Dr Tomasz Kamusella

Dr Tomasz Kamusella

List of Invited and Conference Lectures

Invited Lectures

5 Feb 2012 / The Politics of Identity and Script in Modern Europe: From Many to Few, European Studies Lecture Series, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland.
3 Aug 2011 / Language and Borders in the Balkans, Second GCOE Summer School Program “Eurasia Border Review: From Northeast Asia to Middle East,” Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
15 Jul 2011 / The Silesian Language Today: History and Development, Prof M Nomachi’s Course in the History of the Slavic Languages, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
9 Jul 2011 / Langauge and Nationalism in the History of Modern Central Europe, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European History,’ financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
8 Jul 2011 / The Cultural and Social History of the Silesian Language, Inaugural Seminar, Project ‘Language and Society in Modern and Contemporary European History,’ financed by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, held at Ayoma Gakuin University, Tokyo, Japan.
13 Apr 2010 / The Politics of Language in Modern Central Europe, Department of European Studies, Cracow university of Economics, Cracow, Poland.
4 Feb 2010 / Languages, Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Research Seminar, School of Linguistics, Speech and Communication Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
19 Dec 2009 / The Changing Lattice of Languages, Borders and Identities in Silesia, Start-up Conference, Global Center of Excellence Program, Reshaping Japan’s Border Studies, Slavic Research Center, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
16 Dec 2009 / Upper Silesia, Borders and Languages in the Twentieth Century, Japan Society of West Slavic Studies, Tokyo, Japan.
10 Dec 2009 / Language and Politics in Postcommunist Europe, Eastern Europe after 1989: The 7th Lewis Glucksman Memorial Symposium, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
5 Nov 2009 / A Steel Hand in a Kid Glove: Language in Modern Central Europe, Long Room Hub, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
17 Oct 2009 / What We Know and What We Do Not Know on Germanization and Russification on the Partitioned Lands of the Former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in the 19th c, POSK’s Evening of History, Polish House, POSK, Dublin, Ireland.
13 Jul 2009 / How to Enrich the Silesian Language, Conference on the Regional Language of Silesia, MP Office of Marek Plura and the Regional Authority of Silesia, Katowice, Poland.
6 May 2009 / A Remark on the Questions on One’s Nationality/Ethnicity and Language to be Included in the Polish 2011 Census, Workshop on the Ethnic Questions in the Polish 2011 Census, Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland Warsaw.
2 – 4 Apr 2009 / Plenary lecture Classifying the Slavic Languages, or Politics of Classification?, Conference on Language and History, Linguistics and Historiography, Historical Sociolinguistics Network (supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council), University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
13 Feb 2009 / The Malleability of Ethnicity in Poland’s Upper Silesia: From One Language to Three Identities, MPhil in Ethnic and Racial Studies Program in association with the Migrant Networks Project (Trinity Immigration Initiative), Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
9 Feb 2009 / Politics and the Malleability of Identity: The Dynamics of Ethnic Cleansing of the Population Categorized as ‘Germans’ in Poland, 1948-1991, International Politics and Ethnic Conflict Seminar, School of Politics, International Studies and Philosophy, Queen’s University, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK.
6 Feb 2009 / The Rise of Linguistics Nation-States in Europe in the Twentieth Centure: language and Statehood Legitimization, Research Seminar in Modern European History, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
29 Jan 2009 / The Practical and Financial Aspects of Literary Translation, and Court and Free Lance Translation and Interpretation, MPhil in Literary Translation Program, School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
20 Nov 2008 / Stalinism in Poland, Center for European Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
13 – 14 Nov 2008 / Commemorating Amnesia: The Case of the Generalized 60th Anniversaries of Almost Everything in Poland’s Region of Opole in 2005, Conference Does the Past Matter? Renegotiating the Past, Communal Identity, and Multicultural Europe, Moor Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland.
22 Oct 2008 / The Fall of Communism in Poland in 1989, Conference 1989! Twenty Years Since: Eyewitnesses and Scholars on the Velvet Revolutions and the European Idea, Centre for the Study of Wider Europe, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland.
3 – 4 October 2008 / Keynote speech Immigrants, Migrants, or New Irish?, Interdisciplinary Conference Irish-Polish Encounters in the Old and New Europe, Mary Immaculate College, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
11 – 13 Sept 2008 / Regional Policy and Multilingualism in Central Europe, Conference Language Policy and the Regions in Europe, Partnership for Diversity Conference Series, organized in Gdańsk, Poland by the European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages (Dublin, Ireland), the Kashubian-Pomeranian Association (Gdańsk, Poland), and the Marshal’s Office of the Pomeranian Voivodeship (Gdańsk, Poland).
30 Jun 2008 / Keynote speech Is Silesian a Language? A Sociolinguistic View, Conference on Silesian: Is It Still a Dialect or Already a Language?, organized in Katowice, Poland by the Regional Authory of the Region of Silesia and the Institute of Polish Language and Culture, University of Silesia, Katowice.
18 Feb 2008 / Linguists and Politicians: The Isomorphism of Language, Nation and State in Central and Eastern Europe, Research Seminar, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
31 Jan 2008 / Upper Silesia: From the Age of Multiethnic Empires to the Era of Nation-States, Department of History, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
6 Sept 2007 / The Rhetoric and Reality of Minority Rights Protection in Poland’s Upper Silesia After 1989 (in Polish), 9th Annual International Summer School ‘National Minorities in Europe: Today and Tomorrow,’ organized in Opole, Poland, Berlin and Strasbourg by the European House and the Regional Self-Governmental Authority in Opole, Poland, and the Centre international de formation européenne, Nice.
10 Apr 2007 / The Origins and Dynamics of Multiculturalism in the Polish Region of Upper Silesia, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College, University of Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
29 Mar 2007 / Ethnic and National Groups in Silesia in the Past and Today (in Polish), Institute of Sociology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
22 Feb 2007 / On the Significance of the Nonnational in the Age of Nationalisms (in Polish), Doctoral Seminar in 20th-Century History, Institute of History, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland.
1 Feb 2006 / Imagination and Politics in the Classification of the Slavic Languages, Center for Russian and Eastern European Studies, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom.
6 Jan 2006 / The Normative Isomorphism of Language, Nation, and State: The Case of Central Europe, 120th Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, theme: ‘Nations, Nationalism, and National Histories,’ Philadelphia PA, US.
14 Sept 2005 / Politics, Nationalism, and Imagination in the Classification of the Slavic Languages, Institute of Human Sciences (IWM), Vienna, Austria
3 Jun 2004 / The Concept of ‘a Language’: Philologists in the Service of Politics, John W Kluge Center, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US.
3 May 2004 / Poland on Its Way to the European Union: Advantages, Discontents and Away from Central to Western Europe, Center for Russian and East European Studies, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS, US.
21 Apr 2004 / Polish or Silesian?: Upper Silesia in Contemporary Europe. A Challenge for the EU?, Polish Studies Program, Central Connecticut State University, New Britain CT, US
11 Feb 2004 / European Integration as Seen from the Perspective of a Polish Region: An Insider’s View, Polish Table, European Reading Room, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US
28 Aug – 11 Sept 2003 / Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the enlarged European Union, International Summer School on Enlargement and Deepening of the European Union and European Security, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland, and NATO and the European Commission, Brussels, Belgium and Berlin, Germany.
28 Jul – 10 Aug 2003 / Series of lectures on the theory of nationalism and nationalism in the post-Soviet and postcommunist states, HESP Regional Summer School for Excellence in Teaching on Developing Teaching and Academic Excellence in Political Science, Yerevan State University, Yerevan, Armenia.
7 Mar 2003 / Keynote address On the Similarity Between the Concepts of Nation and Language: A View from Central Europe, which commenced the second Graduate Students Conference on Building Bridges and Putting Up Walls, Department of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
5 Mar 2003 / The Szlonzoks: Who Are They?, Center for Austrian and Central European Studies, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
30 Jul – 25 Aug 2002 / Series of lectures on nationalism, language and ethnicity (in Russian), Summer School on Ethnonationalism, Sociological Research Organization TAMISS and the Technical University, Dushanbe, Tajikistan.
29 Jan 2002 / How European Are European Studies? An Insider’s View, workshop Teaching European Studies, organized in Odesa, Ukraine, by the Center for International Studies, Institute of Social Sciences, Odesa National University and the Civic Education Project, Budapest, Hungary/New Haven, NJ, US.
20 Oct 2001 / Should the European Union Establish Its Own Military Forces Independent of NATO? (in Polish), EU Debate: Pros and Cons, House of Polish-German Cooperation, Gliwice, Poland.
16 Jun – 1 Jul 2001 / Series of lectures on language, nationalism, and power, Summer Sociology Summer School in Civic Education and Public Orientation, organized by the Open Society Institute-Tajikistan and the Tajikistan Institute of Management in Kayrakkum near Khujand, Tajikistan.
6 Mar 2000 / European Integration at the Regional Level as Exemplified by the Case of Opole Silesia, guest lectures series, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, University of Opole, Opole, Poland.
12 Mar 1999 / EU Citizenship of Different Standards in Upper Silesia, guest lectures series (Dis-)Integrating Europe, organized by the Civic Education Project, New York, USA, at the Department of Economics, Wrocław University, Wrocław, Poland.
14 – 18 Feb 1997 / Series of lectures on history and practice of European integration with the focus on the Polish-EU relationship for civil servants, Regional Authority, Opole, Poland.
9 Dec 1994 / European Integration and Entrepreneurship in Postcommunist Central Europe, Opole Business Center Club meeting, Górażdże Cement Works, Górażdże, Poland.
19 Aug 1991 / The ideology of communism as contextualized against the background of the post-apartheid situation in South Africa and the post-communist developments in Central and Eastern Europe, The Natal Technikon, Durban, South Africa.
15 May & 17 Jul 1991 / The Reality of the Communist System in the Soviet Bloc, Department of English, University of Potchefstroom, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

Participation in conferences, workshops, study visits (lectures delvered marked in bold)

20 Oct 20111 / Scripts and Politics in Modern Central Europe, Symposium on Language and Identity, Coimbra Group of Universities, Graduate School of Linguistics, Philosophy and Semiotics, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
12 Mar 2011 / Minority Rights a la Carte? Poland and the Silesians, conference From Norm Adoption to Norm Implementation: Minority and Human Rights Revisited, European Center for Minority Issues, Flensburg, Germany.
10 – 11 Dec 2010 / Migration or Immigration?: The Polish-Language Community in Ireland After 2004, Conference on Slavic Languages in Migration, Institut für Slavistik, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
4 Sept 2009 / Expert Opinion, Conference on the Project ‘Sociological Research on Poland’s German Minority,’ House of Polish-German Cooperation, Opole, Poland; co-organized by Tokai University, Sapporo, Japan and Osaka University, Osaka, Japan.
28 Nov 2008 / On the invitation of Ambassador Borys Bazylevskyi, participated in the round table on the Holodomor (‘Hunger Plague’) in Ukraine, 1932-1933, Embassy of Ukraine, Dublin, Ireland.
25 – 27 Sept 2008 / School Atlases of History and Ethnolinguistic Nationalism, Interdisciplinary Conference on the World and Times of Maps: Mapping Eastern Europe, 2nd Conference of the Forum Ostmittel- und Südosteuropa (FOSE), Schweizerische Osteuropabibliothek, Bern, Switzerland.
30 – 31 May 2008 / Between Ethnic Cleansing and Emigration: Aussiedlers Leaving Poland’s Upper Silesia for Germany, 1950-1991, Annual Symposium of the Society for Exile Research, Centre for Irish-German Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
23 May 2008 / Conference Irish Historic Towns Atlas, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
9 – 10 May 2008 / Central and Eastern European Studies Annual Conference 70 Years After: The Impact of Munich 1938 on Central and Eastern Europe, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland.
26-27 Oct 2007 / Multilingualism and Language Use in the Urban Areas of Upper Silesia during the 19th and 20th Centuries, Conference: Lieux communs de la multiculturalité dans les villes centre-européennes (fin XIXe siècle-début XXIe siècle), CIRCE (Centre Interdisciplinaire de Recherches Centre-Européennes), Université Paris IV Sorbonne, Paris, France.
12 – 14 Sept 2007 / The Silesians Do Not Exist: The Official ‘Non-Existence of Contemporary Poland’s Demographically Largest National Minority (in Polish), 13th Polish Sociological Congress, University of Zielona Góra, Zielona Góra, Poland.
21 – 24 Jun 2007 / Nationalisms and the Changing Perceptions of Silesian During the 19th and 20th Centuries, Conference National ‘Languages’ through Historians’ Eyes, New Europe College, Bucharest, Romania.
7 – 10 Jun 2007 / Poland: The Reluctant Shift from a Closed Ethnolinguistically Homogenous National Community to a Multicultural Open Society, Conference Dynamics of National Identity and Transnational Identities in the Process of European Integration, organized within the framework of the Jean Monnet Action – Support for Study and Research Centres 2006 (program of the European Commission), by the Balkan Ethnology Department of Ethnographic Institute and Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria.
17 Nov 2006 / (by a proxy reader) The Political Expediency of Language-Making in Central Europe: The Case of Czechoslovak, Panel: Negotiating Languages: The Struggle with Linguistic and Cultural Boundaries in Modern Central Europe, 38th National Convention of the AAASS, Washington DC, US.
19 Jun 2006 / Conference Minorities in Europe: The Practical Application of the Act on National and Ethnic Minorities, and the Regional Language in Poland, organized by the European House at the University of Opole, Opole, Poland.