On November 15, 2019 RUDN University welcomes Professor Douglas Mark Ponton.

Douglas Mark Ponton is Professor at University of Catania (Italy), member of editorial board of Russian Journal of Linguistics.

Research Interests: Pragmatics, Semantics, Discourse Analysis.

Professor Ponton will present a public lecture at Foreign Languages Department, Faculty of Philology.

15:00 -16:00

(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, lecture hall 541)

The formation of popular opinion: Media representation of Russia

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/W7puC8CNUqKP7LJ86

On November 13, 2019 RUDN University welcomes Professor Gunter Senft

Gunter Senft is a senior investigator at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen (The Netherlands) and extraordinary professor of general linguistics at the University of Cologne (Germany). He has been studying the language and the culture of the Trobriand Islanders of Papua New Guinea since 1982 and conducted field research on the Trobriand Islands for 45 months during 16 long- and short-term field-trips between 1982 and 2012.

Research interests: Austronesian and Papuan languages, anthropological linguistics, pragmatics, semantics, the interface between language, culture, and cognition, the conceptualization of space and spatial reference, serial verb constructions and systems of nominal classification. Among his publications figure more than 150 articles in journals, handbooks and anthologies and 20 books.

Gunter Senft will present a public lecture at Foreign Languages Department, Faculty of Philology

15:00 -16:00

(Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, lecture hall 528)

"... to grasp the native's point of view ..." - A plea for a holistic documentation of the Trobriand Islanders' language, culture and cognition

Registration is required: https://forms.gle/giuKTNhqSusg3zRD8

Dear colleagues!

Due to large number of requests received by the RJL editorial board regarding the terms for reviewing procedures, we repost the following information:

Manuscript submission for numbers 3-4 2019, 1-2020 was closed in february 2019. Thus, reviewing of papers, received after February will start in October-November 2019. The reviewing period is 2-5 months, depending on the workload of the Anonymous Expert Council.

Thank you for understanding!

Dear colleagues!

Due to large number of requests received by the RJL editorial board regarding the terms for reviewing procedures, we repost the following information:

Manuscript submission for numbers 3-4 2019, 1-2020 was closed in february 2019. Thus, reviewing of papers, received after February will start in October-November 2019. The reviewing period is 2-5 months, depending on the workload of the Anonymous Expert Council.

Thank you for understanding!

Dear colleagues,

Information on international conference "IV Firsova Reading: Language in Modern Discourse Practices" is available by the following link: f-ch.org

Hope to see you in RUDN University!

The International Conference “Global Migration Trends 2020: Security, Healthcare and Integration” was passed on June 4-5, 2019. This Conference was organized by IMLICaM in RUDN (People`s Friendship University of Russia).

The Conference is a forum for the development of international humanitarian dialogue in the field of migration together with the exchange of the experience of the expert and research activity on the study of migration processes in the Eurasian space.

As part of the plenary session and conference sections a wide range of migration-related issues was considered:

• Global trends and challenges of modern migration processes in Eurasia
• Migration turbulence: legal regulation at the national level. The role and potential of a Global Migration Treaty in Eurasia
• Multiculturalism and multilingualism: best practices of organizing reception and adaptation of various migrants’ categories
• Cooperation of state authorities and civil society institutions in the migration management Migration as a challenge for national healthcare systems
• Efficient integration of migrant children as a factor of long-term social stability
• Politics and mass-media: the created effects for migration

The event passed with the expert support of the Council of Europe with the participation of specialized professionals from member states of the European Union and CIS.

The International Conference “Global Migration Trends 2020: Security, Healthcare and Integration” was passed on June 4-5, 2019. This Conference was organized by IMLICaM in RUDN (People`s Friendship University of Russia).

The Conference is a forum for the development of international humanitarian dialogue in the field of migration together with the exchange of the experience of the expert and research activity on the study of migration processes in the Eurasian space.

As part of the plenary session and conference sections a wide range of migration-related issues was considered:

• Global trends and challenges of modern migration processes in Eurasia
• Migration turbulence: legal regulation at the national level. The role and potential of a Global Migration Treaty in Eurasia
• Multiculturalism and multilingualism: best practices of organizing reception and adaptation of various migrants’ categories
• Cooperation of state authorities and civil society institutions in the migration management Migration as a challenge for national healthcare systems
• Efficient integration of migrant children as a factor of long-term social stability
• Politics and mass-media: the created effects for migration

The event was passed with the expert support of the Council of Europe with the participation of specialized professionals from member states of the European Union and CIS.

Deer Colleagues! 
RUDN University stars at QS World University Rankings by Subject 2019: “Modern Languages” (151-200) and “Linguistics” (251-300). 
We congratulate and thank RUDN staff across these disciplines who have collectively contributed to this great result.