09:00-09:15 Welcome address by Erhard Reckwitz (Dean of the Faculty of Humanities)
09:15-10:00 Self-Introduction Participants

Chair: Thomas Heberer
10:00-10:55 Peter Mühlhäusler (Adelaide University) How can dominated languages be marketed? With special reference to Norf'k (Norfolk Island, South Pacific
11:00-11:55 Bernard Spolsky (Bar-Illan University) The prediction of natural intergenerational language transmission: a model and some cases

Lunch break

Chair: David Bradley
13:00-13:55 Sue Wright (Portsmouth University) New rights for regional languages - the case of Occitan and its neighbours
14:00-14:55 Masahide Ishihara (University of the Ryukyus) Can Kutuba no hi be a savior for Okinawan languages

Coffee break

Chair: Peter Mühlhäusler
15:30-16:25 Colin Williams (Cardiff University) When Mandarin gates yield
16:30-17:30 Tessa Carroll (Stirling University) Saving a precious cultural heritage symbol of Scotland? Or waste of money? Current attitudes to Gaelic language policy in Scotland

Chair: Tessa Carroll
09:00-09:55 Tjeerd de Graaf (Fryske Akademy) Endangered languages and endangered archives in the Russian Federation
10:00-10:55 Shinsho Miyara (University of the Ryukyus) Training teachers for Okinawan language revitalization
11:00-11:55 Patrick Heinrich (University Duisburg Essen) Language endangerment in the Ryukyu Islands – where exactly is the threat?

Lunch break

Chair: Olivia Kraef
13:00-13:55 Noriko Watanabe (City University of New York) Envisioning individual identity in Japan: language policies, ideology and orthography
14:00-14:55 Bairon Fija (Radio Okinawa): Redefining Uchinā history

Excursion to Zollverein Essen (18:00) and conference dinner at Casino Essen (20:00)

Chair: Sue Wright
09:00-09:55 Henning Klöter (Leiden University) The reshuffling of Taiwan’s linguistic hierarchy: purpose, strategies, and effects
10:00-10:55 Shin Matsuo (Tunghai University) Language choices and language attitudes in Taiwan
11:00-11:55 Yuko Sugita (University Duisburg Essen) Some suggestions for language documentation from the viewpoint interactional linguistics

Lunch break

Chair: Colin Williams
13:00-13:55 David Bradley (La Trobe University) Changing attitudes and maintaining endangered languages
14:00-14:55 Suhua Hu (Central University for Nationalities Beijing) Domains of Yi language in the Liangshan Yi Autonomous Prefecture
15:00-15:55 Hongkai Sun (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences) Applying the UNESCO criteria for assessing language endangerment to PR China's minority languages

Concert: Bairon Fija at Pianissimo in Duisburg (18:00)