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Multilingualism and Russia’s Ethnic Cultures through English, French, German, Russian and Other Languages
7 & 8 June, 2018, Herzen University, St. Petersburg
Multilingualism and Russia’s Ethnic Cultures through English, French, German, Russian and Other Languages
The conference is dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the St Petersburg School of Conference Interpreting and Translation, Herzen University, and will bring together leading Russian and international experts in the theory and practice of translation and interpreting, including scholars who explore how Russian culture is communicated in languages other than Russian (Russian culture-Oriented English/French/German, etc.).
Speakers
Andrey Maksimov
Chair of the Committee for Science and Higher Education, Government of St. Petersburg
François Génisson
Inter-Institutional Relations, International Cooperation & Strategy Unit, Directorate-General for Interpretation, European Commission
Programme
| # | Programme | Speakers | Time | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Registration | 08:45 - 09:25 | ||
| 2 | Opening Plenary | Sergey Bogdanov , Gennady Bordovsky , Liudmila Verbitskaya , Andrey Maksimov , Andrey Lopukhov , Vladimir Zapevalov , Shivona Tavares-Walsh , François Génisson , Yerzhan Kistafin | 9.30 – 11.30 | |
| 3 | Coffee Break | 11.30 – 12.00 | ||
| 4 | Plenary Session. Mirrors of Culture: Modern-day Optics | Irina Alexeeva , Viktor Kabakchi , Zoya Proshina | 12.00 – 13.30 | |
| 5 | Lunch | 13.30 – 14.30 | ||
| 6 | Session 1. International Languages as a Key to Understanding and Promoting Foreign Cultures | Angelique Antonova , Alexandra Rivlina , Elena Beloglazova | 14.30 – 16.00 | |
| 7 | Coffee Break | 16.00 – 16.30 | ||
| 8 | Session 2. The Phenomenon of the Russian Soul: a Step Forward | Paul Lequesne , Catriona Kelly , Catherine Perrel | 16.30 – 18.30 | |
| 9 | Session 3. The Quality of Language in Communication and in Training of Translators and Interpreters | Ildikó Horváth , Ekaterina Shutova , Birgit Menzel | 16.30 – 18.30 |
| # | Programme | Speakers | Time | |
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| 1 | Session 4. ‘Russian English’ as a Secondary Vehicle of Russians’ Cultural and Linguistic Identity | Maria Yelenevskaya , Ekaterina Lebedeva , Larissa Aronin | 9.30 – 11.00 | |
| 2 | Session 5. Russian as a Medium for Promoting Russia’s Ethnic Cultures | Yerzhan Kistafin , Natalya Chikina , Kseniya Egorova , Alina Nakhodkina | 9.30 – 11.00 | |
| 3 | Coffee Break | 11.00 – 11.30 | ||
| 4 | Session 6. Open Faces of Russian Culture | Gabriele Leupold , Rosemarie Tietze , Marina Koreneva | 11.30 – 13.00 | |
| 5 | Session 7. Facets of Russian Linguistic Identity | William Hackett-Jones , Marina Platonova , Tatiana Smirnova , Ekaterina Pokholkova | 11.30 – 13.00 | |
| 6 | Lunch | 13.00 – 14.00 | ||
| 7 | Session 8. The Russian Collection | Peter McCarey , Paul Lequesne | 14.00 – 15.00 | |
| 8 | New Technologies in Translation Training | Dirk Verbeke | 15.00 – 15.30 | |
| 9 | Coffee Break | 15.30 – 16.00 | ||
| 10 | Closing Plenary (closing remarks by session moderators) | Sergey Bogdanov , Shivona Tavares-Walsh , François Génisson , Paolo Torrigiani , Irina Alexeeva , Noel Muylle , Angelique Antonova , Viktor Kabakchi , Zoya Proshina , Maria Yelenevskaya , Kseniya Egorova , Oxana Yakimenko , Sergei Afonin , Sergey Filatov , Alexander Livergant | 16.00 – 17.00 | |
| 11 | Reception | 17.00 – 18.00 |
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