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Madrid, Spain.  The Department of Basque Philology at the Complutense University in Madrid has organized a conference on multilingualism on the Iberian Peninsula at the end of the month.  The conference will talk about languages like Basque, Catalan, Galician, Spanish, Portuguese and immigrant languages.  The conference is not only directed at philologists, but also to anyone who is interested in the topic, and it is free. 

The aim of the conference is to “present multilingualism as part of the culture that enriches the society and so something that should be preserved,” according to organizers.  The conference was organized with the collaboration of the Etxepare Basque Institute.  Anyone wishing to attend should enroll before November 21, sending the enrollment form, here.

PROGRAM

Wednesday November 28
-15:30 Reception for enrolled students.
-16:00 Opening remarks:
-Joaquín Garrido Medina, Towards a Multilinguistic Policy in Spain
-Ricardo Pichel Gotérrez, Mental Cartographies of Galician, Key to the Galician-Portuguese

Linguistic Diasystem

-María Victoria Navas Sánchez-Élez, The Spanish-Portuguese Linguistic Border
-Juan Miguel Ribera Llopis, Code-Switching Spanish-Catalan
-Denis M. Canellas de Castro Duarte, Portuguese, Iberian and Universal Language: A Tour of the Five Parties
-Diego Muñoz Carrobles Diasystme, Standards, and Social Aspects in the Linguistic Dominion of Catalan

Thursday November 29

-10:00 Second Session:

-María Aránzazu Fernández Iglesias, What does a Girl Like me do with a Language like Basque? The Standardization of Basque as a Social Movement.
-Xavier Frías Conde, Philology, and Politics in Spain: Create and un-create of Languages by Decree

-Karlos Cid Abasolo, The Languages Spoken in the Iberian Vasconia: Spasque and Euskerish”

-Laura Mijares Molina, Rethinking Multilingualism in Spain, a reflection on the Position of Immigrant Languages

-For complete information and program here