New Speakers in the City

The Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland is pleased to invite established scholars and early career researchers to submit abstracts for thematic sessions or general session papers (max. 300-350 words plus bibliography) for talks of 20 minutes plus ten minutes of discussion, which will take place during 9-11 October 2020. Please submit your paper proposals via email to pccs@wa.amu.edu.pl . PCCS meetings provide a forum for high quality papers on a variety of aspects of Celtic Studies, including histories of the Celtic regions, Welsh / Irish / Scottish Gaelic / Breton literatures, Celtic folklore, archaeology, teaching of Celtic languages, and cultures of the Celtic countries. We also invite papers on sociolinguistics of the Celtic languages. According to Monica Heller, we are currently witnessing the creation of ‘new spaces’ for minorities to express themselves, while producing tensions which exist between the ‘idealized’

Welcome to the website of the project "Language revitalization without native speakers: The cases of Breton in Upper Brittany and of Sorbian in Lower Lusatia", hosted at the Centre for Celtic Studies at the Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland. The website will be updated regularly with news about our activities: conferences organized and visited, meetings, lectures and presentations, fieldwork and other events. The menu in the upper right-hand corner contains the blog archive, list of labels and contributors, and a contact form with which you can reach our team. NCN OPUS 162018/31/B/HS2/00844 - "Rewitalizacja języka bez udziału jego rodzimych użytkowników: Studium języka bretońskiego w Górnej Bretanii oraz języka łużyckiego na Dolnych Łużycach" / Language revitalisation without native speakers: The cases of Breton in Upper Brittany and Sorbian in Lower Lusatia. 05.07.2019-04.07.2022