Russianstateuniversity for the Humanities
RussianStateUniversity for the Humanities,
January 20-21, 2011,
st. Chayanov, 15
Meeting Room of the Academic Council (floor 6)
International Academic Conference
“Russian Language Abroad”
January 20
9.30 – 10.00
Registration of participants
10.00 – 10.30
Grand opening of the conference
Plenary session. Part 1.
Moderator: ProfessorМаximA. Krongaus, Director of the Institute for Linguistics
10.30 – 11.00
ProfessorSurenT. Zolyan
RectorYerevanState Linguistic University “Brusov”, The Republic of Armenia
“On the state of the Russian language in Armenia”
11.00 – 11.30
ProfessorIrinaP. Kulmoja
Head of Department for Slavic Studies
Associate ProfessorJelisaveta-KaarinaI. Kostandi
University of Tartu, Estonia
“On the Russian language in Estonua”
11.30 – 12.00
AssociateProfessorEugeneN. Stepanov
Odessa National University, Ukraine
“Russian language in the context of sociopolitical processes in modern Ukraine”
12.00 – 12.30 Coffeebreak
12.30 – 13.00
ProfessorEkaterinaU. Protassov
University of Helsinki, Finland
“On the Russian language in Finland”
13.00 – 13.30
Doctor Marina Niznik,
Cummings Institute for Research on Russia and Eastern Europe
University of Tel Aviv, Israel
“Russian language in Israel: Problems and Prospects”
13.30 – 14.30 Lunch
Plenary session. Part2.
Moderator: DoctorIgor A. Sharonov, Dean of the Faculty for Theoretic and Applied Linguistics
14.30 – 15.00
ProfessorMariaS. Polinsky
Department for Linguistics, Harvard University, USA
“RussianLanguageinUSA”
15.00 – 15.30
Professor Monica Perotto
University of Bologna, Italy
“Two generations of Russian speakers in Italy: the conditions of preservation and loss of language”
15.30 – 16.00
Doctor Gulshan Pashayeva
Head of Foreign Policy Analysis Department
Center for Strategic Studies under the President of the Republic of Azerbaijan
“Russian language in Azerbaijan: Realities and Prospects”
16.00 – 16.30
ProfessorNursuluZ. Shaymerdenova
Director of the Center for Humanities at the Kazakhstan Multidisciplinary Institute “Parasat” (Astana)
AssociateProfessorUlzhanE. Mussabekova,
Al-FarabiKazakhNationalUniversity (Almaty)
Director of the Kazakh language and culture Center at MoscowStateLinguisticUniversity
“Russian language in the linguistic term of Kazakhstan”
16.30 – 17.30 Summary of the plenary sessions. Formulation of recommendations
18.00 Conference Dinner
Professors Hall
January 21
10.30 – 12.00 Roundtable
Moderator: ProfessorVitalyG. Kostomarov,
Academician of the RAE, the President of Pushkin State Russian Language Institute, Chief Editor of magazine “Russian Speech”
“Variation of the Russian language and its codification. Features of language planning and management today”
12.00 – 13.00 Coffee break
13.00 – 14.30 Roundtable
Moderator: Marina A. Koroleva, PhD, Deputy Chief editor of Radio station “Ekho Moskvy”
“Russian Language in the electronic media and the blogosphere: Getting through the Limits”
14.30 – 15.30 Lunch
15.30 – 16.00 Closing remarks