Nitobe 2021 ~ Programme      PDF-download of the programme and presentation abstracts

MONDAY 26 JULY 2021 ~ 12.30 (Belfast / London time)

Welcome address – Professor Paul Carmichael, Associate Dean (Global Engagement) in the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Ulster University

Welcome and introduction to the day – Michele Gazzola (Ulster University)
Introduction to CED, ESF and Nitobe – Humphrey Tonkin (University of Hartford)

SECTION 1 ~ 13.00 – 15.45
Language policy in Northern Ireland and implications for power-sharing in contested societies

(1) Sarah Williams (Governance and Compliance Manager, Belfast City Council) ~ 30 mins
Belfast City Council’s Language Strategy 2018-2023 

(2) Philip McDermott (Ulster University) ~ 20 mins
Linguistic recognition and deeply divided societies: from accommodation to dialogue?

Section 1a ~ Questions and Answers ~ 15 mins

Break ~ 15 mins

(3) Janice Carruthers and Mícheál Ó Mainnín (Queen’s University, Belfast) ~ 20 mins
Language policy in Northern Ireland after ‘New Decade New Approach’.

(4) Niall Comer (Ollscoil Uladh/ Ulster University) ~ 20 mins
Preparing the path for language legislation: Conradh na Gaeilge, Ulster University and the New Decade, New Approach deal.

(5) Raffaella Folli, Juliana Gerard, Lynda Kennedy, Susan Logue and Christina Sevdali (Ulster University) ~ 20 mins
Lessons from multilingual immigrant pupils: 10 years of Ulster Centre on Multilingualism (UCoM)

Section 1b ~ Questions and Answers ~ 25 mins

SECTION 2 ~ 16.00 – 17.30
Language in humanitarian crises and pro-active peace-building in the global context

(1) Carmen Delgado Luchner (University of Fribourg) ~ 30 mins
Planning the unpredictable: the managing of language intermediaries in humanitarian organisations.

(2) Javier Alcalde (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona; Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) ~ 20 mins
Peace and linguistic diversity. Which role for Esperanto?

Section 2 ~ Questions and Answers ~ 15 mins

Concluding remarks and wrap
END OF DAY ONE

TUESDAY 27 JULY 2021 ~ 12.30 (Belfast / London time)

Welcome and introduction to the day – Angela Tellier (University of Essex) ~ 5 mins

CED’s Academic Publications – Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) ~ 10 mins

SECTION 3 ~ 12.45 – 15.35
Language in the context of security and conflict resolution in Europe

(1) Alessandro Rotta (Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe) ~ 30 mins
Language policies as a conflict prevention tool: the experience of the High Commissioner on National Minorities.

(2) Roberta Medda-Windischer (Institute for Minority Rights, Eurac Research) and Sia Spiliopoulou Åkermark (Åland Islands Peace Institute) ~ 20 mins 
Linguistic integration indicators as a tool for linguistic justice: evaluating the implementation of Ljubljana Guidelines-based policies through indicators.

(3) Sarah McMonagle (University of Hamburg) ~ 20 mins
Language Policy in multilingual cities.

Section 3a ~ Questions and Answers ~ 25 mins

Break ~ 15 mins

(4) Sonja Novak Lukanovič (University of Ljubljana) ~ 20 mins
Is language contact in Slovenia marked by language conflict?

(5) Ljubica Djordjević (European Centre for Minority Issues) ~ 20 mins
Linguistic nationalism: legal status of languages/”languages” that emerged from the Serbo-Croatian.

Section 3b ~ Questions and Answers ~ 20 mins

SECTION 4 ~ 15.50 – 17.30
Promoting Linguistic Justice

(1) Irmgarda Kasinskaite-Buddeberg (UNESCO) ~ 30 mins
International Decade of Indigenous Languages (2022-2032) as one of the international cooperation mechanisms for the promotion of language justice.

(2) Michele Gazzola (Ulster University) and Mark Fettes (Simon Fraser University) ~ 30 mins
An index of linguistic justice as a tool for conflict pre-emption.

Section 4 ~ Questions and Answers ~ 15 mins

Concluding remarks and wrap
END OF NITOBE SYMPOSIUM

Conveners: Michele Gazzola, Angela Tellier, Mark Fettes, Humphrey Tonkin.
Interpreters: Duncan Charters and Istvan Ertl.
We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Esperantic Studies Foundation.