Open Conversation: From Recognition to Inclusion – Rethinking European Languages in Education
Join us at the European Day of Languages for this Open Conversation where we will discuss questions such as: What are European languages? Just English, French and German and so on? Or do they also include, for instance, Turkish, Vietnamese and Farsi? Which languages are actually spoken? And what does that mean for the school context?
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Time and Place: 26.09.2025 from 10:00 – 17:30 (CET), at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Auditorium Grimm-Zentrum, Geschwister Scholl Str. 1/3, 10117 Berlin (onsite), and online
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Registration: Please fill out the registration form here by 11 September for on-site participation and by 24 September for online participation. Participation free of charge. Please note that due to limited capacity, listener registration for on-site participation will be on a first-come, first-served basis. coordination-rueg@hu-berlin.de |
Programme:
10:00 – 12:00 hybrid (online, and onsite at Humboldt-Universität)
- Keynote by Christoph Schroeder: "When does a language become a heritage language, when a foreign language, when a minority language? On the necessity to rethink language naming in the multilingual school"
- Panel discussion
- Commentary by Elizabeth Beloe: "The Politics of Language Naming: From Description to Discrimination"
12:00 – 13:30 lunch break
13:30 – 17:30 onsite at Humboldt-Universität
- Roundtable 1: Educational Policy; chairs: Simon Calmar Andersen, Mehmet Fatih Özcan
- Roundtable 2: School Culture & Belonging; chairs: Ben Rampton, Eva Vetter
- Open discussion: Towards Solutions - Policies and Practices; chairs: Heike Wiese, İrem Duman Çakır, Annika Labrenz
Panel:
- Christoph Schroeder, Professor of German as a Second and Foreign Language, Universität Potsdam
- Elizabeth Beloe, head of German Federal Association of Networks of Migrant Organisations
- Simon Calmar Andersen, Professor of Political Science, Aarhus Universitet
- Ben Rampton, Professor of Applied and Sociolinguistics, King’s College London
- Eva Vetter, Professor of Language Teaching and Learning Research, Universität Wien
- Mehmet Fatih Özcan, Multilingualism Officer of the Berlin Senate Department for Education, Youth and Family
- Fanny Meunier, Professor of English language, linguistics, and teacher education and Academic Director for CU.mil, UCLouvain
- Heike Wiese, Professor of German in Multilingual Contexts and chair at CU.mil, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- İrem Duman Çakır, PhD student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Research Unit “Emerging Grammars in Language Contact Situations”
- Annika Labrenz, PhD student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Collaborative Research Centre “Register”
- Marius Keller, MA student at the Professional School of Education, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
- Josefine Hundelt, MA student at the Institute of German Language and Linguistics, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Registration