A renowned scholar of linguistic nationalism from New Zealand visits Vilnius University

From 1–9 December, the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University is hosting Alexandar Maxwell, a distinguished researcher of linguistic nationalism, visiting under the ERASMUS+ programme. He is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and has published extensively on linguistic nationalism, the history of linguistic ideologies, the history of everyday life, particularly nationalised sexuality, and the social history of clothing. He also publishes pedagogical articles about teaching history.

His broader interests concern nationalism and cultural history in the Habsburg, Romanov, Hohenzollern, and Ottoman Empires, as well as their successor states. He is the director of the Antipodean East European Study Group.

We invite you to attend the associate professor’s lectures:

1 Dec. 17.00: “Linguistic Panslavism in the Habsburg State Apparatus”, room 314AB;
3 Dec. 9.45: “Vladimir Putin, Normative Isomorphism, and the Language/Dialect Dichotomy”, Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, 303 room;
4 Dec. 17.00: “The Myth of Circassian Beauty: Chauvinism, Racism and Sexual Fantasy”, room 118 (Krėvės);
5 Dec. 15.00: “Restoring Polylingual nationalism to East-Central European Historiography: Hungary as a case study”, Room 314AB;
8 Dec. 17.00: Debate “Limits of linguistic agnosticism” (with researchers from the Faculty of Philology at Vilnius University, Assoc. Prof. Vladimir Panov and Assoc. Prof. Vuk Vukotić), “Donelaitis” room;
9 Dec. 17.00: “National Uniforms, Sartorial Sovereignty, and Democratisation”, room 314AB.