November 6 (online panels in zoom)
November 7 (campus and webinar)
NOVEMBER 6
10.00 Opening of the Symposium
10.15-11.45 Language in conflict and war – focus: Ukraine Abstracts
Chair: Dr. Nadiya Kiss (JLU Giessen)
Dr. Liudmyla Pidkuimukha (Justus Liebig University Giessen) Weaponizing Language: How Russia Commits Linguicide on the Occupied Territories of Ukraine
Svetlana L’nyavsky (Lund University): I am a Russian Ukrainian, but I will not learn Ukrainian just for you! Language ideological debates, linguistic vigilantism, and Internally Displaced People at the time of war
Solomija Buk, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv, Department of General Linguistics: Ukrainian for Foreigners in Russian-Ukrainian War: Changes and Challenges
13.00-14.40 Central Asia’s Complex Tapestry: Language, Education, Colonial Legacies, and Decolonial Perspectives Abstracts
Chair: Dr. Edward Lemon (Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University)
Juldyz Smagulova and Kara Fleming (College of Humanities and Education, at KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan): Shame and struggles for power: New speakers of Kazakh in Kazakhstan
Edward Lemon (Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University) and Oleg Antonov (visiting researcher at GPS and RUCARR, Malmö University; visiting researcher at Södertörn University): Academic Diplomacy: The Educational Aspects of Russian Soft Power in Tajikistan
Victoria Clement Central Asian Insights): Avoiding a Reckoning: Memory Days and History in Turkmenistan
PhD candidate Dina Kucherbayeva and Prof. Juldyz Smagulova: Language Revitalization: Challenges for Kazakh in Higher Education
14.50-16.30. Language in conflict and war – focus: North Caucasus and Turkey Abstracts
Chair: Dr. Lidia Zhigunova (Tulane University, USA)
Emre Pshigusa (U.S. State Department, English Language Fellow): The Circassian language and identity created a feeling of illegality in us” Language Ideologies, Policies, and Circassian Language Rights in Turkey
Lars Funch Hansen (Circassian Studies) The marginalisation of Circassian language through local history teaching, with cases from Krasnodar Krai including the Black Sea coast
Valeriya Minakova (Penn State): “It all starts in the family”: Placing discourses on the role of families in Circassian language preservation into a historical-political context
Merab Chukhua (Tbilisi State University and the Circassian Culture Center, Tbilisi): One case of reflecting a historical fact in language
16.40-17.40. Historical perspectives Abstracts
Chair: Dr Manana Kock Kobaidze (Malmö University)
Otari Gulbani (Central European University MA): Russian Imperial Orientalism in Svaneti: A Discursive Analysis
Sam Tarpley (Tulane University, Grad stud): Contemporary Deconstruction: Post-Soviet Monuments and the American South
NOVEMBER 7 (campus and webinar) Abstracts
Sign-up link for November 6 and 7
9.45-10.15 Registration (Niagara building, ground floor, Nordenskiöldsgatan 1)
10.15 Welcome (Niagara, 5th floor, C section, room NIC0541 (Nordenskiöldsgatan 1)
RUCARR Co-Directors Prof. Bo Petersson and Prof. Karina Vamling
10.30-11.45. Morning session
Chair: Dr. Marie Öhman, Head of the School of Arts and Communication (K3)
Giorgi Alibegashvili (State Language Department of Georgia) & Maka Tetradze. (State Language Department of Georgia & Tbilisi State University): Street Georgian – as a Reflection of functioning of the State language in Georgia
Tinatin Bolkvadze (Tbilisi State University & State Language Department): How to assess the functioning of the Russian language in Georgia (online)
13.00-14.15 Afternoon session 1
Chair: Dr Mariia Tyshchenko (Malmö University)
Nadiya Kiss (JLU Giessen): Languages at war: Language shift, contested language diversity and ambivalent enmity in Ukraine
Andrey Makarychev (University of Tartu): “Estonian Russophones: A Biopolitical Story”
14.15-14.30. Coffee break
14.30-15.45. Afternoon session 2
Chair: Prof. Karina Vamling (Malmö University)
Mariam Manjgaladze (Caucasus University): Issues of the Official Language Ecology in Contemporary Georgia
Lidia Zhigunova (Tulane University, USA): Russia’s War on Indigenous Languages: The Case of Circassian in the North Caucasus
15.50-16.20. Concluding Roundtable
Moderator: Professor Barbara Thörnquist-Plewa, Central and Eastern European Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University