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Plenary speakers

We are proud to introduce our plenary speakers (in alphabetical order):

 

Alderik Blom

Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany

Alderik H. Blom studied history and music, as well as Celtic and Germanic philology in Utrecht, Amsterdam, and NUI Galway. From 2002 to 2010 he worked at the University of Cambridge (M.Phil., Ph.D., and postdoc), subsequently at the University of Oxford: first as postdoc and from 2013 as Associate Professor of Celtic. Since 2017 he has been Professor of Celtic in the Department of Comparative Indo-European Philology at the University of Marburg/Philipps-Universität Marburg in Germany. 

Lecture title: ‘Hor c’heneiled vreizhat ~ Ús Bretonske freonen: Relations between the Frisian and Breton movements, ca. 1946-1958’.

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Marguérite Corporaal

Radboud University, Nijmegen

Marguérite Corporaal grew up in Franeker (Frjentsjer), and is Full Professor of Irish Literature in Transnational Contexts at Radboud University, the Netherlands. She was the principal investigator of Relocated Remembrance: The Great Famine in Irish (Diaspora) Fiction, 1847–1921, for which she obtained a Starting Grant for Consolidators from the European Research Council (2010–15). Corporaal was awarded an NWO- VICI grant for her project Redefining the Region (2019-24) which explores the transnational dimensions of local colour during the long nineteenth century. 

Lecture title: ‘The Frisian Tryater and the Dublin Gate: Cosmopolitan Theatres, Minority Languages and Identity Construction’.

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Peter Gilles

Université du Luxembourg

Peter Gilles is full professor of linguistics at the Departmen of Humanities at the University of Luxembourg. His research has consistently aimed to explore and deepen our understanding of language variation, phonetics, and digital speech processing, particularly with a focus on low-resource languages such as Luxembourgish. 

Lecture title: The Evolution of Luxembourgish in Its Multilingual Setting

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Caterina Sugranyes

Universitat Ramón Llull, Barcelona (Spain)

Dr Caterina Sugranyes is a professor of Language Didactics and Education at the Faculty of Psychology, Education and Sport Sciences Blanquerna at the Ramon Llull University in Barcelona and the leading researcher of the Research Group GREDA_languages. She studied French philology and linguistics at the University of Barcelona and the University of Ghent in Belgium.

Lecture title: ‘Embracing a positive approach to promote effective plurilingual teaching through plurilingual wellbeing’

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