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S P E A K E R S
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L E C T U R E R S
JAMES HAWKEY
James is Associate Professor (Reader) in
Linguistics and Catalan Studies at the
University of Bristol, where he has worked
since 2014. His research chiefly focuses on
issues in contemporary Catalan
sociolinguistics. His specialisms within this
field are broad ranging, including language
attitudes, language contact, sociophonetics,
and issues surrounding language and
migration. He has primarily undertaken
sociolinguistic fieldwork in the Pyrenees
mountains (southern France and Andorra),
though his research interests also include
Catalan culture and politics more broadly.
He has published articles in several highranking peer-reviewed journals (including
the Journal of Sociolinguistics, the Journal of
Multilingual and Multicultural
Development, Language Policy and
the Journal of French Language Studies) and
his monograph Language Attitudes and
Minority Rights: The Case of Catalan in
France was published in 2018 with Palgrave
Macmillan. At present, he is working on two
concurrent research projects, one
supported by the Belgian National Fund for
Scientific Research (on language and
borderlands in the Pyrenees), and the other
financed by the Esperantic Studies
Foundation (on sociolinguistic variation
among speakers of Esperanto).
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MIRJAM VELLINGA
Mirjam Vellinga studied Frisian language
and literature at the University of Groningen
(RuG). She has been working at Afûk since
1998 and is currently the head of marketing
and manager of the language promotion
division. With her team, she designs
language strategies and promotional
campaigns for various target groups and
domains, including the private and public
sectors, healthcare, media, and education.
Mirjam has an extensive international
network in the fields of culture, media, and
education, focusing on co-official,
endangered, indigenous, regional, and
minority languages. She is a member of the
steering committee of ELEN (European
Language Equality Network) and a member
of the NPLD (Network to Promote Linguistic
Diversity).
Founded in 1928, Afûk is the organization in
Fryslân that promotes the Frisian language
and culture.
