Talks International Workshop "Visible and invisible borders"
• Konstanze Jungbluth (Frankfurt/Oder): Welcoming speech
• Nika Loladze (Tbilisi): Georgian Greeks – Chronicle of a migration foretold
Greeks in Georgia: The linguistic profile
• Stavros Skopeteas (Bielefeld), Evgenia Kotanidis (Tbilisi), Violeta Moisidi (Tbilisi): Dynamic lexicon: From individuals to communities
• Stefanie Böhm (Bielefeld): Differential object marking in Standard Turkish and Urum
• Rusudan Asatiani (Ilia) & Svetlana Berikashvili (Tbilisi): Morphological integration of Russian and Turkish nouns in Pontic Greek and in Georgian
• Marika Jikia (Ilia) & Nutsa Tsereteli (Tbilisi): Morphological integration of transfers from foreign languages in Caucasian Urum
• Johanna Neugebauer (Bielefeld): Possessive constructions in Urum language
Tuesday, September 2nd 2014
Greeks in Georgia: The socio (-linguistic) profile
• Natia Jalabadze (Tbilisi) & Lia Melikishvili (Tbilisi): Maintaining ethnic identity – Greeks in Tsalka district
• Zaal Kikvidze (Kutaisi): The sociolinguistic profile of Kvemo Kartli, Georgia: Dimensions and formulas
"Greek" speaking "diasporas"
• Dionysios Zoumpalidis (Cyprus): We and they: Inter- and intra communal ethno-linguistic borders. The case of Pontic Greeks in Cyprus
• Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge): Romeyka in Anatolia: Continuity, contact and change
• Laurentia Schreiber (Berlin): Language, Politics and Identity: A view from Muslim Pontic Greek in Turkey
Wednesday, September 3rd 2014
• Wolfgang Kesselheim (Zürich): The construction of borders and ethnic identities in everyday interaction: a conversation analytical perspective
• Dr. Eleni Sideri (Thessaloniki): Borders as tidemarks in the case of the Urumebi of Tsalka: Language, identity and place
• Concha Maria Höfler (Frankfurt/Oder): Who’s in, who’s out? Space and boundary making in rural Georgian Greek communities
• Ekaterine Kartvelishvili (Tbilisi): What does “homeland” mean? Sense of belonging among the second generation of Georgian Greek immigrants to Greece
• Konstanze Jungbluth (Frankfurt/Oder): Conference wrap up: Language change embedded in the social context