Multilingualism Research Group

MULTILINGUALISM RESEARCH GROUP

The Multilingualism Research Group

Since 2008, the Multilingualism Research Group has organized a series of annual meetings on the topics of "Multilingualism, Linguae francae and History of Knowledge" in different linguistic and chronological contexts, hosted by various scholarly institutions of Europe and Asia.

The Multilingualism Research Group is an institutional cooperation between the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW), the Italian Institute for the Middle and Far East (ISMEO) and the Norwegian Institute of Philology (PHI).

The circle of partner institutions engaged in the scholarly debates within the Multilingualism Research Group has been enlarging itself constantly ever since the first meetings in 2008 and 2009: The forum unites partners from the Norwegian Institute of Philology (Jens E. BRAARVIG and Amund BJORSNES), the TOPOI Cluster at the Freie Universität and the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft in Berlin (Florentina BADALANOVA, Mark GELLER), the University of Bologna (Antonio PANAINO), the University of Verona (Paola COTTICELLI), of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität of Munich (Olav HACKSTEIN, Peter-Arnold MUMM), the DARIOSH Project at L 'Orientale University of Naples (Adriano ROSSI) and the University of Viterbo (Ela FILIPPONE), of "La Sapienza" University of Rome (Mauro MAGGI, Maria Carmela BENVENUTO and Flavia POMPEO), the University of Vienna (Gebhard SELZ and his team, in co-ordination with the European project group Classifiers), and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (Bert FRAGNER, Florian SCHWARZ, Velizar SADOVSKI).

More information about the Multilingualism Research Group can be found in the introductions to the published books (see further below on the present page).

Previous Conferences

Sofia 2008
Athens 2009: Multilingualism, Linguae Francae, and the Global History of Religious and Scientific Concepts. An international conference, Norwegian Institute at Athens, April 2-5, 2009, conveners: Jens E. BRAARVIG and †Malcolm HYMAN.
Vienna 2009: Classification as a Hermeneutic Tool. A Workshop at the Oriental Institute, Vienna University, November 2, 2009, convener: Gebhard SELZ.
Vienna 2010: Multilingual Lists, Cataloges, and Classification Systems. A workshop within the Interdisciplinary Conference Multilingualism in Central Asia, Near and Middle East from Antiquity to Early Modern Times, organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies and the International Relations Department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, March 1-3, 2010. Conveners: Bernhard PLUNGER, Velizar SADOVSKI, Florian SCHWARZ.
Marburg 2010: Organization of knowledge in Asian Cultures: Lists, catalogues and classification systems between orality and scriptuality. Panel in the framework of the 31st German Congress of Oriental Studies, Marburg, September 20–24, 2010. Conveners: Jens E. BRAARVIG, Mark GELLER and Velizar SADOVSKI.
Berlin 2010: Crossing Boundaries: Multilingualism, Lingua Franca and Lingua Sacra, TOPOI Conference, BERLIN, November 8–10, 2010. Convener: Markham GELLER.
Sofia 2011
Berlin 2011: The TOPOI Conference Knowledge to Die For: Transmission of Prohibited and Esoteric Knowledge through Space and Time, Berlin, May 2–4, 2011. Convener: Florentina BADALANOVA GELLER.
Vienna 2011: Lists, Catalogues, and Classification Systems from Comparative and Historical Point of View. A workshop of the Multilingualism Research Group, held in the framework of the Interdisciplinary Conference Multilingualism and History of Knowledge in Asia from Antiquity till Early Modern Times, Vienna, November 3-5, 2011. Organized by the Institute of Iranian Studies and the International Relations Department of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, November 3–5, 2011. Conveners: Bernhard PLUNGER, Velizar SADOVSKI, Florian SCHWARZ.
Oslo 2017: Scriptura Franca – conference in Oslo, June 5–7, 2017. Convener: Jens BRAARVIG.
Rome 2019: Word formation, grammar and lexicology in a multilingual context: between comparative-historical, theoretical, and computational corpus linguistics, International Conference in Rome, February 6–8, 2019. Convened by the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, the Multilingualism Research Group (Vienna), the Austrian Academy of Sciences, the ISMEO Association, and the Norwegian Institute of Philology