If you wish to register for this conference please contact Nigel Birch, the FEL secretary at Nigel.Birch(at)epsrc.ac.uk.

20 Sept.
12:00-19:00 Arrival and Registration
19:00-22:00 Welcome dinner

21 Sept. Section 1 Setting the Scene: Our Place in the Media
9:00 George Jones Keynote Address: The state and the global marketplace in the provision of minority media services
9:45 Paul Lewis Local language media:what does it take?
10:15 Lachman Khubchandani Power of the media for the good of small languages: an Indian experience of enriching diversity
10:30 Coffee break

Section 2 How the State Caters for Language Minorities
11:00 Douglas Kibbee & Samira El Atia Language Protection & Cultural Policy in France
11.30 Brigitta Busch The virtual village square. Media in minority languages in the process of media diversification and globalisation: An example from Southern Carinthia (Austria)
12:00 Jilali Saib Maintenance & promotion of Berber: the role of the electronic media
12:30 Lunch

Section 3 Self-Help: Grass-Roots Solutions for Small Languages
15:00 Tom Sawallis Language in the Media Environment of the Florida Seminole
15:30 Elena Benedicto Indigenous Presence in the Nicaraguan Media: the Mayangna.
16:00 Coffee break

Section 4 New Media: a Place for Small Languages in Cyberspace
16:30 Mohamed Ouakrim Promoting the maintenance of endangered languages through the Internet: the case of Tamazight
17:00 Erica McClure The role of language in the construction of ethnic identity on the Internet: the case of Assyrian activists in Diaspora
17:15 Onno Falkena Frisian all over the world: the unique experience of one year
17:45 Close

19:30 or as arranged Video shows - 1

22 Sept. Section 5 Open Forum: Some Briefer Thoughts
9:00 Tapani Salminen Television news bulletins in Forest Nenets
9:15 Joe Pfaffe & Susan Schulman Nyae Nyae Revisited - the “village Schools Project” in Northern Namibia
9:30 Annatjie Louw Is language shift to English imminent amongst young Afrikaans-speakers in Rehoboth Gebiet?
9:45 Helene E. Hagan Funding an “ethnic diversity” Public Access Television Program in the USA: non-existent help
10:00 José Flores Farfán The use of different media in reversing language shift: Nahua Illustrations
10:15 Mark L. Chamberlin & Heno Sarv Geographic Center for Interactive Interdisciplinary Information
10:30 Coffee break

Section 6 Cementing the Community: Media as Carriers of Minority Traditions
11:00 Bernard Hervieux The new vibrations of the traditional "teueikan"
11.30 Asunción Martínez Arbeláiz Basque in the media
12:00 Julia Lonergan & Patricia Small Tarahumara ritual spectacle in Noriahuachi: visual metaphor experienced through mass media
12:30 Lunch
15.00 FEL Annual General Meeting
16:00 Coffee break
16:30 or as arranged Video shows - 2
17:30 Close

23 Sept. Section 7 Language in the Ether: Across Political Boundaries
9:00 Aurolyn Luykx Across the Andean Airwaves: Satellite radio broadcasting in Quechua
9:30 Abdallah Amountassir Le sort de la langue berbère à travers la déformation et la transformation du nom propre berbère
10:00 Helena Drysdale Silenced or liberated: Endangered languages in the European Union
10:30 Coffee break
11.00 Closing Session
12:30 Lunch