Looking Homewards:

University of Ulster, Belfast Campus, Room 82D23, 09.30, 5th September 2014

Mainstreaming Minority Languages, Literatures and Cultures

This conference was the first of two conferences which saught to examine ways to develop minority languages, literatures and cultures. Papers and panel contributions  addressed how ‘minority’ and ‘lesser-used’ languages and their associated literatures in the UK and Ireland seek to preserve, understand and develop their status within their jurisdictions. I attended with my Pretani Associate Helen Brooker.

Speakers included:

Bill Smith (Ministerial Advice Group for the Ulster Scots Academy) Ian Crozier, (Ulster Scots Agency), Prof. Jeremy Smith (University of Glasgow), Jon Mills (University of Kent), Wesley Hutchinson (l’Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3), Professor Robert Millar (University of Aberdeen), Professor Diarmait Mac Giolla Chríost (Cardiff University), Aodán Mac Póilin (ULTACH Trust), Geraint Jennings (L’Office du Jèrriais), Maolcholaim Scott (Colmcille).

The conference was organised by Frank Ferguson and Kathryn White:

for more details contact f.ferguson@ulster.ac.uk or k.white@ulster.ac.uk.