With the support of 	

Third EUNoM symposium
Managing multilingual and multiethnic societies and institutions
Date: 20-21 June 2011
Venue:
University of Primorska
Faculty of Humanities
Tito Square 5 - 5 Titov Trg
6000 Koper – Capodistria, Slovenija
Provisional programme
Sunday 19 June 2010
19.00 - 22.00 Registration and buffet at Hotel Koper, Pristaniška 3, Koper- Capodistria 

Monday 20 June, Faculty of Humanities, Burja 1
09.00 – 09.30	Opening, welcome addresses, presentation of the symposium’s context 	
Session 1: Multilingual policies in contact areas: gaps and issues of national and international language policies at the local levels; demands in global scale and responses, local dimension of the language use. 	
09.30 – 10.15 	The quality of multilingual policies in contact areas. 
Paolo Balboni, University Ca’ Foscari, Venice (Italy)	
10.15 – 10.40 	The official Swedish language policy – rational and realistic? 
Björn Melander, Dept. of Scandinavian Languages, Uppsala University (Sweden)	
10.40 – 11.05	Multilingual policies in contact areas.
Kristin Tytgat, Erasmushogeschool Brussel (Belgium)	
11.05 	coffee & tea 	
11.25 – 11.45 	The Trilingual University as the Model for the Future.
Peeter Müürsepp, Tallinn University of Technology, Department of International Relations (Estonia)	
11.45 – 12. 05	(title to be defined) 
Helena Kesonen, Tartu University, South-Estonian Language and Culture Research Centre (Estonia)	
12.05 – 12.30	 discussion	
12.30 	lunch 	
Session 2: Managing language diversity at work: the global economy and the local dimension of language use.	
13.30 – 14.15
	New models for Multilingualism in Europe.
Lid King, National Director for Languages. The Languages Company (UK) 	
14.15 – 14.35 	Foreign Languages for Economic Development: An overview of the Romanian labour market. 
Roxana-Maria Gâz, Babeş-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca (Romania)	
14.35 – 14.55	(title to be defined) 
Peter Weber, University of München (Germany)	
15.00	coffee & tea	
15.45 – 16.10	The value of mastering languages in economy. 
Sonja Novak Lukanovič, Institute of Ethnic Studies, University of Ljubljana and Lucija Čok, University of Primorska	
16.10 – 17.30
	Group discussions: participants split into 2 groups 
Burja 2, Burja 3	
19.00	symposium dinner 	

Thursday 21 June, Faculty of Humanities, Burja 1
Session 3: New spaces for language and identity. Multiple identities within a global vision of political, social and cultural cooperation. Migration and cooperation.	
09.00 – 09.45
Burja 1 	New Spaces, Old Truths: Problematic Applications.
Colin H Williams, School of Welsh, Cardiff University (UK)	
09.45 – 10.10 	New languages, new identities… Language policy and development of new ethnolects in Central Europe.
Tomasz Wicherkiewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Dept. of Language Policy & Minority Studies (Poland)	
10.10 – 10.35 	English as a global lingua franca: A Threat to Multilingualism?
Juliane House, University of Hamburg, Institut für Allgemeine und Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft (Germany)	
10.35	coffee 	
11.00 – 11.45
Burja 1	New spaces for identity. 
Students and local representative: Jan Hrvatin (MA student), Moira Cavaion (PhD student), Ana Cukjati (BA), local representative 
Moderator: Lucija Čok, University of Primorska	
11.45 – 12.15 	Results of group discussions 	
12.15 – 12.45 	Dónall Ó Riagáin: Rapporteur's summary and concluding remarks 	
12.45 – 13.30 	Plenary discussion 	
13.30	Closing session 	
13.45 	lunch	
Further information:  Lucija Čok, Lucija.cok@upr.si (symposium coordination) 
		         Mojca Del Fabbro, mojca.delfabbro@fhs.upr.si (travel,accommodation)
		        Jasna Zorko, jasna.zorko@fhs.upr.si (accommodation, transfer, registration fee)