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Programme (draft)

 

 

Wednesday 3rd September

20:00CONFERENCE WARMING
  
 

Thursday 4th September

09:00Arrival, registration, coffee
10:00Opening remarks by organizers and Keynote Lecture, Prof. Rico Valär (Zurich)
11:30

Llanito meets Rumantsch I

12:30LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements)
14:00

Llanito meets Rumantsch II

15:00

Llanito meets Rumantsch III

16:00COFFEE BREAK
16:30

Round Table on Llanito & the linguistic situation in Gibraltar

  • Sociolinguistics Inputs from Prof. David Levey, Prof. Elena Seoane, and Dr. des Marta Rodríguez García
  • Discussion; feedbacks from Flurina Badel and Gianna Olinda Cadonau

Chair: Prof. Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr

18:30

Disgust  –  performance by Flurina Badel

20:00CONFERENCE DINNER (Restaurant Antalya)
  
 

Friday 5th September

09:00

Studying Gibraltarian Language and Literature: Linguistics

Chair: Dr. des Marta Rodríguez García

  • Dr. Abderrazak Salim (University of Cádiz)
  • MA Francisco Javier Fonseca (University of Cádiz)
  • MA Jan-André Diederich (TU Dortmund)
10:30COFFEE BREAK
11:00

Studying Gibraltarian Language and Literature: Literature

  • Ina Habermann (University of Basel), Llanito intertextualities in Gabriel Moreno’s poetry
  • Isabel Jimenez (University of Basel), t.b.a.
11:30

Student inputs

  • Verónica Silva Folgar (University of Vigo)
  • Students from Language & Linguistics at the University of Basel and Bern
12:30LUNCH BREAK (own arrangements)
14:00
  • Authors’ studio – Writing and Migration  (room 11)
  • Projects and ongoing publications on Gibraltar and its linguistic/literary situation (Grosser Hörsaal)
15:30COFFEE BREAK
16:00

Narrating Gibraltar:
Conversation with Rebecca Calderon, Sophie Macdonald and M.G. Sanchez

Chair: Prof. Ina Habermann

17:30

Making Gibraltarian Voices Heard

  • Publishing in Britain (expert input by Josephine Cassaglia)

  • Gibraltarians for a Multilingual Society: current situation, challenges and plans (John Manuel Enriles & Dale Buttigieg)

19:00APÉRO RICHE
20:00

Performance evening and party

Readings, performances, music

  
 

Saturday 6th September

10:00Inputs from authors’ studio and scholars’ session and final discussion
12:00Farewell and departure

last updated: 14-7-2025

 

 

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