The programme  of this conference is structured to move from the more conceptual and theoretical, without privileging any particular ethnic, social or linguistic group, to a more narrow focus on Russian as a minority language in the modern world, not discounting discussion of other global/world/vehicular/bridge or minority languages in diaspora.

The "Our Languages" research team of Trinity College Dublin will bring together scholars in the fields of language in society, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, language politics, and diaspora and identity studies in four panels:

• Multilingualism in the Public Sphere;
• Culture over Time;
• Networking and Identity Performance;
• Russian as a Local Language.

The submission deadline for paper proposals is 31 October 2010.

Contact: Sarah Smyth, Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland; e-mail: ssmyth@tcd.ie; www.tcd.ie/Russian/our-languages/conference.php