Digital media play an ever-increasing role in our communication behaviour. The increasing digitisation not only brings about new opportunities and challenges for everyday communication, it also opens up new perspectives for minority languages, which must be considered endangered despite the language policy efforts such as the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages.
The international and interdisciplinary conference will address the question as to which role the internet and digital media can play in the preservation of minority languages and how using digital forms of communication changes the use of minority languages. There are also plans to address and discuss perspectives of using digital forms of communication for the acquisition and teaching of minority languages.
Those interested must register for the event prior to 7 December 2020. The conference language is English.
Further Information
The conference is being funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG) and the Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach Foundation, Essen. The Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald (Institute for Advanced Studies) will provide the conference’s talks as a digital event series.
Access to the talks is provided via the software Zoom. A link will be activated 15 minutes prior to the start of the event, taking participants to a waiting area. They will then be forwarded automatically to the digital lecture hall at the time of the event.
Register online here
Conference homepage
Conference poster
Conference flyer
Contact at the University of Greifswald
PD Dr. Birte Arendt
Competence Centre for the Teaching of Low German
Rubenowstraße 3, 17489 Greifswald
Tel.: +49 3834 420 3440
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