queen's University

    Sunday 19 September

    11.00 Bus Tour of Belfast

    3.00 Presbyterian Service in Irish with An Tor ar Lasadh ('The Burning Bush') in Fitzroy Presbyterian Church, Belfast