MINELRES: Mercator Newsletter: number 58 - February 2010

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Mercator Newsletter - February 2010 

mercator research centre                
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mercator legislation                     
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mercator media
http://www.aber.ac.uk/~merwww/

Research Institute for Linguistics 
http://www.nytud.hu/eng/index.html

centre for finnish studies
http://www.mdh.se/2.985/utbildning/amnen/finska

This Mercator newsletter informs you about the news from the five
Mercator Network partners. The partners are Mercator Media/ University
of Wales in Aberystwyth, Mercator Legislation/ Ciemen in Barcelona,
Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language
Learning/ Fryske Akademy in Ljouwert/Leeuwarden, the Research Institute
for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in Budapest and the
Centre for Finnish Studies/ Malardalen University in
Eskilstuna/Vasteras. It appears eleven times a year and is linked to the
internet sites of each Mercator Network partner. For subscribing to the
newsletter or if you want to give a contribution to the newsletter, you
can contact us -
[email protected] .

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NEWS
    
Work visit to Scotland
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news0

Russian Federation actively working towards the European Charter for
Regional or Minority Languages 
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news01

Dutch government announces Frisian in Constitution 
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news2

The real situation regarding the use of Basque in schools in the Basque
Country
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news3

Official status for Catalan in the EU is a must, Catalan government says 
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news4

Wales ready to be transferred powers on language issues
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news12

Morocco launches first public Amazigh language TV ever
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news13

Education Specialists from the European Platform visited Fryske Akademy
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news5

Expert in the spotlight in 2010: Elin Haf Jones
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news22

Expert Seminar on Multilingual Early Language Transmission (MELT)
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news6

Expert Seminar on the "Added Value of Multilingualism and Multilingual
Education" 
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news24 


EVENTS

27 February, 9.30 am - 6.00 pm: Call for Papers Workshop: �Endangered
Languages, endangered knowledge & sustainability� at College Buildings,
School of Oriental and African Studies in London, UK. 
http://www.hrelp.org/

1�11 March: Dobes Winter School Saami Language Documentation and
Revitalization organised by the Bodo University College in Norway.
http://www.linguistik.uni-kiel.de/sldr/

7-11 April: Twelfth Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality on the topic
"Cultural Pluralism Revisited: Religious and Linguistic Freedoms in
Berlin".
http://www.irmgard-coninx-stiftung.de/

11-15 April 2010: International conference on New Challenges for
Multilingualism in Europe organized by the LINEE - Network of Excellence
will take place in Dubrovnik (Croatia).
http://www.amiando.com/lineeconference.html

15�17 April: Conference Preserving the Future: Sustainability of
Language, Culture and Nature and a Call for Papers organized by the
Vigdis Finnbogadottir Institute of Foreign Languages at the University
of Iceland and will take place in Reykjavik (Iceland).
http://www2.hi.is/Apps/WebObjects/HI.woa/wa/dp?detail=1025272&id=1022148

15-16 April: The Mercator Research Centre organizes a conference on
Multilingual Early Language Transmission. The conference will take place
at Leeuwarden (The Netherlands). For more information read the article.  
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news23

18-19 May: Mercator Media Conference on Media Convergence and Linguistic
Diversity: How can the creative industries contribute to language
vitality in a multiplatform environment? And a Call for Papers organised
by Mercator Media and will take place at Aberystwyth (Wales).
http://www.aber.ac.uk/cgi-bin/user/merwww/index.pl?rm=e_main

2-3 June: The Mercator Research Centre organises an Expert Seminar on
�Added Value of Multilingualism and Multilingual Education�. The seminar
will take place at Leeuwarden (The Netherlands). For more information,
read the article. 
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#news24

6-8 October: Call for papers Workshop: �Endangered Languages, endangered
knowledge & sustainability� at College Buildings, School of Oriental and
African Studies in London, UK. 
http://www.mims.uni-hamburg.de/submission.html



PUBLICATIONS

New titles Library Mercator Research Centre
http://www1.fa.knaw.nl/newsletter2010/MercatorNewsletter58.html#publications


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