Language, Identity and Power
Language, Identity and Power
What Future for Minority Languages in Europe?
24 February 2015, 9:00 - 11:00
Room A5E-3, European Parliament, Brussels
Opening Remarks
Csaba Sógor, MEP (EPP)
Herbert Dorfmann, MEP (EPP)
Jill Evans, MEP (EFA/Greens)
Introductory speech: The legal landscape for minority language
protection in Europe
Vicent Climent-Ferrando (NPLD)
Panel 1: Language, Identity and Power
- Language policy in constructing national
narratives
Zoltán Kántor, Research Institute for Hungarian Communities Abroad
- The
preservation of minority language and identity: the Turkish community in
Greece
Sebahattin Abdurrahman, Federation of Western Thrace Turks in Europe (ABTTF)
- Language and politics in Belgium: lessons to
be learnt?
Rudi Janssens,
Free University of Brussels - BRIO
Panel 2: Cherishing Diversity: ways forward
- The Ladin Community in South Tyrol: language
learning and social dialogue
Paul Videsott, Free University of Bolzano
- Revitalizing the
lower Sorbian language-the Witaj project: experiences and advantages of
the immersion method
Hannes Wilhelm-Kell, Lausatian Alliance
- What the EU can and should do for minority languages
Johan Häggman, multilingualism expert,
formerly at DG Translation at European Commission
Questions and Answers
Closing
remarks
