“Banat Bulgarians – Cultural Heritage, Language, and Literature” , Sofia, Bulgaria
Оn January 26th, 2024, Anđela Redžić and Dalibor Sokolović participated in the conference “Banat Bulgarians – Cultural Heritage, Language, and Literature” at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia, where they presented their research “Domains of Banat Bulgarian Language Use in Serbia”. Anđela and Dalibor highlighted that Banat Bulgarian is primarily used in the private […]
Online lecture “Gurbet Romani in contact: corpus data from Serbia”
On February 8, 2024, Mirjana Mirić and Svetlana Ćirković, members of the VLingS project and senior research associates of the Institute for Balkan Studies SASA, delivered an online lecture titled “Gurbet Romani in contact: corpus data from Serbia”. The lecture took place within the linguistics seminar of the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) at Hokkaido University.
The International Mother Language Day, Ivanovo
“The International Mother Language Day is celebrated worldwide on February 21st, with the aim of drawing attention to the importance of language as part of the identity of ethnic communities, as well as promoting efforts to preserve languages considered vulnerable or endangered.” This is how the organizers of the event dedicated to this important day […]
Podcast “Balkan Calling – Voices from the Region”
Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, PI of the VLingS project, talked in Regensburg, within the framework of the podcast series “Balkan Calling – Voices from the Region”, about language vitality and endangerment, language standardization, the linguistic landscape, and multilingualism in Serbia. An interview by Jack Broughton. Listen at: https://seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/podcast/
Field research of Eastern Serbia
Between April 8 and 14, 2024, Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković, leader of the VLingS project, together with Giustina Selvelli, anthropologist and sociolinguist from the Department of Sociology, University of Ljubljana, carried out field research on the Vlach minority of Eastern Serbia. They are trying to assess the impact of the current environmental challenges the Vlachs are facing […]
Photo Safari Ivanovo
Anđela Redžić and Dalibor Sokolović, members of the VLingS project, visited Ivanovo for the “Photo Safari Ivanovo” event on April 28, 2024. They had the opportunity to observe photographers at work, to talk to members of the Banat Bulgarian community and record narratives in their language, but also to admire and photograph traditional Banat Bulgarian […]
“Knjaževac Region Conference: Potentials, Status, and Development Perspectives”
Organized by the National Library “Njegoš” and the Serbian Geographical Society, the second “Knjaževac Region Conference: Potentials, Status, and Development Perspectives” took place in Knjaževac from April 24 to 26, 2024. Members of the VLingS project, Mirjana Mirić and Svetlana Ćirković, were part of the Scientific Committee of the conference. Additionally, Mirjana Mirić participated in […]
“Language, Literature, Intersectionality 2024”, Niš
On Saturday, April 27, 2024, Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković and Dušan Vlajić, members of the VLingS project, took part in the conference “Language, Literature, Intersectionality 2024”, organized by the Faculty of Philosophy in Niš. Their contribution titled “Navigating Vulnerability: Language Attitudes through an Intersectional Lens” presented the results of the pilot research conducted in 2022 within the […]
Paper “Challenges in Researching Endangered and Vulnerable Languages”
Valentina Sokolovska and Biljana Radić Bojanić, members of the VLingS project, have just published a paper in the “Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology” journal. You can read it and get acquainted with our experiences in the field and our way of dealing with various methodological and ethical issues that come up in the process of […]
Lecture “Balkan Varieties in Serbia”
On May 9, 2024, Anđela Redžić, member of the VLingS project, delivered the lecture titled “Balkan Varieties in Serbia” at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade, upon invitation of the Department of Slavic Studies. During her lecture she also presented the project “Vulnerable Languages and Linguistic Varieties in Serbia”, with a particular […]