Venue:
Rooms 8 & 9, Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Event date:
Thursday, 23 May, 2019 - 14:00 to 17:00
Speakers:
Event organiser:
Panel on “Multilingualism in Asia”
2pm: Welcome and Introduction
2.05 Vincenzo Vergiani: “Sanskrit: the making of a cosmopolitan language”
2.25 Imre Galambos: “Chinese primers beyond the frontier: Translation and adaptation along the Silk Road”
2.45 Laura Moretti: Negotiating languages on the printed page: the case of early-modern Japan.
3pm Tea break
3.30 Boping Yuan: “Acquisition of Chinese: Bilingualism and Multilingualism”
3.50 Geoffrey Khan: “Multilingualism and language contact in Western Asia”
4.10 Discussion with the panellists and the audience
5pm Ends