Conference: Sustainability and Minority Languages/An Inbhuanaitheacht agus na Mionteangacha
Programme
Venue: Dora Allman Room, The Hub, UCC
Information: c.dawson@ucc.ie
This conference is free of charge.
Thursday, 6 June 2024
| Time | Session Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9.40am | Official Opening: An tOllamh John O’Halloran, President, University College Cork | |
| 10am | One million Welsh speakers by 2050: the role of teaching Welsh to adults | Helen Prosser |
| 10.30am | A bottom-up revivalist Philosophy: Gaeltacht Bhóthar Seoighe and local language reconquest | Róisín Nic Liam |
| 11am | Coffee | |
| 11.30am | Linguistic sustainability and socio-economic transformation: a view from Gaelic Scotland | Wilson McLeod |
| 12pm | I would have Gaelainn, maybe not Gaelainn go flúirseach but Gaelainn: translanguaging in Gaeltacht na nDéise (the Co. Waterford Gaeltacht) | Caitríona Breathnach |
| 12.30pm | Lunch | |
| 2pm | Sami languages in Finland: the case of Inari Sámi revitalization | Peterri Laihonen |
| 2.30pm | Opportunities and challenges for the sustainability of Irish medium Post Primary Education in Ireland: Insights from Research | Aoife Ní Shéaghdha |
| 3pm | Galician language: an endangered species. Status and future. | Clara Guisán |
| 4pm | Coffee | |
| 4.30pm | An leor na polasaithe reatha le hinbhuanaitheacht teanga a bhaint amach don Ghaeilge? (with simultaneous translation) | Seán Ó Coinn |
Friday, 7 June 2024
| Time | Session Title | Speaker |
|---|---|---|
| 9.30am | Bringing the language to the people: The Irish language revival movement as decolonisation practice from the 1981 hunger strike to An Dream Dearg | Feargal Mac Ionrachtaig |
| 10am | Translating modern Ireland: the challenges and opportunities for Irish | Brian Ó Donnchadha |
| 10.30am | Coffee | |
| 11am | Security and linguistic status: the case of the Breton Language | Herve Le Bihan |
| 11.30am | Sustainability and the work of Ionad na Gaeilge Labhartha, UCC | Ciarán Dawson, Isobel Ní Riain, Pádraig Ó Macháin |
| 12pm | Geilleagar na Gaeilge, Taithí agus Tosaíochtaí (with simultaneous translation) | Tomás Ó Síocháin |
| 12.30pm | Lunch |
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| 2pm | Reshuffling power relations: Romani speakers' linguistic citizenship | Janos Heltai |
| 2.30pm | Tuismitheoirí na Gaeltachta, language sustainability and Gaeltacht families: A practical approach | Sorcha Ní Chéilleachair |
| 3pm | Basque: three situations and sustainability | Daniel Zubia |
| 3.30pm | Coffee | |
| 4pm | Panel | |
| 4.30pm | Closing Remarks |