Conference Schedule

Dear colleagues,

In the context of the growing global health crisis posed by the spread of the COVID-19 (coronavirus) outbreak and the unfavorable epidemiological situation, the Programme Committee of The Second International Conference, The Synergy of Languages and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Studies,hasmade a decision to hold the conference in an online format.

Due to numerous requests, the registration deadline has been extended until July 15, 2020.

We will keep you abreast of any further changes. Should you have any questions, please visit the conference website https://events.spbu.ru/events/synergy?lang=Eng

The Second International Conference, The Synergy of Languages and Cultures: Interdisciplinary Studies, will be held at St Petersburg University on September 25-26, 2020, at 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment, St Petersburg (Russia).

The conference is dedicated to a discussion of issues in present-day linguistics, interlingual and intercultural exchange and translation, and also research into academic and methodological approaches to the teaching of foreign languages. It will include plenary and panel papers and also workshops.

Specialists from the following fields are invited to participate: linguistics, teaching methodologies, translation studies, mass media research, sociolinguistics, literary criticism and cognitive science.

The conference will be divided into the following panels:

Panel 1: Translation, Translation Studies and Cultural Linguistics. Chair – Assoc. Prof. Svetlana Rubtsova, PhD in Philology, St Petersburg University.

Moderator – Assoc. Prof. Elena Bugreeva, PhD in Pedagogy, St Petersburg University.

Subpanel 1: Continuing Education Programmes in Translating and Interpreting and Distance Learning, Moderator - Ksenia Anisimova, Director of the School of Translation and Foreign Languages of St Petersburg University (STFL)

Panel 2: Pragmatic Issues in Translation and Management of Translation Processes. Chair – Ilia Mishchenko, Chairman, St Petersburg Regional Branch of the Union of Translators of Russia, Director of the Literra Translation Company (Russia).

Moderator – Aleksandr Ivanov, Director for Development of the Literra Translation Company (Russia).

Panel 3: Current Trends in Cognitive Linguistic Research. Chair – Prof. Aleksei Minchenkov, PhD in Philology, St Petersburg University.

Panel 4: Issues in Communication

Subpanel 1: Crisis Communications: the Impact of Words on Human Consciousness. Chair – Assoc. Prof. Mikhail Bril, PhD in Psychology, St Petersburg University

Subpanel 2: Argumentation in Media Discourse. Chair – Assoc. Prof. Vadim Golubev, PhD in Philology, St Petersburg University.

Subpanel 3. The Language of Law as a Means of Communication. Chair – Assoc. Prof. Sergei Belov, PhD in Law, Director, St Petersburg University Research Institute for the Study of the State Language, St Petersburg University

Panel 5: East-West: A Dialogue of Cultures. Chair –Tatiana Pan, PhD in History, senior researcher, Head of the Far East Department, Institute of Oriental Manuscripts.

Moderator – Asst. Prof. Aleksandr Zdanevich, PhD in History, St Petersburg University.

Panel 6: The Russian Language in the Intercultural Context. Chair – Prof. Elena Seliverstova, PhD in Philology, St Petersburg University.

Panel 7: The Peoples of the Arctic Region: The Sociolinguistic Context Today. Chair – Assoc. Prof. Nadezhda Kharlampieva, PhD in History, senior researcher, Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute.

Moderator – Assoc. Prof. Nadezhda Tyrkheeva, PhD in Pedagogy, St Petersburg University.

Panel 8: Romance Languages and Literature in a Dialogue of Cultures. Chair – Prof. Tatiana Taimanova, PhD in Philology, St Petersburg University.

Panel 9: Professional Language Pedagogy. Chair – Prof. Larisa Tarnaeva, PhD in Pedagogy, St Petersburg University.

Moderator – Asst. Prof. Elena Beliaeva, PhD in Pedagogy, St Petersburg University.

Conference Schedule

September 25, 2020 (Friday)

9:00 – 10:00 – Registration

10:00 – 10:15 – Opening Ceremony: Welcome Address, Dean of the Faculty of Foreign Languages, Svetlana Rubtsova (Conference Hall, St Petersburg University, 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment)

10:15 – 13:00 – Plenary Session (Conference Hall, St Petersburg University, 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment): Prof. Nikolai Kropachev, Doctor of Law, Rector of St Petersburg University, Associate Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

Pavel Palazhchenko, Soviet and Russian interpreter, chief English interpreter for Mikhail Gorbachev and Eduard Shevardnadze.

Prof. Merja Karppinen, Director of the Language Centre, Saimaa University of Applied Sciences (Finland).

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:00 – 18:00 – Breakout Sessions (Faculty of Philology, St Petersburg University, 11 Universitetskaya Embankment)

14:00 – 18:00 – Workshops

September 26, 2020 (Saturday)

10:00 – 13:00 – Plenary Session (Conference Hall, St Petersburg University, 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment):

Aleksandr Kozuliaev, Director General of RuFilms and Director of the School of Audiovisual Translation (Russia).

Nadezda Stojkovic, Editor-in-Chief, International Journal of Professional-Oriented English Language Teaching, University of Niš (Serbia).

Ilia Mishchenko, Chairman, St Petersburg Regional Branch of the Union of Translators of Russia, Director of the Literra Translation Company (Russia).

13:00 – 14:00 – Lunch

14:00 – 18:00 – Breakout Sessions (Faculty of Philology, St Petersburg University, 11 Universitetskaya Embankment).

14:00 – 18:00 – Workshops

18:00 – 18:30 – Closing Remarks (Conference Hall, St Petersburg University, 7-9 Universitetskaya Embankment).

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