FIPLV World Congress 2006/LMS Sprĺkdagar
in Göteborg Sweden 15-17 June

Opening ceremony at Göteborg Concert Hall


Jörgen Linder, Mayor of Göteborg

Cecilia Malmström, member of the European Parliament - from October the Swedish EU Minister 

Ann Englund, President of LMS, Sweden

Denis Cunningham, President of FIPLV

Peter Olsson, Vice President of Chalmers

The Organizing Committee: Margareta Leoj and Inger Odenstedt

 

Bernhard Greter: grand piano
Mats Eliasson: trumpet

Martin Bagge, musician singing and playing Bellman

Kathleen Bailey, Keynote Speaker
Teachers and Reflective Teaching


Paul Westlake, Raili Hildén, Leena Vaurio, Kirsti Santaholma at Götaplatsen, Göteborg


To the left Ann Englund, president of LMS Sweden

Lectures and Workshops at Chalmers University of Technology


Venue: Chalmers Conference Centre

Leena and Kirsti in front of Chalmers

Participants during a break

David Crystal
Diversity? We ain't seen nothin' yet!
Plenary session Friday morning

Pierre Bédérčde, one of the lecturers arriving from Paris at Landvetter airport

Cecilia Odé, the Netherlands
Editor of FIPLV Publications

Jan Robertson, New Zealand
FIPLV Treasurer-General

Jan Robertson presents New Zealand literature

Susan Brokensha, Free State, South Africa

Olga Medvedeva, Lithuania

Denis Cunningham, Australia
President of FIPLV

Raija Airio, Finland
President of SUKOL Finland

Some of the members of the FIPLV Executive and other participants. Prof. Crystal to the right

the exhibition

David Crystal, Inger and Sven Odenstedt during a break

Reception at Göteborg Museum of Modern Art

 
 
Eynar Leupold, Gudrun Tulinius and Marie Françoise Vignaud

Kathleen Bailey and Inger Odenstedt
 

Conference dinner

 


Jomare, a music group of students from Elof Lindälvs gymnasium, Kungsbacka, entertained us at the  cocktail party

Margareta and Denis talking

Terry Lamb, UK, next President  of FIPLV (from 2007)

 

Denis and David with ladies



The 2006 FIPLV award:
Diana Rumpite, Raili Hildén and Leena Vaurio


FIPLV Assembly outside Humanisten, Göteborg University

Bengt Henningson chairs the voting procedure for the new executive

Austrian writer Jutta Treiber departuring from Landvetter airport - here with Inger Odenstedt
 
Behind the camera, yours truly ...
FIPLV webmaster
(Marie Blomkvist)