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Final programme of the
II Mercator International Symposium
Europe 2004: A new framework for ALL languages? 

FRIDAY, 27 February

9.00 - 9.30 am - Registration

9.30 - 10.00 am - Opening session and welcome

10.00 - 10.45 am - Opening plenary - Dr. Tove Skutnabb-Kangas
(University of Roskilde, Denmark)
The right to mother tongue medium education - the hot potato in
human
rights instruments (in English)

Session 1 - European Constitution and Linguistic Diversity (part
I)

10.50 - 11.15 am - Bojan Brezigar (President of the European
Bureau for Lesser-Used Languages, EBLUL) 
EBLUL's policy in relation to the constitutional draft (in
English)

11.15 - 11.45 am - Coffee break 

11.45 am - 12.10 pm - Dr. Niamh Nic Shuibhne (School of Law,
University of Edinburgh, Scotland)
Does the Draft EU Constitution contain a language policy? (in
English)

12.15 - 12.40 pm - Dr. Miriam Aziz (Robert Schuman Centre for
Advanced Studies, European University Institute, Florence, Italy)
Language rights in the EU and the modesty of the constitutional
moment: mainstreaming the duty of clarity and transparency (in English)

12.45 - 1.10 pm - Dr. Alessandro Pizzorusso (Dipartimento di
Diritto Pubblico, Universit? di Pisa, Italy)
Linguistic groups as cultural subjects, as political subjects
and as legal subjects (in Italian)

1.15 - 1.45 pm - Discussion

1.45 - 3.15 pm - Lunch

Session 2 - The role of European Institutions

3.15 - 3.40 pm - Regina Jensdottir (Secretariat of the Council
of Europe's Charter for Regional or Minority Languages) 
The Council of Europe Language Charter - perspectives, impact
and effectiveness? (in English)

3.45 - 4.10 pm - Associated Prof. Snezana Trifunovska
(Department of International and European Law of the Law Faculty,
University of Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Mechanisms guaranteeing linguistic rights: European Institutions
at work (in English)

4.15 - 4.40 pm - Kristin Henrard (Department of Constitutional
and International Law, University of Groningen, Netherlands)
The role of the European Charter for Regional or Minority
Languages as development of Article 22 of the European Charter of
Fundamental Rights and Article 3.3 of the new Constitutional Treaty (in
English)

4.45 - 5.10 pm - Robert Dunbar (Senior Lecturer in Law, The
School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland)
The European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages from the
perspective of other norms in European Law: A fully appropriate basis
for EU language policy? (in English)

5.10 - 5.30 am - Coffee break

5.30 - 5.55 pm - Teresa Conde?o (DG Education and Culture,
European Commission)
Linguistic Diversity: A framework for all languages (in English)

6.00 - 6.25 pm - Prof. Eduardo J. Ru?z Vieytez (Instituto de
Derechos Humanos, Universidad de Deusto, Basque Country)
Official languages and minority languages: issues regarding
their legal status through Comparative Law (in Spanish)

6.30 - 7.00 pm - Discussion

7.30 - 8.30 pm - Ceremony of the Linguapax Awards 2003
Introduced by Agust? Colomines (Director of UNESCO Centre of
Catalonia) and Aureli Argem? (CIEMEN/Mercator-Legislation)

Linguists awarded: Tove Skutnabb-Kangas and Aina Moll


SATURDAY, 28 February

Session 3 - European Constitution and Linguistic Diversity (part
II) 

9.00 - 9.25 am - Prof. Robert Phillipson (Department of English,
Copenhagen Business School, Denmark)
If language policy issues are explosive, how should they best be
handled? (in English)

9.30 - 9.55 am - Prof. ??igo Urrutia Libarona (Departamento
de Derecho Constitucional y Administrativo, Universidad del Pa?s Vasco
- UPV/EHU, Basque Country)
Perspectives of materialising the recognition of European
linguistic diversity: a legal analysis from the point of view of the
Basque language (in Spanish)

10.00 - 10.25 am - Gabriel Von Toggenburg (European Academy
Bolzano, South Tyrol)
'United in Diversity' - How much unity in what sort of diversity
does the new constitutional 'motto' of the EU have in mind? (in English)

10.30 - 10.55 am - Prof. Alok Kumar Das (Independent expert,
Germany)
Minority Language Laws in the EU: Process and Problem of Policy
Implementation (in English)

11.00 - 11.25 am - Bego?a Antxustegi & Amaia Agirre
(Direcci?n de Coordinaci?n de la Viceconsejer?a de Pol?tica
Ling??stica del Gobierno del Pa?s Vasco, Basque Country)
What are we talking about when we talk about linguistic
diversity in Europe. The role of official authorities in the safeguard
of the European cultural patrimony (in Spanish)

11.30 - 12.00 am - Coffee break

Session 4 - Round Table - Minority Languages in new EU member
states
Chaired by Bojan Brezigar (in English)
12.00 am - 1.30 pm

-Tsjerk Bottema (Mercator-Education, Friesland, Netherlands)
Minority languages and education in the new EU-member states (in
English)

-Ina Druviete (MP, Head of Human Rights Commission at the
Parliament of Latvia) 
The impact of EU accession for language and minority legislation
in Latvia (in English)

- Jean-Bernard Adrey (Centre for European Research Studies,
University of Portsmouth, UK)
The Copenhagen Criteria: Can they be applied to current members
in retrospect? (in English)

- Tomasz Wicherkiewicz (Department of Language Policy & Minority
Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University / President of PoLBLUL, Poland) 
The new minority languages in the new EU member states (in
English)

1.30 - 3.00 pm - Lunch

Session 5 - Study cases: Monitoring and follow-up experiences
regarding the implementation of legal measures

3.00 - 3.25 pm - Alex Riemersma (Director of Berie foar it Frysk
- Language Advisory Board of Friesland, Netherlands)
How can NGOs contribute to the use of minority languages within
local and regional authorities? (in English)

3.30 - 3.55 pm - Profs. Jaume Vernet & Santi Castell?
(Universitat Rovira i Virgili / Observatori de la Llengua Catalana,
Catalonia)
The implementation of the European Charter for Regional or
Minority Languages by the Spanish State in regard with the Catalan
language (in Catalan)

4.00 - 4.25 pm - Juan Inazio Hartsuaga (Director of Behatokia -
Observatory of Linguistic Rights, Basque Country/Navarre) 
Behatokia: an experience on social control of linguistic rights 
(in English)

4.30 - 4.55 pm - Jarmo Lainio (Centre for Finnish Studies,
M?lardalen University, Sweden)
Finally, one step forward, without two steps backward? 
The case of Sweden Finnish after receiving a minority status (in
English)

5.00 pm - End of the symposium
 
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Place: University Rovira i Virgili (Tarragona - Catalonia - Spain)
Dates: February 27-28, 2004 
Languages of the symposium:Catalan, Spanish and English 
 
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