Programme

 

 

Wednesday 3rd September

20:30CONFERENCE WARMING at Restaurant Hirscheneck
  
 

Thursday 4th September

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

Llanito meets Rumantsch I

Gianna Olinda Cadonau and Gabriel Moreno

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

Llanito meets Rumantsch II

Flurina Badel and Jonathan Teuma

15:00

Llanito meets Rumantsch III

Ruth Gantert and Giordano Durante

16:00COFFEE BREAK
16:30

Round Table on Llanito & the linguistic situation in Gibraltar

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

Chair: Sandra Schlumpf-Thurnherr

18:30

Disgust  –  performance by Flurina Badel

20:00CONFERENCE DINNER at Restaurant Antalya
  
 

Friday 5th September

09:00

Studying Gibraltarian Language and Literature I

Chair: Marta Rodríguez García

  • Abderrazak Salim (University of Cádiz), Language variation and change within the Moroccan speech community in Gibraltar across three generations: sociolinguistic and phonetic research
  • Francisco Javier Fonseca (University of Cádiz), The study of the linguistic and semiotic landscape from a politico-linguistic and ethnographic approach: the case of Gibraltar
  • Jan-André Diederich (TU Dortmund), Moving Beyond Description: Implementing Inferential Statistics for theLinguistic Landscapes of Gibraltar and La Línea de la Concepción
10:30COFFEE BREAK
11:00

Studying Gibraltarian Language and Literature II

Chair: Ina Habermann

  • Verónica Silva Folgar (University of Vigo), The use of grammatical markers in spoken Gibraltar English: A corpus study
  • Rafael Vélez Núñez (University of Cádiz), Narrating silences in M.G. Sanchez’s short fiction
  • Ina Habermann (University of Basel), Llanito intertextualities in Gabriel Moreno’s poetry
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 Jackie Anderson and Rebecca Calderon, joined by Sophie Macdonald (online)

Chair: 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, including

  • Poetry Reading: Jackie Anderson
  • Dramatic Intervention featuring Rebecca Calderon’s Llevame Donde Naci
  • Slam Poetry Performance by Jonathan Teuma
  • Gabriel Moreno in Concert
  
 

Saturday 6th September

10:00

Isabel Alonso-Breto (University of Barcelona), M.G. Sanchez and Humbert Hernandez: Mapping Key GibraLit Tropes

Inputs from Authors’ studio and Scholars’ session

Final discussion

12:00Farewell and departure

last updated: 03-09-2025

 

 

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