Date: 30-31 January 2015
Venue: Waseda University, Waseda Campus, New 3rd Bldg., Room 701 (7th floor)
Preliminary Program
January 30th (Fri.)
Opening Remarks: 13:10-13:15
Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido U)
Keynote Lecture: 13:15-14:30
Chair: Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido U)
George J. Marvan (Charles U in Prague) “Łysohorskyʼs Poetic Lachian – a Museum
Exhibit or a Message for the Future?”
Session 1. Languages Emancipation in the Balkans: 14:30-16:00
Chair: Masumi Kameda (U of Tokyo)
Evangelia Adamou (French National Centre for Scientific Research): “Why Pomak will not be the Next New Literary Slavic Language and Why This Matters”
Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido U) & Bojan Belić (U of Washington): “Issues in Southeast European Language Emancipation”
Discussant: Dieter Stern (Ghent U)
Coffee break: 16:00-16:15
Session 2. Issues of Corpus Planning: 16:15-17:45
Chair: Satoshi Hashimoto (Hokkaido U)
Mira Načeva-Marvanová (J.E. Purkyně U): “Electronic Corpora of Slavic Micro-Languages at their Threshold – the State of the Art and its Further Prospects”
Jan Maksymiuk (Independent scholar): “The Development of a Latin Spelling System for Podlachian”
Discussant: Yukiyasu Arai (Hokkaido U)
January 31st (Sat.)
Special Presentation 1. 9:30-10:45
Chair: Bojan Belić (U of Washington)
Dieter Stern (Ghent U): “The Privacy of Having a Language of One’s Own: Slavic Regional Standard Projects and Minority Agendas Online”
Coffee break 10:45-11:00
Session 3. Linguistic Situations in Eastern Slovakia Today: 11:00-12:30
Chair: Satoshi Hashimoto (Hokkaido U)
Slavomír Ondrejovič (Ľ. Štúr Institute of Linguistics of SAS): “On the Eastern Slovak Linguistic Separatism”
Konstantin Lifanov (Lomonosov Moscow State U): “The Language of the Eastern Slovakia Landmarks of the Writing System from Modern Perspective” (in Russian)
Discussant: Susumu Nagayo (Waseda U)
Lunch break 12:30-14:00
Session 4. Micro-literary Languages in European Context: 14:00-16:00
Chair: Keiko Mitani (U of Tokyo)
Satoshi Terao (U of Tokyo): “The Possibility of the Mirandese Language as a Model for the Establishment and Promotion of Lesser-used Minority Languages”
Madlena Norberg (U of Potsdam): “The Maintenance of Lower Sorbian in Brandenburg”
Dicussant: Goro Christoph Kimura (Sophia U)
Special Presentation 2. 16:00-17:15
Chair: Motoki Nomachi (Hokkaido U)
Jaromira Labudda (Linia School): “The Kashubian Education Yesterday and Today”
General Discussion and Closing Remarks: 17:15-17:30
Chair: Dieter Stern (Ghent U)
Organized by:
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC), Hokkaido University, Japan
Ghent Center for Slavic and East European Studies (GCSEES), Ghent University, Belgium
Sponsored by:
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B "A Comprehensive Study of the Slavic Micro Literary Languages after Revolutions of 1989" (headed by Motoki Nomachi)
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research B "Images of East in Eastern European Literature" (headed by Ken-ichi Abe)
JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research A 25243002 (headed by Mitsuyoshi Numano)
The Japan Society for the Study of Slavic Languages and Literatures (JSSSLL)