Thursday, 29 September

19.00

CONFERENCE WARM-UP

Friday, 30 September

8.30 – 9.00	REGISTRATION
9.00 – 9.30	Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden, Britta Schneider Welcome
9.30 – 10.30	Barbara Johnstone The sociolinguistic city

Session I: The linguistic diversity of Berlin: origins and traditions

10.30 – 11.00	Carol Pfaff Continuity and change in patterns of language use in three generations of Turkish children and adolescents in Berlin: Empirical studies 1978-2016
11.00 – 11.30	COFFEE BREAK
11.30 – 12.00	Diana Marossek A new language practice by third generation migrants: how the use of short articles increases the self-confidence of young multicultural speakers
12.00 – 12.30	Oliver Bunk, Inès Lamari, Heike Wiese Kiezdeutsch as an urban dialect: local linguistic integration vs. societal marginalisation
12.30 – 13.00	Duygu Yassı Code-swichting as social in-group and out-group marker
13.00 –  14.30	LUNCH

Session II: Linguistic landscapes

14.30 – 15.00	Uta Papen 'Pretty', 'full of vibe' and with some 'Antischick': the discursive construction of Prenzlauer Berg between gentrification, commodification, and new lifestyles
15.00 – 15.30	Christine Domke 'Textscapes' in the city:On the functional organization of media, perception and locatedness
15.30 – 16.00	Fatih Özcan The Linguistic Landscape of Kreuzberg and Neukölln: a comparative analysis of two neighbourhoods
16.00 – 16.30	COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 17.00	Beatrix Busse, Ingo Warnke Virtual variation as part of virtual recognition – On the economy of naming practices in WiFi network names
17.00 – 18.00	Janet Fuller Linguistic landscapes and the making of an imagined community: Language commodification, transnational identities, cosmopolitan codes and glocalization
19.00	CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday, 1 October

9.00 – 10.00

Patrick Stevenson Intimate Strangers: Language stories in a Berlin Mietshaus

Session III: The Sociolinguistic Economy

10.00 – 10.30	Edith Pichler Lifestyles, milieus-languages and the economy of the Italo-Berliner
10.30 – 11.00	COFFEE BREAK
11.00 – 11.30	Maria Lidola (Un-)ma(r)king boundaries through language: Reflections on its socioeconomic, gender and ethnic dynamics among Brazilian migrants in Berlin
11.30 – 12.00	Gertrud Hüwelmeier Basarlingualism: Linguistic diversity in the Dong Xuan Center in Berlin-Lichtenberg – Anthropological perspectives
12.00 – 12.30	Miriam Stock From authentification to distinction –The multiple meanings of Arabic in Berlin’s gentrifying falafel economies
12.30 – 13.00	Philipp Krämer Spanish in Berlin – institutions and intuitions
13.00 – 14.30	LUNCH

Session IV: Local, national, post-national

14.30 – 15.00	Tanager Learning to be German: Immigration and language in Berlin
15.00 – 15.30	Esther Jahns Between accommodation and distinction: The linguistic repertoire of German-speaking Jews
15.30 – 16.00	Natalia Gagarina Language acquisition of Turkish- and Russian-speaking children in Berlin:linguistic and socio-economic factors
16.00 – 16.30	COFFEE BREAK
16.30 – 17.30	Monica Heller Language in late capitalism: local and global in post-national processes
17.30 – 18.00	Theresa Heyd, Ferdinand von Mengden, Britta Schneider Final discussion
19.00	DINNER

Sunday, 2 October

10.00

Berlin walking tour