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Friday 4 May
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Enthusiasm: Revolution, Culture, Migration
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5-6.30pm, Screening Room, University of Edinburgh, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH
Free. REGISTRATION LINK In 1869, Welsh industrialist John Hughes founded the mining town of Donetsk in Eastern Ukraine, initiating a wave of migration from South Wales to Eastern Europe. 1917 and the approaching Russian Revolution saw the hasty exit of the industrialists who had followed Hughes, fearful of the revolutionary ferment.100 years later, in the present day, Ukraine and Donbas are once again at the centre of a violent conflict that has led to the internal displacement of over a million people. "Enthusiasm" brings to life some of the elements of this fascinating and timely story. Project leaders Dr Victoria Donovan (Dept of Russian, University of St Andrews) and Stefhan Caddick will be joined by composer Simon Gore to present "Enthusiasm" via music, image and discussion. The event is organised by the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre. |
Stefhan Caddick is and artist based in South Wales who works across a range of disciplines including archive film, installation and performance. Much of his work is socially engaged and often takes place in the dark. Stefhan has shown extensively across the UK and internationally. Recent projects include Noctule for Green Man festival and Ebbwferric, a research project funded by the Arts Council of Wales. http://stefhancaddick.co.uk.
Victoria Donovan is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews whose research activities contribute to several interlocking fields of scholarship, including identity politics, cultural memory, heritage studies, and cross-border cultural studies in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Simon Gore is a composer and experimental musician based in Oslo and the Welsh borders. Simon graduated from Creative Sound and Music at the University of South Wales in 2016 and is preparing to release his debut solo EP, with accompanying photographic book, En Ti in October.
Images courtesy Glamorgan Archives. Ref: HRA/DX409.
Victoria Donovan is a Lecturer in Russian at the University of St Andrews whose research activities contribute to several interlocking fields of scholarship, including identity politics, cultural memory, heritage studies, and cross-border cultural studies in the Soviet Union and Russia.
Simon Gore is a composer and experimental musician based in Oslo and the Welsh borders. Simon graduated from Creative Sound and Music at the University of South Wales in 2016 and is preparing to release his debut solo EP, with accompanying photographic book, En Ti in October.
Images courtesy Glamorgan Archives. Ref: HRA/DX409.
Tuesday 17 May
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Annual Honorary Dashkova Lecture: Aneta Pavlenko5.15-6.30pm, Project Room, 1.06, 50 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LH
REGISTRATION LINK The event is organised by the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre. |
A dramatic increase in the numbers of international migrants, experienced in London and other Western European capitals, has given rise to the sociolinguistics of superdiversity that brands itself as a new global approach for the new age of “mobility, complexity and unpredictability” (Blommaert, 2013, p. 6). Yet the diversification of existing diversity, observed in modern-day societies, is far from being a novel phenomenon and its linguistic consequences for host societies are both predictable and banal (Pavlenko, 2018).
The purpose of this talk is to discuss a society that did something truly unpredictable from the point of view of multilingualism. Backtracking past Catherine II and Peter I, I will start with the third ruler often labelled the Great, Ivan III (1462-1505), and use a variety of published and archival data to trace the metamorphosis of Muscovy from the land where foreign visitors had to master Russian to the place where the hosts learned the tongues of their immigrants and prisoners of war.
Blommaert, J. (2013). Ethnography, superdiversity, and linguistic landscapes: Chronicles of complexity. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Pavlenko, A. (2018, in press) Superdiversity and why it isn’t. In Breidbach, S., Kuster, L. & B. Schmenk (eds.) Sloganization in language education discourses. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is a Research Professor at the Center for Multilingualism at the University of Oslo. Her work examines the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and emotions. She has lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia and has authored more than a hundred articles and ten books, the most recent of which is The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award and the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.
The purpose of this talk is to discuss a society that did something truly unpredictable from the point of view of multilingualism. Backtracking past Catherine II and Peter I, I will start with the third ruler often labelled the Great, Ivan III (1462-1505), and use a variety of published and archival data to trace the metamorphosis of Muscovy from the land where foreign visitors had to master Russian to the place where the hosts learned the tongues of their immigrants and prisoners of war.
Blommaert, J. (2013). Ethnography, superdiversity, and linguistic landscapes: Chronicles of complexity. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Pavlenko, A. (2018, in press) Superdiversity and why it isn’t. In Breidbach, S., Kuster, L. & B. Schmenk (eds.) Sloganization in language education discourses. Bristol: Multilingual Matters.
Dr. Aneta Pavlenko is a Research Professor at the Center for Multilingualism at the University of Oslo. Her work examines the relationship between multilingualism, cognition, and emotions. She has lectured widely in North America, Europe and Asia and has authored more than a hundred articles and ten books, the most recent of which is The bilingual mind and what it tells us about language and thought (Cambridge University Press, 2014). She is Past President of the American Association for Applied Linguistics and winner of the 2006 BAAL Book of the Year award and the 2009 TESOL Award for Distinguished Research.
Thursdays 19 April - 17 May
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Russia literature courses from Edinburgh University Open Learning - TERM 3TERM 3 - War and Peace: A Study of the Great Russian Epic Elena Moore | Term 3, Thursdays, 19 Apr – 17 May 2018, 4:10pm – 6:00pm Non-credit | 5 Weeks | £61 | Paterson’s Land Explore Tolstoy’s great epic. War and Peace offers an incredible opportunity to investigate society during the Napoleonic War era in Russia. |
