Urban Multilingualism in Contemporary Moscow and Dushanbe

Comprised of four twenty-minute presentations, the workshop will be opened by Julia Mazurova (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), who will explore the notion of Moscow’s urban multilingualism, followed by Polina Kliuchnikova’s (University of Durham) presentation about the Russian language provision in Dushanbe as well as by Denis Zubalov’s (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) paper examining language policies in Moscow, and concluded by Marina Raskladkina (Institute of Linguistics, Russian Academy of Sciences), who will elucidate educational experiences of migrant children at Moscow’s schools. The workshop will be summarised with a general discussion, chaired by Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (University of Edinburgh), followed by a wine reception.

The event is free and open to all.

A collaboration between the ‘Multilingual Moscow’ project (Higher School of Economics), the OWRI ‘Cross-Language Dynamics: Reshaping Community’ Projects at the Universities of Edinburgh and Durham, and the Princess Dashkova Russian Centre (The University of Edinburgh).

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