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.