Conference Schedule
The Annual Kurultai of the Endangered Cultural Heritage - AKECH 2019 (2nd edition): Indigenous People: Stories, Cultures, Languages
20-23 June, 2019
Venue: Hotel Megalos, Bd. Mamaia 155, Constanța, Romania
WEDNESDAY, June 19th
15:00 – 20:00 – Check-in (campus) & Registration
THURSDAY, July 20th
10:00 - Ice breaker: In the Footsteps of Ovid – Town Walk (Gathering: In front of Ibis Hotel)
11:00 - Laying flowers at Eminescu’s statue; Poetry reading
The Great Mosque, Laying flowers at Ovid‘s statue, the Synagogue, Hunkar Mosque, the Greek Mosque
13:00 - Welcome Lunch (Ibis Hotel)
FRIDAY, June 21st
Hotel Megalos
9:00 – Opening & Greetings
9:30 - Break
9:40 - AKECH - Section A: Seminar meetings
11:00 – Coffee break
11:20 – ALECLA - Section A: Seminar meetings
13:00 – Working lunch
14:00 - Guest speech: Prof. Dr. Kurmanbek Abdyldaev, Rector of Issyk-Kul State University K. Tynystanov, Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
15:00 – Laying Flowers on the Alley of Poets (Rendering homage to the Tatar poets in Dobrudja: poet Memet Niyaziy who mourned to death for his language and fatherland, poet Shewkiy Bektore who spent 24 years in Stalin’s gulags in Central Asia and Siberia, and poet Negip Hagi Fazîl who was tortured to death by Securitate/Romanian KGB);
17:00 - Book launch at the statue of poet Memet Niyaziy in Medgidia: „I Live on Tatarstan Street“ by Taner Murat
SATURDAY, June 22nd
Hotel Megalos
9:00 – AKECH - Section B: Seminar meetings
10:20 – Coffee break
10:40 - Guest speech: Senior Lecturer Dr. Alan Libert, Newcastle University, NSW, Australia: "Two Types of Polyfunctionality (and their Relevance for Endangered Languages)"
11:20 – AKECH - Section C: Seminar meetings
13:20 – Working lunch
14:00 - Guest speech: Prof. Dr. Kurmanbek Abdyldaev, Rector of Issyk-Kul State University K. Tynystanov, Karakol, Kyrgyzstan
15:00 – Break
19:30 - 22:00 - Swan Lake (Ballet show on the Siutghiol Lake, town of Ovid)
SUNDAY, June 23rd
8:00 – 12:00 - Departure