A workshop co-organised by The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, University of Edinburgh and CRCEES will be held on 24-25 January 2013.

Date: 24-25 January 2013
Location: The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre, University of Edinburgh
Registration deadline: 1 January 2013 - Global Russian Workshop Registration Form [Word]

The objective of the workshop is to contextualise the Russian language within the new and rapidly developing field of sociolinguistics of globalisation and collectively to provide a critical reflection on the theoretical challenges posed by Russian as a global language.

Some discussion questions and themes

• To what extent may the existing postcolonial/globalisation paradigms be used to critique global Russian?
• The Russian language as a disintegrative and an integrative factor in societies and communities outside Russia
• Global trends as facilitators for the use of Russian
• New networks and domains of use for global Russian
• Russia’s claim to ownership of global Russian
• Pluricentricity of Russian
• The Russophone Internet across the world
• New cultural and social indexicalities emerging in the contexts of global Russian
• The historical aspects of global Russian

The format of the workshop will include 20-minute papers given by the participants and a brainstorming session on the theoretical issues and research perspectives of Global Russian.

Expected participants

• Vladimir Alpatov, Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences
• Ammon Chensky, Glasgow University
• Matthew Ciscel, Central Connecticut State University
• Polina Kliuchnikova , Durham University
• Ekaterina Protassova, Helsinki University
• Lara Ryazanova-Clarke, University of Edinburgh
• Vlad Strukov, Leeds University
• Robert Saunders, SUNY Farmingdale State College
• Aldona Judina, University of Edinburgh
• Dirk Uffelmann, Passau University
• Vera Zvereva, RGGU, Moscow

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First published: 24 January 2013