ELEN 2024 BATZAR OROKORRA

Assemblée Générale 2024 du ELEN
Réseau Européen pour l’Égalité des Langues
8-10 novembre 2024
Bilbo, Euskal Herria

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All conferences will be broadcast live through EITB.eus (in Basque language)

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FRIDAY November 8th

Venue: Itsasmuseum

* Interpretation in Basque and English.

Research and Activism

14.25 Recent research on the Basque language.

Welcome words from Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones, ELEN President, Davyth Hicks, ELEN Secretary-General, and Idurre Eskisabel, Kontseilua Secretary-General.

14.30 New keys for the interpretation of demolinguistic data.

  • Iñaki Iurrebaso (UEMA)
  • Moderator: Idurre Eskisabel

15.15 Language use and gender.

  • Lorea Agirre (Jakin)
  • Dani Amarelo (USC Researcher)
  • Moderator: Idurre Eskisabel

16.00 Digitalization and minoritized languages.

  • Aitzol Astigarraga (Elhuyar-ORAI Project Coordinator)
  • Moderator: Idurre Eskisabel

Project Presentation

16.45 Plurilingmedia – the new COST ACTION PROJECT on language diversity in European media.

  • Craig Willis (ECMI)
  • Moderator: Elin Jones

17.05 Roundtable discussion: differing approaches to language activism.

  • Conchúr Ó Giollagáin (UHI)
  • Ciarán Mac Giolla Bhéin (Glór na Móna)
  • Elena Jimenez (Omnium Cultural)
  • Moderator: Elin Jones

17.30 CLOSE.

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SATURDAY November 9th

Venue: Itsasmuseum

* Interpretation in Basque and English.

08.45 Accreditation opens.

09.05 Official Opening and Welcome.

Opening short speeches.

  • Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones, ELEN President
  • Davyth Hicks, ELEN Secretary-General
  • Idurre Eskisabel, Kontseilua Secretary-General
  • Eider Inunciaga, Bilbao Council
  • Leixuri Arrizabalaga, Bizkaia Provincial Council
  • Ibone Bengoetxea, Basque Government Vice-President and Spokesperson

09.30 PANEL I: The importance of public policies in the normalization of minoritised languages.

First Panel: The Basque Reality.

  • Paul Bilbao, former Secretary-General of Kontseilua and former ELEN Vice-President.

Second Panel: Other national and European perspectives.

  • Mirjam Vellinga, Afuk/ ELEN Vice-President, Fryslan.
  • Marcos Maceira, A Mesa pola Normalisation Linguistica, Galicia.
  • Vesna Crnić–Grotić Council of Europe ECRML Committee of Experts (Croatia).
  • Moderator: Davyth Hicks / Elin Jones.

10.20 Plenary Speech: The successful revitalization of Basque in Tolosa

  • Kike Amonarriz
  • Moderator: Manex Mantxola (coordinator of Kontseilua)

10.50 Group Photo.

11.00 Coffee

11.30 PANEL II: Arnasguneak (Language Breathing Spaces) / High density areas: focus on the Basque Country and Wales.

  • Miren Segurola (UEMA coordinator): Arnasguneak (breathing spaces) from a broader perspective.
  • Elin Haf Gruffydd Jones and Richard Glyn Roberts, Empowering Communities, Strengthening the Welsh Language, The Commission for Welsh-Speaking Communities Report and BRO: Comprehensive Sociolinguistic Survey of Contemporary Welsh-speaking Communities.

12.20 – 17.30 ELEN BUSINESS (ONLY FOR ELEN MEMBERS)