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<td valign="top" colspan="2"><img title="pfd.jpg" style="FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 5px; WIDTH: 300px; HEIGHT: 107px" height="107" alt="pfd.jpg" src="http://www.eblul.org/images/stories/pfd.jpg" width="300">The line-up for this year’s Partnership for Diversity (PfD) 2009 conference has been finalised with part of the conference featuring experts and discussion on linguistic rights. The subject is highly topical in Europe at the moment because of the situation over the Slovak language law and the general lack of substantive linguistic rights for many speakers of minority and/or stateless languages.
<p>The conference, organised by EBLUL and Mercator, will be held in Ljouwert (Leeuwarden), Fryslan from 29th to 31st October. Registration has been extended until 15th October. </p>
<p>Featured speakers include Karl-Heinz Lambert, Prime Minister of the German Community in Belgium, Dr. Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez an expert in the emerging field of linguistic rights from the University of Deusto in the Basque Country, and Professor Siv Sandberg on ‘Act to Action’ - the implementation of language legislation. </p>
<p>In addition, Alexey Kozhemyakov, from the Secretariat of the Council of Europe’s European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (ECRML), and former MEP Marieke Sanders ten-Holte, who sits on the Advisory Committee of the Framework Convention for National Minorities, will be holding a workshop on the ECRML. </p>
<p>EBLUL MSC Presidents, Tangi Louarn, László Öllös and Athanassios Parisis will be holding a workshop on individual and collective linguistic rights which will produce a draft resolution to be voted on in the EBLUL General Assembly the following day. László Öllös, a professor at the Forum Institute, Samorin, is from the Hungarian community in Slovakia where a tense situation continues after the imposition of the Slovak language law. </p>
<p>This year PfD is followed by the Liet song contest, which has become one of the main events in the calendar for lesser used language speakers. It rivals the Eurovision song contest for songwriting originality and that the contestants compose and sing in their own language – not in English. It follows PfD on Saturday 31st with all conference delegates welcome. (Davyth Hicks, Eurolang 2009) </p>
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><br><font size="2">"The challenging relationship between transmission of cultures and transmission of languages" </font><br><font size="2">30-31 October 2009 </font><br><br><font size="2">Venue: Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, The Netherlands </font><br>
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<h2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><font size="2"><font size="2">Thursday 29 October</font></font></h2><font size="2"><font size="2">Venue: It Aljemint, Fryske Akademy, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden<br><br>10.00 Meeting of the Board of Directors of EBLUL, including lunch<br>
<br>18.00 Early registration and informal get-together with buffet<br><br><br></font></font>
<h2 style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><font size="2"><font size="2">Friday 30 October</font></font></h2><font size="2"><font size="2">Venue: Theatre De Harmonie, Ljouwert/Leeuwarden<br><br>08.40 – 09.00 Registration & coffee.<br>
<br>09.00 – 09.20 Welcome & addresses: <br></font></font>
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<li><font size="2"><font size="2">Council of Europe, <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alexey Kozhemyakov</span>, head of the secretariat of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages</font></font> </li></ul><font size="2"><font size="2"><br>
09.20 – 09.40 Opening speech.<br><br>
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<td><font size="2"><font size="2">(a) The role and responsibility of regional and local authorities towards the protection and promotion of RMLs and cultures.</font></font></td></tr></tbody></table><br>09.40 – 10.20 <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Karl-Heinz Lambertz</span>, Prime Minister of the Government of the German speaking community in Belgium, and Minister for Local Authorities<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Regional and Minority Languages: an Asset for Regional Development<br></span><br><br>10.20 – 10.50 Photo session & coffee/tea<br><br>
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<td><font size="2"><font size="2">(b) The function of legislation: cultural and linguistic rights for the preservation and promotion of RMLs and cultures.</font></font></td></tr></tbody></table><br>10.50 – 11.20 Dr. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez</span>. Doctor in Law and lecturer in Constitutional Law. He has taught courses in diverse European universities and is a collaborator of the Council of Europe in the area of linguistic minorities.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Linguistic rights within a human rights framework: current challenges and opportunities for the protection of minority languages</span><br><br>11.20 – 12.00 Prof. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Siv Sandberg</span>, professor in Public Administration at the university Åbo Akademi in Finland.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Act to Action<br><br></span>12.00 – 13.30 Workshop 1 (several parallel groups) related to themes (a) and (b), e.g.:<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic"><br></span><br></font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Act to Action</span><br>
In this workshop the Act to Action report presented by Prof. Siv Sandberg will be discussed and compared with the situation in other regions, e.g. Navarra/Basque Country, Wales and Fryslân. After an introduction and some short reflections the participants can ask questions and they can discuss different topics with the experts present.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span> <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold"><br>Meirion Prys Jones</span>, Chief Executive of the Welsh Language Board and Chair of the Network to Promote Linguistic Diversity (NPLD).<br>
Prof. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Siv Sandberg</span>.<br><br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">10 years Charter for Regional or Minority Languages: what will the future bring?</span><br>What has been done the last 10 years, but more important, what will the future bring is the essence of this workshop. After an introduction and some short reflections the ideas of the participants on this topic can be shared and discussed with the experts present.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alexey Kozhemyakov</span>, head of the secretariat of the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages (chair of the workshop).<br>
Drs. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Marieke Sanders-ten Holte</span>, member of the advisory committee of the Framework Convention.<br>Dr. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Eduardo J. Ruiz Vieytez</span>.<br><br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Trilingual School model, which is developed in Fryslân in the years 1997-2005.</span><br>
What is the trilingual school model in Fryslân and what were the results of the pilot project? And how will the model continue? And what kind of models are present in other countries? These will be presented and afterwards room is available for questions and discussion.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span><br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jelle Bangma</span>, co-ordinator of the Frisian trilingual school model and Dutch MSC-president (chair of the workshop).<br>Dr. <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Alex Riemersma</span>, researcher at the Mercator Research Centre.<br>
<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Individual and collective linguistic rights.</span><br>During this special workshop a text for a resolution will be drawn up (in advance a draft will be made), which the General Assembly of the EBLUL will vote on the next day. This workshop will consist of max. 10 participants.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span> <br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Tangi Louarn</span>, co-founder of the Diwan schools, president of the Cultural Council of Brittany and president of the French MSC.<br>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Athanassios Parisis</span>, president of the Greek MSC.<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Laslo Öllos</span>, president of the Slovak MSC.<br><br><br>13.30 – 14.30 Lunch.<br><br>
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<td><font size="2"><font size="2">(c) New trends in formal and informal transmission of cultures and languages <br>(including presentation of the new pavilion for new language experiences such as in Fryslân (“Lân fan taal”) as well as in Barcelona (“Linguamón”) and others.</font></font></td>
</tr></tbody></table><br>14.30 – 15.10 <span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Bert Looper</span>, director of Tresoar</font></font></font><em style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,Helv,sans-serif"><span lang="EN-GB" style="FONT-SIZE: 11pt"></span></em><br>
<font style="FONT-STYLE: italic" size="2"><span style="FONT-FAMILY: Arial,Geneva,Helvetica,Helv,sans-serif">General principals and possibilities of the visualisation of languages.</span></font><br><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><br>
15.10 – 16.40 Workshop 2 (several parallel groups) related to theme (c).<br><br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Lân fan Taal (country full of languages)</span><br>In this workshop several examples on how languages have been visualised in several regions will be presented. Differences will appear and how can be learned from best practises? This can be discussed with the experts present.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span> <br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Bert Looper</span> (chair of the workshop).<br><br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Language promotion</span><br>In this workshop several examples of language promotion in the province of Fryslân will be presented. Special attention will be given to the Afûk foundation, who’s goal is to promote the knowledge and use of the Frisian language as well as promoting the interest in Fryslân and its culture. Examples of their projects are Praat mar Frysk, Edufrysk and Volangteers.<br>
<span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence </span> <br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sytske de Jong</span>, province of Fryslân (chair of the workshop).<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Coby Hoogkamp</span>, province of Fryslân, on the MATCH project<br>
<br><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Media: TV and internet-TV</span><br>Many examples of the presence of minority languages on TV and internet-TV can be found. In this workshop only a few of them can be shown. But hopefully the participants will give input for more ideas? After an introduction to the theme and some examples, there will be room for questions and discussion with the experts present.<br>
</font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Confirmed presence</span> </font></font></font><br><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Birger Winsa</span>, researcher at the Department of Finnish, Stockholm University and organiser of two editions of Liet International/Liet Lavlut.<br>
<span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Jacco de Boer</span>, tv-producer and working on video and internet concepts, e.g. Froeks.tv<br><span style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Bart Kingma</span>, Omrop Fryslân, school-tv<br><br></font></font></font><font size="2"><font size="2"><font size="2"><span style="FONT-STYLE: italic">Culture and education</span><br>
During this special workshop a text for a resolution will be drawn up (in advance a draft will be made), which the General Assembly of the EBLUL will vote on the next day. This workshop will consist of max. 10 participants.<br>
<br>18.00 Reception at the Town Hall of Ljouwert/Leeuwarden<br><br>20.00 Dinner buffet in the restaurant “Koperen Tuin”.<br><br>Both the reception and the dinner buffet will be combined with the participants, jury members and co-workers of the European songcontest for minoritylanguages Liet International. More information on Liet International, and the regions represented at the contest, can be found at: <span><a href="http://www.liet.nl/" target="_blank"><font color="#6aa94e">www.liet.nl</font></a></span>.<br>
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<br>9.30 – 10.00 Coffee<br><br>Parallel:<br>10.00 – 12.00 General Assembly EBLUL<br>10.00 – 12.00 Workshop 3 (TBC). <br><br>12.00 – 13.00 Lunch <br><br>13.00 – 16.00 Visit to several museums in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden<br>
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<div></div><br><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br>
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