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SUMMARY:Polish Britain: Multilingualism and Diaspora Community - Please se
 e abstract
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DESCRIPTION:A one-day international conference on the subject of multiling
 ualism among Polish communities in the United Kingdom and in broader conte
 xts. The conference will take place as part of Cambridge’s ‘Multilingu
 alism: Empowering Individuals\, Transforming Societies’ (MEITS) research
  project under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative.\n\nPolish is now t
 he second most commonly spoken language\, after English\, in England and W
 ales. Over a million Poles live in the United Kingdom\, and the vast major
 ity of them are multilingual and live in multilingual environments. In thi
 s conference\, we aim to present a broad view of multilingualism in a rang
 e of different contexts connected with Poles\, Polish communities\, and th
 e Polish language in Britain. We will put a diverse set of different appro
 aches into dialogue\, including perspectives from applied and theoretical 
 linguistics\, psychology\, literary studies\, language teaching\, educatio
 n\, and community activism.\n\nWe will connect the question of multilingua
 lism with broader issues of migration and multicultural society. Papers wi
 ll examine multilingualism among Poles\, but also the phenomena of non-Pol
 es learning Polish and of multilingualism among Ukrainian migrants in Pola
 nd.\n\nThe conference will be convened by *Stanley Bill*\, Lecturer in Pol
 ish Studies at Cambridge\, and *Edyta Nowosielska*\, Lector in Polish at C
 ambridge.\n\nSpeakers will include distinguished specialists from a wide v
 ariety of fields and institutional backgrounds:\n\n* *Thomas Bak*\, Univer
 sity of Edinburgh\n* *Michael Byram*\, Durham University\n* *Jan Fellerer*
 \, University of Oxford\n* *Elwira Grossman*\, University of Glasgow\n* *M
 yroslava Keryk*\, Fundacja ‘Nasz Wybór’\, Warsaw\n* *Kinga Kozminska*
 \, Birkbeck\, University of London\n* *Jakub Krupa*\, Polish Press Agency\
 , London\n* *Elżbieta Kwiatkowska*\, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński Universit
 y in Warsaw\n* *Anna Martowicz*\, Association for the Promotion of Polish 
 Language Abroad\n* *Yaron Matras*\, University of Manchester\n* *Lisa-Mari
 a Müller*\, University of Cambridge\n* *Anna Seretny*\, Jagiellonian Univ
 ersity in Kraków\n* *Zofia Wodniecka-Chlipalska*\, Jagiellonian Universit
 y in Kraków\n* *Katarzyna Zechenter*\, University College London\n\nGuest
 s are very welcome to attend the entire day or just selected sessions. We 
 will provide coffee and tea for all attendees during the coffee breaks. At
 tendees should make their own arrangements for lunch. We warmly invite all
  attendees to a wine reception at the conclusion of the conference. \nPlea
 se reserve a free ticket at https://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/polish/multilinguali
 sm.\n\nA full conference programme will be available shortly.\n\n"MEITS":h
 ttp://www.meits.org/ is a major interdisciplinary research project funded 
 under the AHRC Open World Research Initiative. Linguistic competence in mo
 re than one language – being multilingual – sits at the heart of the s
 tudy of modern languages and literatures\, distinguishing it from cognate 
 disciplines. Through six interlocking research strands we investigate how 
 the insights gained from stepping outside a single language\, culture and 
 mode of thought are vital to individuals and societies.​ 
LOCATION:William Mong Hall\, Sidney Sussex College
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