Thursday, November 26 - Saturday, November 28, 1998
Austrian Academy of Sciences, Theatersaal
A-1010 Vienna, Sonnenfelsgasse 19
 

PROGRAM
 

Thursday, November 26, 1998
	9:30 - 10:15 a.m.	Opening Werner Welzig, President of the Austrian Academy of Sciences Elisabeth GEHRER, Federal Minister for Education and Cultural Affairs Raoul Kneucker, Federal Ministry of Science and Transport
	10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Claire Kramsch, University of California - Berkeley, USA Technology, Language, and Literacy: The New Pedagogical Challenge
	11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Coffee break
	11:30 - 12:15 a.m.	Konrad Ehlich, University of Munich, Germany Graphemics/(transindividual) Graphology
	12:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Lunch break
	2:30 - 3:15 p.m.	Gunther Kress, University of London, UK From Language to Image: Literacy in the Era of the Iconic Turn
	3:15 - 4:00 p.m.	James R. Martin, University of Sydney, Australia Giving the Game Away: Explicitness, Diversity and Genre-Based Literacy in Australia
	4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee break
	4:30 - 5:15 p.m.	Hilary Janks, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa Teaching Critical Literacy in South Africa: Constructions of Literacy in the Media
	5:15 - 6:00 p.m.	Ingrid Gogolin, University of Hamburg, Germany "Heteroglossic Literacy" - Gain of Communication in the Information Age
Friday, November 27, 1998
	9:30 - 10:15 a.m.	Lachman M. Khubchandani, Poona University, India Dynamics of Literacy and Orality in Cross-Cultural Settings
	10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Wilhelm Urban, University of Innsbruck, Austria Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses of Inferior Language Performance of Young Adults - Tracing Functional Illiteracy
	11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Coffee break
	11:30 - 12:15 a.m.	Irene Bellier, Laios-CNRS, Paris, France Administrative Language and Official Communication in New Europe: How Desire for Institutional "Transparency" Coexists with Opacity
	12:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Lunch break
	2:30 - 3:15 p.m.	Helmut Vollmer, University of Osnabrück, Germany Critical Intercultural Literacy
	3:15 - 4:00 p.m.	Jennifer Gore, University of Newcastle, Australia Implications of Power and Pedagogy for the Development of Literacy
	4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee break
	4:30 - 5:15 p.m.	Albert Tuijnman, Stockholm University, Sweden Low Adult Literacy: Not a Marginal Issue in Industrialised Countries
	5:15 - 6:00 p.m.	Coffee break
	6:00 - 8:00 p.m.	Panel Discussion Eleonora HOSTASCH, Federal Minister for Labour, Health and Social Affairs Clemens Jabloner, President of the Administrative Court Raoul Kneucker, Federal Ministry of Science and Transport Claire Kramsch, University of California - Berkeley, USA Hans-Jürgen Krumm, University of Vienna Franz Schimek, Vienna Board of Education - European Office Ruth Wodak, University of Vienna Moderator: Manfred Jochum, ORF
Saturday, November 28, 1998
	9:30 - 10:15 a.m.	Patricia Corson, Ryerson Polytechnic University Toronto, Canada Laying Foundations for Literacy: Anti-Bias Education in Early Childhood
	10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Dietmar Larcher, University of Klagenfurt, Austria How to Become Illiterate without Really Trying. Some Discouraging  Remarks on the Efficiency of Bilingual Instruction
	10:15 - 11:00 a.m.	Dietmar Larcher, University of Klagenfurt, Austria How to Become Illiterate without Really Trying. Some Discouraging  Remarks on the Efficiency of Bilingual Instruction
	11:00 - 11:30 a.m.	Coffee break
	11:30 - 12:15 a.m.	Hans H. Reich, University Koblenz-Landau, Germany Language Minorities and Minorisation of Languages in the Information Age
	12:15 - 2:30 p.m.	Lunch break
	2:30 - 3:15 p.m.	David Corson, University of Toronto, Canada Critical Literacy for Active Citizenship
	3:15 - 4:00 p.m.	John Baugh, Stanford University, USA American Parallels: Racial Conflict and the Ebonics Controversy:  Ethnolinguistic Conflict and the Quest for Educational Enhancement
	4:00 - 4:30 p.m.	Coffee break
	4:30 - 5:15 p.m.	Bessie Dendrinos, University of Athens, Greece Developing Alternative Modes of Foreign Language Literacy in the European Union
	5:15 - 6:00 p.m.	Margit Böck, University of Vienna, Austria Everyday Communication in the Information Society: Tendencies of  Communicative Change in Austria

Simultaneous translation English/German, German/English
 

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