Place names of Historical Linguistic Minorities in Italy
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The conference aims to open a scientific reflection on the status of place names of the country's historical linguistic minorities, in the light of Law no. 482 of 15 December 1999 and Presidential Decree no. 345 of 2 May 2001.
The meeting will be divided into two working sessions and two round tables and will aim to outline the topic from a geographical point of view, with necessary interdisciplinary contributions of a linguistic, anthropological and legal nature.
More specifically, the speeches of the various scholars from various Italian and foreign Universities will attempt to bring out the current geographical specificities of those territories in which the regulations for the protection of the language and culture of the Albanian, Catalan, Germanic, Greek, Slovenian, Croatian and French, Franco-Provençal, Friulian, Ladin, Occitan and Sardinian speaking populations are active.
The general work programme includes
- sessions with invited contributions/reports on the individual regional minorities of Italy;
- a round-table discussion with international native speakers (University of Barcelona, Innsbruck, Klagenfurt, etc....) who will bring their point of view on the minority language of their competence;
- another dialogue moment that opens a focus specifically on the Alpine territories with the participation of the directors of cultural institutes and associations of minority languages in the area and public administration officials;
- an excursion into the area by identifying a minority language destination in the region (Altipiani Cimbri Trentini).
There will be broad participation of geographers but also linguists and anthropologists, with a view to an interdisciplinary openness on the subject, as well as all the directors of the minority cultural institutes of the TAA region (Ladin, Cimbrian, Mocheni).
Program
02/07
9:00: INAUGURAL SESSION (INSTITUTIONAL SALUTES) and OPENING WORK
10:30: Coffee break
10:45: FIRST SESSION: The minority toponymy of Southern Italy
13:00: Lunch break
14:45: ROUND TABLE (first cycle) Historical linguistic minorities seen from the outside
16:45: Coffee break
17:00: ROUND TABLE (second cycle: repetitions) Historical linguistic minorities seen from the outside
18:00: Discussion on the day's themes
18:30: Closing of the first day's work
03/07
9:45: SECOND SESSION (first part) The Minority Toponymy of Northern Italy
11:00: Coffee break
11:15: SECOND SESSION (second part): The minority toponymy of northern Italy
12:30: Discussion on the morning's topics
13:00: Lunch break
14:30: ROUND TABLE (First part) The toponymy of the minority languages of the Alpine arc
16:30: Coffee break
16:45: ROUND TABLE (Second cycle: repetitions) The toponymy of the minority languages of the Alpine arc
Closing of proceedings
18:00: European minority language film screening
04/07
Geographical-linguistic excursion in the territory of Luserna
8:00: Departure by bus
15:00: Return to Trento
Promoters
United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) - Romano Hellenic Division (RHD)
Università degli Studi di Trento/ Dipartimento di Lettere e Filosofia
Regione Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige / Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol
Patrons
Associazione dei Geografi Italiani
Associazione Italiana di Cartografia
Associazione Italiana Insegnanti di Geografia
Centro Italiano per gli Studi Storico-Geografici
Consiglio Regionale del Trentino - Alto Adige / Regionalrat Trentino - Südtirol
Organization Commettee
Angelo Besana, Elena Dal Prà, Chiara Lo Destro, Federico Gestri, Sebastiano Rossi
Scientific Commettee
Andrea Cantile, Gianluca Casagrande, Annalisa D’Ascenzo, Joan Tort Donada, Cosimo Palagiano, Nicola Gabellieri, Federica Ricci Garotti, Matjaž Geršič