Details of past conferences, workshops and events held in Edinburgh. Londongrad and Londongradians: Identities, Imaginaries, and Cultural Practices of Russians in the UK15 - 16 June 2017This international workshop formed part of the AHRC-funded, Edinburgh University based project ‘Global Russians: Transnational Russophone Networks in the UK’. (PI: Professor Lara Ryazanova-Clarke).With a number of Russian speaking migrants reaching almost half a million, Russian diasporic and transcultural spaces and networks are making an increasingly prominent mark on the British multilingual and multicultural map. The workshop explored the imaginaries of ‘Londongrad’ – the British spaces populated and inflected by Russians, by bringing together academics, writers, journalists and actors whose work has reflected on the Russian community of ‘Londongrad’. Document Londongrad conference programme (279.74 KB / PDF) The Global Russian: International Travel as Cultural and Linguistic Practices26 - 27 November 2015The workshop, part of the LBAS (AHRC) funded research project ‘Travelling Cultures: Discourses of Russian Tourism in Scotland’, developed the Dashkova Centre’s ‘Global Russian’ research strand. It brought together scholars examining tourism from linguistic, historical and cultural perspectives, and practitioners who produce tourist discourses: writers of guidebooks, Russian TV and radio travel programme creators and Russian-speaking guides in Scotland. Document Global Russian workshop programme (172.76 KB / PDF) Giving Voice to Cultures: Practices of Russia-Britain Cross-Cultural Communication in the 21st Century12 - 13 December 2014This conference set out to explore practices of cross-cultural communication between Russia and Britain in the 21st century. It focused on the forms and systems of meaning making in a variety of cultural fields in dialogue. Document Giving Voice to Cultures Conference Programme (459.22 KB / PDF) 'Middle' and ' Creative' : Emerging Russian Social Groups in Language and Culture25 - 26 October 2013This international conference aimed to facilitate an interdisciplinary investigation of the linguistic and cultural forms, codes and practices associated with the Russian ‘creative’/‘middle class’.Conference ProgrammeMaking Things Sayable: Censorship, Violence, and Justice in Speech Practices (the USSR and present-day Russia)3 - 4 September 2013This two day international workshop took place in Stockholm on September 3 and 4, 2013 with the purpose of initiating a broader multidisciplinary international network to study new aspects in the relations between language and power in the USSR and Russia. Document Making things sayable programme (338.83 KB / PDF) In the Shadow of Global Languages15 March 2012With invited speakers from Belarus, the US and Scotland, this one-day conference examined the parallels in attitudes and policies towards language management in Belarus and Scotland. The conference was followed by a reception and dinner in the Elder Room at Old College. Document Scots-Belarus Programme (171.5 KB / DOC) Enlightened Russian31 August - 1 September 2012In partnership with the 2012 Catherine the Great Exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, which features exhibits from the collection of Russia's State Hermitage Museum in St Petersburg, this 3-day conference revolved around the socio-cultural shifts in the Russian language brought about by exposure to Enlightenment thinking. Document Enlightened Russian programme (102.92 KB / PDF) Negotiating Ideologies II: Inclusion and Exclusion in Russian Language and Culture5 October 2012Conference websiteGlobal Russian Symposium: Exploring New Research Perspectives24 - 25 January 2013The objective of the symposium was to contextualise the Russian language within the new and rapidly developing field of sociolinguistics of globalisation and to provide collectively a critical reflection on the theoretical challenges posed by Russian as a global language. Document Programme (189.5 KB / DOC) The writer as a ‘Language Laboratory’: experiment, reflection and construction of social meaning14 March 2013Participants: Roman Leibov (Tartu University), Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Edinburgh University), Mikhail Epstein (Durham and Emory Universities), Tine Roesen (Aarhus University), Maxim Krongauz (Russian State Humanitarian University), Rose France (Edinburgh University)Russian politics from below26 April 2013This one-day conference explored Russia's contemporary politics through the lens of civil society and various 'bottom-up' social movements and organisations. Document Russian politics from below (454.98 KB / PDF) Making Things Sayable: Censorship, Violence, and Justice in Speech PracticesSeptember 3 and 4, 2013This international workshop was a collaboration between UCRS, CBEES, The Princess Dashkova Russian Centre (University of Edinburgh), the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures of Stockholm University, with participation of colleagues from St. Petersburg University and Queen Mary University of London. This article was published on 2024-08-13