The Celtic Englishes

WEDNESDAY - 22 September 2004
15:00	Registration, Golm, House 14, "Kleiner Senatssaal"
19:00	Informal Get Together and Warming Up Hotel "Landhaus Potsdam", Golm
THURSDAY - 23 September 2004
8:00	Registration, Golm, House 14, "Kleiner Senatssaal"
9:00-10:00	Official Opening and Welcome Addresses: Director Kathryn Board of the British Council (Berlin) First Secretary Dr. Seán Ó Riain of the Embassy of Ireland (Berlin) The Dean of the Philosophical Faculty of the University Potsdam, Prof. Dr. Bernhard R. Kroener
10:00-11:00	David L. White (Austin TX): "The Gradience of Celticity in Englishes" Comments by: Simon Meecham-Jones (Cambridge) Comments by: Theo Vennemann (Munich)
11:00-11:30	Refreshments
11:30-12:30	Markku Filppula (Joensuu), Juhani Klemola (Tampere), and Heli Pitkänen (Joensuu): "What's Celtic and What's English in the 'Celtic Englishes' ? Comments by: Graham Shorrocks (Saint John's NL, Canada) Comments by: Kenneth Nilsen (Antigonish, Nova Scotia, Canada)
12:30-13:30	Lunch in "Mensa" Golm
13:30-14:30	Gary German (Brest) "Cultural Identity and the Symbolic Weight of Anthroponyms in Brittany" and Liam Mac Mathúna (Dublin): "What's in an Irish Name? A Study of the Personal Naming Systems of Irish and Irish English." Comments by: Seán Ó Riain (Berlin) Comments by: Johannes Heinecke (Lannion, France) Comments by: Heidi A. Lazar-Meyn (Toronto, Canada)
14:30-15:30	Erich Poppe (Marburg): "The Celticity of English Relative Clauses (and Related Matters)" Comments by: Patricia Poussa (Umeå, Sweden) Comments by: Malcolm Williams (Privas, Ardèche, France)
15:30-16.00	Refreshments
16.00-17:00	Raymond Hickey (Essen): "Contact, Shift and Language Change: Irish English and South African Indian English" Comments by: Robert Penhallurick (Swansea) Comments by: Gavin Falconer (Belfast/Dublin)
17:00-18:00	Elvira Veselinovic (Potsdam): "How to put up with cur suas le rud and with the bidirectionality of contact" Comments by: Ilse Wischer (Potsdam) Comments by: Gearóid Mac Eoin (Galway)
18:45	Reception of His Excellency The Ambassador of Ireland, Seán O'Huiginn, in His residence in Grunewald, Berlin.
FRIDAY - 24 September 2004
9:00-10:00	Alan Kent (Cornwall): "'Bringin' the dunkey down from the carn:' Cornu-English in Context" Comments by: Piotr Stalmaszczyk (Lodz) Comments by: Richard Matthews (Freiburg i.Brsg.)
10:00-11:00	John Kirk (Belfast) and Jeffrey Kallen (Dublin): "Standard Irish English: How Celticised? How Standardised?" Comments by: Séamus Mac Mathúna (Coleraine) Comments by: Christina Bismark (Potsdam)
11:00-11:30	Refreshments
11:30-12:30	Kevin McCafferty (Tromsø, Norway): "Irish English: The Formative Years" Comments by: Gunnel Melchers (Stockholm) Comments by: Ailbhe Ó Corráin (Derry)
12:30-14:00	Lunch in "Mensa" Golm
14:00-15:00	Karen Corrigan (Newcastle) and Joan Beal (Sheffield): "The Impact of Nineteenth Century Celtic English Migrations on Contemporary Northern Englishes: Tyneside and Sheffield Compared" Comments by: Angelika Lutz (Erlangen) Comments by: Patricia Ronan (Bonn)
15:00-16:00	Augustin Simo Bobda (Yaoundé): "Irish Presence in Colonial Cameroon and Its Linguistic Legacy" Comments by: Salikoko Mufwene (Chicago) Comments by: Astrid Fieß (Potsdam/Freiburg)
16:00-16:20	Refreshments
17:00	Guided tour of "Schloß Cecilienhof", location of the Potsdam Conference 1945
SATURDAY - 25 September 2004
9:00-10:00	Claudia Lange (Dresden): "Reflexivity and Intensification in Irish English and other New Englishes" Comments by: Andrea Sand (Freiburg i.Brsg.) Comments by: Clemens Fritz (Berlin)
10:00-11:00	Peter Siemund (Hamburg) "Independent Developments in the Genesis of Irish English" Comments by: Una Cunningham (Falun) Comments by: Raymond Hickey (Essen)
11:00-11:30	Refreshments
11:30-13:00	Round Table: "Unwinding the Celtic Englishes: The Problem of 'Celticity'"
13:00-14:00	Buffet Lunch, Golm, House 14
14:00-15:00	Hildegard L.C. Tristram (Potsdam): "Future Perspectives and Farewell Address"
20:00	Colloquium Dinner at "Schlosshotel Cecilienhof", Salon Frédéric

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