The Theme / Press ReportsIt is only natural that an AILA World congress in Europe should focus on aspects of multilingual matters and the linguistic richness of this continent. The European Union and the Council of Europe have a clearly defined policy to preserve Europe as a multilingual and multicultural region. Because of the expansion of the European Union in the coming years, multilingualism and the challenges and opportunities connected with it will be a very topical theme in 2008, thus attracting a lot of attention and promising to be a great stimulus for academic debate. Consequently, the GAL-Executive and the AGM chose
as the theme for the 2008 congress.
It is felt that Germany with its growing migrant community, and the Ruhr Area as a region which managed to form a very special community from multicultural and multilingual roots during the first industrial revolution are particularly well suited to host a conference on this topic.
To learn more about our conference theme take a look at our press reports of your free disposal and at the invitation to our press briefing at the CCE on Monday, August 25th at 12 pm.
“Das Europa der Migranten” (The Europe of Migrants)
“Partner beim Sprachen lernen” (Partners in language learning)
Unfortunately, these reports can—at the moment—only be provided in German.
For further information feel free to contact our press team:
Germany:
Prof. Dr. Stephan Habscheid, Universität Siegen, Fachbereich 3, Germanistik/ Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft, D-57068 Siegen, Tel.: +49 271 740 4571, -2349, Fax: +49 271 740 3246, E-Mail: habscheid@sisib.uni-siegen.de
Dr. Vasco Schmidt, Zeppelinstr.3, D-69168 Wiesloch, Tel.: +49 6222 3058153 oder +49 6227 7 62571, E-Mail: schmidt.vasco@web.de
Patrick Voßkamp, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Fachbereich Geisteswissenschaften/ Germanistik/Linguistik, D-45117 Essen, Tel. : +49 201 183 4216, Mobil: 0176/81022281, Fax: +49 201 183 4409, E-Mail: patrick.vosskamp@uni-due.de (registration for the Congress Opening Ceremony).
International/ Conference Chair der AILA 2008:
Prof. Dr. Bernd Rüschoff, Universität Duisburg-Essen, D-45117 Essen, Tel.: +49 201 183 4052, -3460, E-Mail: bernd.rueschoff@uni-due.de