Keynote Speakers
Professor Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg U, Germany)
Jadranka Gvozdanović is a linguist specializing in historical and comparative linguistics. She is Professor of Slavic Linguistics at Heidelberg University, member of the steering committee of the inter-university College for Central European Studies, corresponding member of the Croatian Academy of Arts and Sciences, member of the Executive Committee of the International Society for Historical Linguistics, and Chair of the LERU policy group on equality, diversity and inclusion. Her research focuses on change processes, on how and why change begins and which factors contribute to its adoption, modification or abandonement. This research is strongly empirically based and takes into account typological and sociocultural considerations. In addition, as part of the Heidelberg research group on language critique, she also focuses on language norms, standardization processes and ideologies. Jadranka Gvozdanović published three single-authored and six edited books as well as more than a hundred articles. In 2020 she was guest editor of the Journal for Historical Linguistics.
Professor Magdalena Danielewicz (U of Warsaw, Poland)
Magdalena Danielewicz earned her M.A. (1985) and Ph.D. (1995) degrees from the University of Warsaw. In 1991–1993, she conducted research and lectured on the Polish language and culture at the University of Bordeaux III, France. Currently, she is a full professor in the Department of Formal Linguistics at the University of Warsaw and its head since 2003. Dr. Danielewicz specializes in Polish, Slavic and general linguistics. In particular, she is interested in the theory of natural language, thematic-rhematic structure of language, lexical semantics and lexicography. She has authored 6 books, 3 textbooks and numerous academic articles. Her main monographs are concerned with various epistemological problems of natural language such as semantics of questions in Polish, epistemic verbs, adverbial meta-predicates and exclamative sentences. In 2004, she translated into Polish Saussure’s manuscripts discovered in 1996 and subsequently published by Gallimard as Écrits de linguistique générale (2002). Dr. Danielewicz is currently the vice-president of the Commission on the Grammatical Structure of the Slavic Languages of the International Committee of Slavists, as well as a member of the editorial staff of many linguistic journals, including Slavia. Journal for Slavonic Philology (Prague), and Issledovanija po slavjanskim jazykam (Seoul).
Professor Victor A. Friedman (U of Chicago, USA & La Trobe U, Australia)
Victor A. Friedman is Andrew W. Mellon Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and Honorary Associate at La Trobe University. He is a foreign member of the Macedonian Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Academy of Sciences of Albania, the Academy of Arts and Sciences of Kosova, and Matica Srpska. He has been awarded the "1300 Years of Bulgaria" jubilee medal, the Blaže Koneski Medal, and the Medal of Service to the Republic of Macedonia, as well as the degree of doctor honoris causa from the University of Skopje. In 2009 he received the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages’ Annual Award for Outstanding Contributions to Scholarship. In 2014 he received the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies’ Annual Award for Distinguished Contributions to Scholarship. His research has been supported by Guggenheim, Fulbright-Hays, NEH, NSF, ACLS, SSRC, IREX, American Philosophical Society, and other fellowships and focuses on all aspects of the languages of the Balkans and the Caucasus.
Professor Danko Šipka (Arizona State U, USA)
Danko Šipka is a professor of Slavic languages and the head of the Linguistic Faculty at Arizona State University. He also holds a titular professorship conferred upon him by the president of the Republic of Poland. Dr. Šipka served as a senior linguist and as a consultant to numerous language industry companies. He holds a Ph.D. in linguistics from the University of Belgrade, a Doctorate in Psychology from the Polish Academy of Sciences, and a Master’s degree in Russian from the University of Poznań. Prof. Šipka is a regular evaluator for the American Council on Education and the Department of Education. He is currently the president of the National Federation of Modern Language Teachers’ Association. Danko Šipka's research interests include lexicography, lexicology, lexical and cross-cultural linguistics. His publications encompass over 150 papers and reviews, as well as 30 books, including: Lexical conflict: Theory and practice (Cambridge University Press, 2015; paperback in 2019) and Lexical layers of identity (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Dr. Šipka has furthermore engaged in the compilation of various other monographs and bilingual dictionaries. He was a recipient of various fellowships, most notably including the Fulbright Program, the Humboldt Foundation, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Australian National University, and from Hokkaido University. In the 2021 Spring semester, he will be an István Deák Visiting Professor at Columbia University.
Professor Michael Moser, Professor Maiia Moser
Michael Moser is full professor as the Institute for Slavic Studies at the University of Vienna (Austria), at the Péter Pázmány Catholic University in Budapest and Piliscsaba (Hungary) and at the Ukrainian Free University in Munich (Germany). He is honorary Doctor of Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and honorary professor of National University “Kyiv Mohyla Academy”. Most important rewards: 2019: V. I. Vernadsky Gold Medal of the National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences “for outstanding achievements in the study of the Ukrainian language and sociolinguistics”; 2017: International Ivan Franko Prize, 2005: START award, awarded by the International Wittgenstein and START Jury on behalf of the Austrian Science Fund (FWF). Major field of interest: history of the Slavic languages, primarily Ukrainian, Polish, Russian, and Croatian. Most recent book publications: 12. “Юности честное зерцало“ 1717 г.: у истоков русского литературного языка. Wien – Münster 2020. 454 pp.; Києво-Могилянська академія в історії слов'янських мов. — Київ 2020. 58 pp.
Maiia Moser is a linguist specializing in the study of the language of politics, language management, and language politics. She holds a Ph.D in Philology from Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv and is Director of the Center for the Study of Ivan Franko’s Creative Heritage at Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine. She takes an active part in the organization of the International Ivan Franko Prize, one of the most prestigious scholarly awards in Ukraine. Her recent publications include: Genesis of the power of the word in the process of state formation: linguocognitive aspect. Chornovil’s readings: Proceedings of the VII Ukrainian Scientific Forum. Kyiv: Beskydy, 2021, pp. 56–61: The language issue as one of the determining factors in the development of national security. Strategic Panorama, 1–2, 2020. Kyiv: National Institute for Strategic Planning under the President of Ukraine, 2021, pp. 29–41.