Dashkova Centre

Conferences

The Dashkova Centre has hosted a number of international conferences promoting research on Russian language and culture.

Londongrad and Londongradians: Identities, Imaginaries, and Cultural Practices of Russians in the UK

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Podcasts from the Londongrad workshop, organised within the AHRC-funded, Edinburgh University based project ‘Global Russians: Transnational Russophone Networks in the UK’. (PI: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke).

The Global Russian: International Travel as Cultural and Linguistic Practices

Panoramic shot of the Allegoria Sacra art installation
On 26-27 November 2015 the Dashkova centre hosted an International Workshop "The Global Russian: International Travel as Cultural and Linguistic Practices".

The writer as a 'language laboratory'

The writer as a language laboratory
A symposium bringing together scholars of literary and socio-cultural linguistics, Russian writers and promoters of linguistic culture.

Global Russian podcasts

Global Russian
On 24-25 January 2013 the Dashkova Centre hosted a conference on Global Russian.

Putin's Russia? A Mid-Election Round Table

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Chaired by the Dashkova Centre's Deputy Director, Dr Luke March, this podcast examines different themes surrounding the 2012 Russian elections.