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SUMMARY:Engaging Multilinguality: Language\, Identity and National Cohesio
 n in Ukraine - Speaker to be confirmed
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CONTACT:Dr R E Finnin
DESCRIPTION:Academic discussions about language politics in Ukraine tend t
 o centre on questions of linguistic space rather than linguistic subject 
 – on the multilingualism of Ukrainian territory rather than the ‘multi
 linguality’ of a Ukrainian citizen. This predominant approach often invi
 tes tired exchanges about Ukrainophone-Russophone\, west-east regional div
 isions\, which the Maidan Revolution and the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian arm
 ed conflict have urgently called into question.\n\nOn *19 October 2018*\, 
 the project Multilingualism: Empowering Individuals\, Transforming Societi
 es (MEITS)\, which is funded by a grant from the UK Arts and Humanities Re
 search Council\, is partnering with Cambridge Ukrainian Studies to direct 
 more attention to the position of the multilingual subject in Ukrainian so
 ciety – past\, present and future.\n\nAt an international conference in 
 *Trinity College\, Cambridge*\, a group of leading scholars across the dis
 ciplines of the humanities and social sciences will consider such question
 s as:\n* How does our understanding of Ukraine change when we frame the ev
 olution of the modern Ukrainian national project as\, among other things\,
  a story of individuals becoming multilingual? As a story of scholars docu
 menting the language of the peasantry\, of poets learning the dominant lan
 guage of empire\, of national minorities mastering the state language\, of
  politicians acquiring the lingua franca of a globalising economy?\n* How 
 have multilingual subjects been represented in Ukrainian cultural and poli
 tical discourse since the eighteenth century?\n* To what extent and in wha
 t ways\, if at all\, can such disparate events as the Valuev Circular\, th
 e Ukrainian People’s Republic\, the early Soviet ‘Executed Renaissance
 ’\, and the current war in eastern Ukraine be considered functions of th
 e presence or absence of multilinguality in Ukraine?\n* Is language divers
 ity better understood as a benefit or an obstacle to state- and nation-bui
 lding in Ukraine?\n\nFeatured speakers include *Timofey Agarin\, Laada Bil
 aniuk\, Olenka Bilash\, Vitaly Chernetsky\, Taras Koznarsky\, Natalia Kudr
 iavtseva\, Volodymyr Kulyk\, Myroslav Shkandrij and Alina Zubkovych*.\n
LOCATION:The Winstanley Lecture Theatre\, Trinity College\, Cambridge
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