Dates:

5-6 July, 2007

Organiser:

The Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (HAS)
Benczúr u. 33.
H-1068 Budapest
Hungary

Phone: (36-1) 321-4830
Fax: (36-1) 322-9297
E-mail: linginst@nytud.hu
Web: www.nytud.hu

Venue and further information:

Faculty of Law
University of Pécs
48-as tér 1.
Pécs
7622 Hungary

Foreign Affairs Coordinator: Ms. Brigitta Szabó

Phone: + 36 72 501 599/3241
Fax: + 36 72 215 148
E-mail: icml11reg@ajk.pte.hu 
Website: http://icml11.law.pte.hu/contact.html

Themes:

The special focus of the conference is Multilingualism, Citizenship and the Future of Minority Languages: Ideologies and Practices of Linguistic Difference in Europe.

Main themes:

• Bilingualism and education 
• Models of language learning in education 
• Minority languages and the "new economy" (country studies, analyses of the administration of the European Union) 
• Negotiation of identities in a new European context: national, regional and transnational perspectives 
• Language policies, language planning and linguistic human rights within national and international legal frameworks 
• The challenges of comparative analysis of minority languages 
• Patterns of language shift and maintenance 
• Minority languages, the media and the Internet 
• Minority languages and corpus linguistics 
• The Roma minority and their languages in Europe 
• Linguistic minorities in the enlarged EU

Proposed themes for colloquia include (but are not limited to):

• Linguistic imperialism and bilingualism of minorities in Europe 
• Migration and bilingualism 
• Areas of citizenship, human rights, equality, and the trans-national/international nature of the Deaf community 
• European Union: Old and New - Common and specific linguistic arrangements in old and new Member States 
• The EU and the protection of linguistic minorities