Conference: Mapping multilingual (counter-)expertises: Scientific and political knowledge production across borders in the long twentieth century

Institute for Transnational and Spatial History, School of History, University of St Andrews, 23-24 August 2023

Organisers: Dr Guilherme Fians and Dr Bernhard Struck

Mapping multilingual counter-expertises. Conference Programme and Book of Abstracts

23 August 2023

9:30am Welcome and opening: Guilherme Fians and Bernhard Struck
10-12am Panel 1: Meeting points: international networks, multilingual congresses, and the making of scientific expertise

Marcel Koschek, Ruslan Mitrofanov

12-1pm Lunch break
1-3pm Panel 2: Multilingualism, between nationalisms and internationalisms

Bernhard Struck, Jan Surman

3-30pm Coffee break
3.30-5.30pm Panel 3: International spaces, multilingual policies

Valerij Gretchko, David Karlander/Linus Salö

 

24 August 2023

10-12am Panel 4: Which language, what expertise: intersections of knowledge production, expertise, and language fluency

Manuela Burghelea, Guilherme Fians, Racquel Lee

12-1pm Lunch break
1-3pm Panel 5: The geopolitical margins as laboratories for knowledge exchange

Bipasha Bhattacharyya, Philipp Hofeneder, Ian Merkel

3-30pm Coffee break
3.30-5.30pm Panel 6: The colonial and post-colonial as sites for multilingual education

Jessica Chandras, Diana Lemberg, David Tavárez

5.30-6pm Wrap-up session: Guilherme Fians and Bernhard Struck
7pm Dinner at Forgan’s

 

Until stated otherwise, talks and panels will take place at the New Seminar Room (second floor), and the coffee and lunch breaks will take place at the Undercroft (semi-basement). Both are located at the School of History, 71 South Street, St Andrews.