Talks
September 2017 | “Belonging multiply in the Southern Caucasus – the case of Georgia’s Greek community” Deutscher Orientalistentag, Jena. |
July 2017 | “Laughter, hyperbole and ‘funny stories’ – using humor in positioning Georgia’s Greek community” 15. International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast, Northern Ireland. |
February 2017 | “Viadrina Open Lecture Series (VOLS)”, 2. Arbeitstreffen der Gesellschaft für Angewandte Linguistik “Forschungsfokus Geflüchtete”. Darmstadt. With Janett Haid. |
October 2016 | "Speaking about language varietis in Georgia's Greek community" International Conference on Endangered Languages. Tbilisi, Georgia. |
September 2016 | "Being 'European' in the Southern Caucasus - Greeks in Georgia between identification and alteration", Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders. Athens, Greece. |
September 2016 | "Constructing 'Europe' from the margins - the view of Soviet Greek immigrants to Greece", Europe in Discourse: Identity, Diversity, Borders. Athens, Greece. With Ekaterine Kartvelishvili. |
February 2016 | "The end of the Soviet Union as a 'turning point': Challenges to self-identification faced by Georgia's Greek community", Free University, Tbilisi, Georgia. (invited) |
February 2016 | "Tracing the impact of socio-political transformations in the Greek community of Georgia" The Impact of Socio-Political Transformations on Language and Identity. Tbilisi, Georgia |
July 2015 | "Positioning the self in talk about groups: Linguistic means used by members of the multilingual Georgian Greek community", 14. International Pragmatics Conference, Antwerp, Belgium. |
April 2015 | "Negotiating language competence and belonging – Standard Modern Greek in the multilingual Greek community of Georgia", Politics and Poetics of Belonging, Sfax, Tunisia. |
March 2015 | "Competence in 'Greek' 'desirable' - Negotiating conflicting ideals and realities of language competence in Georgia's Greek community" Projekttag VW Projekt, Bielefeld. |
September 2014 | "Who's in, who's out? Space and boundary making in rural Georgian Greek communities", International Workshop "Visible and invisible borders: Language use expressing group belonging and change in the Georgian Greek community", EUV. |
March 2014 | "Annotating the communicative tasks of identity construction" Projekttag VW Projekt "The impact of current transformational processes on language and ethnic identity: Urum and Pontic Greeks in Georgia", EUV. |
September 2013 | „Construction and negotiation of permeable and impermeable boundaries around Georgia’s Greek community“, 13. International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi, India. |
September 2013 | Panel organization in collaboration with Rita Vallentin and Katharina Rosenberg: Borders, Discourses, Identity, 13. International Pragmatics Conference (IPrA), New Delhi, India. |
July 2013 | “Constructing inter- and intra-group boundaries in Georgia's Greek community", 19. Congrès International des Linguistes, Geneva, Switzerland. |
February 2013 | “Constructing identity/ies in Georgia’s Greek multilingual community”, King’s Occasional Lectures, Cambridge, UK. (invited) |
September 2012 | „The making of inter- and intra-group boundaries in Georgia's Urum Greek community“, internationales Doktorandenkolloquium Europa Universität Sankt-Petersburg, Russland. |
August 2012 | „Place shapes identity – a case from Georgia’s Greek community“, 19. Sociolinguistics Symposium Berlin. |
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