FACULTY OF EXACT AND NATURAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF HUMANITIES
FACULTY OF SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF PSYCHOLOGY AND EDUCATIONAL SCIENCES
FACULTY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS
FACULTY OF MEDICINE
FACULTY OF LAW
Tbilisi (Georgia), 29 July - 3 August 2024
State Language Department, Ivane Javakhishvili Tbilisi State University and Giorgi Akhvlediani Society for the History of Linguistics are pleased to invite applications for a week-long summer school in sociolinguistics, running from Monday 29 July to Sunday 3 August 2024. Conducted in person in the First Campus of Tbilisi State University.
The Summer School in Sociolinguistics focuses on the theory and practice of sociolinguistics, language contact, linguistic situation, language hierarchy, language policy and human rights.
To participate in the Summer School, knowledge of English is required, since English is the working language of the school.
Summer School in Sociolinguistics is targeted at both BA, Ma and PHD students, also post-docs, junior and senior researchers and offers six slots on various topics. It will be last five days, the fifth day for student presentations, which will be followed by the excursion and banquet on Sunday, August 3, 2024.
Courses:
- Discovering Global Sociolinguistics (Prof. Dick Smakman, Leiden University)
- Multilingual Communities: Contact, Conflict and Management (Dr. Henning Radke, Amsterdam University)
- Language Policy—Case Studies (Prof. Michael Long, Baylor University, USA)
- Social aspects in Turkish language contacts (Prof. Matthias Kappler, University of Venice (Ca’ Foscari)
- Languages and Linguistics of the Caucasus (Dr. Thomas Wier, Free University, Tbilisi)
- Language Situation in Georgia (Prof. Tinatin Bolkvadze, TSU, Tbilisi)
Registration Instructions:
Applications are invited until 20 July through the online application form:
for English: https://shorturl.at/dsAY7
for Georgian: https://shorturl.at/dwCL9
or send an email to the following address: gashol.ge@gmail.com