Month: March 2016
Researchers in the Islands: Eriskay, Grimsay, Scalpay
March 31, 2016
The Islands Gaelic Research Project takes a step forward in April with researchers going from house to house in Eriskay, Grimsay, and Scalpay. Please click on the posters below for further information.
Conference Registration Open
March 4, 2016
We kindly ask all participants to register for the June conference before 01/05/2016. To register for the conference, please follow these steps:
- Please go to this Eventbrite page to pay the registration fee (£125, which includes conference pack, tea/coffee breaks, lunches, and conference dinner followed by a cèilidh)
- After you have paid the registration fee, please fill in your details on this Google form.
Lecture by Professor Conchúr Ó Giollagáin
March 2, 2016
“Rethinking Our Condition: Language Minorities in Globalised Modernity”
In his inaugural lecture, on 19/04/16, Professor Conchúr Ó Giollagáin will offer a reappraisal of the minority language condition from the joint perspective of local and global challenges. He examines how modernity has influenced our contemporary world in contradictory ways. On the one hand, it has ushered in enormous socio-cultural change which has manifested itself chiefly as metropolitan diversity. On the other hand, this trajectory of change has also witnessed the emergence of a destabilising dynamic which now threatens the survival of the minority language groups constituting much of the world’s cultural diversity. In the context of contemporary scholarship on the Celtic languages, he questions whether the current academic configuration of Celtic Studies, an exploration of past cultural heritage wedded to utopian cosmopolitan sociolinguistics, offers the most suitable intellectual basis for current challenges. Conchúr sets out the need for a different response to current circumstances and outlines an alternative approach to addressing the challenges of the minority language condition.
Further information here.