MELMUB
About
The International Conference on Minority and Endangered Languages in the Multilingual Context of the Balkans (MELMUB) conference is designed to bring together researchers, academics and experts working in the field of multilingualism with a focus on the area of Southeast Europe encompassing the countries of the former Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Albania, Kosovo, Greece, Moldova, Romania, Turkish Thrace. Its aim is to contribute to the study and discussion of old and new phenomena of linguistic diversity and plurilingual competencies in relation to minority and endangered languages from the perspectives of theoretical linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnography, language documentation, linguistic anthropology, ecology of language.
Keynote speakers
- Evangelia Adamou (National Centre for Scientific Research, France)
- Thede Kahl (Friedrich-Schiller University Jena & Austrian Academy of Sciences)
- Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade)
Organizing Committee
- Giustina Selvelli (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
- Iliyana Krapova (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
- Luisa Ruvoletto (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
- Giuseppina Turano (Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Programme
Monday, 12 December 2022 -morning session
- 9:00-9:15: Registration
- 9:15-9:30: Official greetings by Prof. Antonio Trampus, Director of the Department of Linguistics and Comparative Cultural Studies, Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, and by the Board of the Centro Studi sul Multilinguismo (CSML), Ca' Foscari University of Venice.
- 9:30-9:45: Introduction: Giustina Selvelli & Iliyana Krapova (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice).
- 9:45-10:30: Keynote lecture: Evangelia Adamou (National Centre for Scientific Research in France) “How to be both: Bilingualism in the Balkans and its effects throughout the centuries” (online).
- 10:30-11:00: Maria Morozova & Alexander Rusakov (Institute for Linguistic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia) “Societal multilingualism à la balkanique: A dynamic typology of Albanian-Slavic contact situations”.
- 11:00-11:30: Coffee break at Venice Eat
Chair: Luisa Ruvoletto
- 11:30-12:00: Olivier Winistörfer (University of Zurich) “Why minority languages matter. How Aromanian and West Rumelian Turkish help understand factors of societal multilingualism in the Balkan Sprachbund”.
- 12:00-12:30: Christian Voss (Humboldt University Berlin) “Linguistic self-empowerment of New Speakers: Slavic ethnic revival in Greece since the 1980s” (online).
- 12:30-13:00: Sasho Ognenovski (Perun Artis, Bitola) “In the shade of intercultural recognition”.
- 13:00-14:30: Lunch break.
Monday, 12 December 2022 - afternoon session
Chair: Giuseppina Turano
- 14:35-14:45: Sabira Ståhlberg (Independent scholar & polyglot writer) “Sunrise Sea, Sunset Summits – Waves and Winds of Multilingualism in the Balkans. Multilingual poetic reflections” (online).
- 14:45-15:15: Alberto Giudici (Pädagogische Hochschule, Chur) “Multilingualism in Istria: diachronic and synchronic considerations”.
- 15:15-15:45: Marianna Deganutti (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt) “Literary Borderlanguaging: the case of Trieste” (online).
- 15:45-16:15: Lara Sorgo & Sabina Zorčić (Institute for Ethnic Studies, Ljubljana) “Multilingualism in Minority Schools: the new realities”.
- 16:15-16:45: Edmond Cane (Center for Research and Publications on Arbëresh, Tirana) “Intertwining schooling, digital & social networking and broader communication within the community”.
- 16:45-17:15: Coffee break at Venice Eat
Chair: Giustina Selvelli
- 17:15-18:00: Keynote lecture: Thede Kahl (Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena & Austrian Academy of Sciences) “Wallah, wallah! Oriental influences on the Language of the Patriots (Greek Muslims from Western Macedonia) in Turkey” (online).
- 18:00-18:30: Cengiz Haksöz (Philipps-Universität Marburg) & Çağdaş Kılıç (Ankara University) “Politics of (In)Visibilities and Linguistic Landscapes in the Polyglossic Peripheries of Bulgaria”.
- 18:30-19:00: Iskra Dobreva (Independent researcher, Sofia) “Metathesis in Judeo-Spanish /rd/→/dr/ in its Balkan context” (online).
Tuesday, December 13, 2022 - morning session
Chair: Iliyana Krapova
- 9:15-10:00: Keynote lecture, Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade) “What's in a sign? The rural linguistic landscape of Vojvodina”.
- 10:00-10:30: Andrey Sobolev (Institute for Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Sciences & Philipps-Universität Marburg) “Serbian dialects in Kosovo and Metohia: the current state of affairs” (online)
- 10:30-11:00: Mirjana Mirić (Institute for Balkan Studies, Belgrade) “On the vulnerability of Romani in Serbia with regard to the type of the community”.
- 11:00-11:30: Coffee break at Venice Eat
Chair: Giustina Selvelli
- 11:30-12:00: Anastasia Kharlamova (Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences) “Affricates in the spontaneous speech of Albanian/Aromanian bilinguals in Selenica, Southern Albania” (online).
- 12:00-12:30: Christoph Giesel (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena) “Ethnic identity, socio-linguistic attitudes and language characteristics of the Bosniacs in Istanbul”.
- 12:30-12:45: Conclusive Remarks, Giustina Selvelli & Iliyana Krapova
- 13:00-14:30: Final Lunch
Venue
Sala B, Ca’ Bernardo,
Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, Italy