New Speakers in the City

The Centre for Celtic Studies and the Faculty of English hosted a seminar dedicated to Seachtain na Gaeilge on March 6th 2020. Seachtain na Gaeilge is an annual celebration of the Irish language that has been running since 1903 ( http://wa.amu.edu.pl/wa/node/11475 ). This year's event entitled Revitalising Minority Languages and Prior Ideological Clarification: The Case of Irish was opened by Dominic Berkeley, Second Secretary at the Embassy of Ireland and the Dean of the Faculty of English, Prof. Joanna Pawelczyk, and moderated by the head of the Centre for Celtic Studies as well as the PI of our project, Prof. Michael Hornsby. The following speakers presented during this year's event: Dr. Sara Brennan (Université de Lorraine) on Reviving, rebranding, reconnecting: The mobilization of Irish in business in post-crisis urban Ireland; Dr. Cassie Smith-Christmas (NUI Galway) on Inclusive Ireland: Using and Learning Irish as a Family; Prof. Tadhg Ó hIfearnáin (NUI Galway) on...

On March 5th 2020 the first team meeting for our NCN-financed project took place. We are planning six team meetings in total over the period of three years, in March and September each year, in Poznań, Warsaw, Rennes and Cottbus. This first meeting was organized by Michael and Joanna in Poznań, with Nicole visiting from Warsaw and Jeanne from Rennes. Our first team meeting was devoted to getting to know each other, planning the project's working packages (WPs) in more detail, discussing the first article that we are going to write together, as well as planning conference participation for 2020. We were lucky enough to manage to meet right before the global epidemic of COVID-19 forced many countries to introduce drastic restrictions to travel and public life. Unfortunately, many of the conferences we were planning to participate in have already been cancelled or postponed, among them the Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference, Budapest, Hungary (June), the Tenth Cambr...

The conference Language, Identity and Education in Multilingual Contexts took place at The Hague University of Applied Sciences on 20-21 February 2020. This conference was the third edition of the LIEMC (the first was held in Dublin in 2018 and the second in York in 2019), organized jointly by the Hague University of Applied Sciences, The Dutch Language Union – Taalunie and MultiLingNet. It was a relatively small event with three parallel sessions over two days and four keynote lectures given by: Xiao Lan Curdt-Christiansen on Family Language Policy: Does it Matter?, Tommaso M. Milani on Second Language Acquisition, Education and Social (In)Justice in a Multilingual Context, Roy Lyster on Research Perspectives on Integrating Language and Content, and Jos Beelen on From Mobility of the Few to Curriculum for All: Dutch Internationalization Anno 2020. With such a small crowd, everyone had the chance to talk to almost everyone else during coffee breaks, lunches and the conference ...