Interdisciplinarity and the future of multilingualism research
28—29 August 2018, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Keynote speakers
Prof. David Block Allen
Institució Catalana de Recerca e d’Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Lleida, Catalonia
Prof. Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
University of the Highlands and Islands (UHI), Sabhal Mòr Ostaigh, Scotland
O
ne of the conclusions of the MIME project, with its eleven participating disciplines, is that research on multilingualism and how societies deal with it through public policy requires a deeply interdisciplinary perspective in order to do justice to the complexity of the issues at hand. This raises the question of how this interdisciplinarity can be encouraged, whether in institutions, in publication activities, in the operations of bodies that finance research and, not least, in the practices of researchers hailing from disciplines that span the full range of the social sciences and humanities (SSH).
You can download the presentations by the MIME young researchers, the keynote speakers and the word from the Advisory Board, by clicking on their title in the agenda below. The participants list is available here.
Tuesday 28 August
Time
Item
Speaker
9.30
Welcome address
Prof. François Grin
The Future of Multilingualism Research: Young Researchers' Perspectives: Language, Politics and Society
Chair: Žaneta Ozoliņa
9.45
Sergi Morales-Gálvez
11.00
Coffee break
Young Researchers' Perspectives (continued): Education and Mediation
Chair: Nike Pokorn
12.45
Lunch break
Young researchers' perspectives (continued): language policy analysis
Chair: Célio Conceicao
14.40
Torsten Templin
15.40
Coffee break
16.00
General discussion
Prof. François Grin, all
16.30
Brief organizational recap (periodic reporting, last deliverables, etc.)
Prof. François Grin,
Prof. László Marácz,
Dr. Kirsten Leufgen
17.00
Prof. em. Tom Moring
17.15
End of day 1
19.30
Conference dinner — Dinner address: Prof. Antonella Sorace
Wednesday 29 August
Time
Item
Speaker
9.15
Welcome and introduction
Prof. François Grin
10.30
Coffee break
10.45
Break-out session
11.15
Roundtable 1 & general discussion
12.30
Lunch break
15.00
Coffee break
15.15
Break-out session
15.45
Roundtable 2 & general discussion
17.00
Conclusion and wrap-up
17.30
End of the meeting
Poster Presentations
Lingua franca as a mediation strategy — Cyril Robert Brosch & Sabine Fiedler
Linguistic Justice in Europe — Helder De Schutter, Nenad Stojanović, Sergi Morales-Gálvez, François Boucher
A sociolinguistic perspective on mobility and inclusion — Federico Gobbo, Marta Lupica Spagnolo
Language needs of mobile retirees — Ann Elisabeth Laksfoss Cardozo, Per Gustafson

The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Community's Seventh Framework Programme under grant agreement No. 613344 (MIME Project).