Summary of the fourth edition of the International BEYOND LANGUAGE 2024 Conference
„Just reading articles, books and newspapers is not enough. You need to spend time, a lot of time, with people who know, from experience, what they are talking about”. Daniel Tammet (2017) 2022
The fourth edition of the international conference of young researchers BEYOND LANGUAGE 2024 is already a thing of the past.
This year, speakers from Israel, Romania, Ukraine, Dresden, Ireland, Wrocław, Poznań, Kraków, Olsztyn, Gdańsk and Warsaw met for four days in May at the Jagiellonian University (UJ), the University of Wrocław (UWr), Adam Mickiewicz University (UAM) and online to discuss, among other things: humor, Chinese novels, Georgian verbs, Dongba symbols, the language of poetry, the etymology of words, map grammar, mythical heroes, Homeric comparisons, syncretic cultural forms, interference of worlds and melic translation.
The BEYOND LANGUAGE conference is an eclectic festival of science and knowledge, proof of Albert Einstein’s assumption that curiosity has its own reason for existing. It is an international event dedicated to young scientists and researchers of language, literature and culture understood as key social patterns of human behavior, who deal with current research problems and methods of conducting research in the fields of anthropological linguistics, ethnography of communication, translation and interpretation studies, literary studies, social sciences, religion and culture – in perspective beyond language.
The guests and speakers of the International BEYOND LANGUAGE Conference are distinguished professors as well as budding academics. From the very start we encourage and support young researchers, students and doctoral students to share the research they are conducting.
Science enthusiasts can freely share their research results and use the results of other scientists without incurring any conference fees. Participation in the conference is free.
Speech and presentation authors can also submit their scientific articles at no cost to be published in our periodical Academic Journal of Modern Philology (ISSN 2299–7164; e-ISSN 2353–3218). The Academic Journal of Modern Philology is published open-source and without fees. Scientists can freely disseminate their research results and use the research results of other scientists to ensure that science expenditures are used as efficiently as possible.
Please send article proposals to monika.piechota@uwr.edu.pl by mid-September 2024
Each article published in the Academic Journal of Modern Philology is assigned a Digital Object Identifier and is subject to a double-sided blind review while adhering to the ethical standards of publication in a scientific journal.
All the necessary information about the Academic Journal of Modern Philology style sheet can be found on our website.
The conference opened on Monday, May 20, with: prof. Przemysław Dębowiak, Deputy Dean of the Faculty of Philology of the Jagiellonian University, prof. Izabela Gatkowska of the Jagiellonian University and prof. Piotr P. Chruszczewski of the University of Wrocław.
This year, the Beyond Language 2024 conference took place between May 20 and 23 in Kraków, Wrocław, Poznań and online, bringing together 62 outstanding young linguists, researchers and enthusiasts from around the world. The conference participants represented scientific centres such as: the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the University of Bucharest, the Mariupol State University, Lviv Polytechnic National University, Technische Universität Dresden, University College Cork, Kozminski University Warsaw, University of Wrocław, Adam Mickiewicz University Poznań, University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University in Kraków, University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, University of Gdańsk, Committee for Philology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch .
Each day of the conference created a platform for exchange of knowledge about the current research and scientific interests of young researchers in the field of linguistics and other scientific areas.
Presentations and discussions covered a wide range of topics, from new ways of translating various texts, to minority languages, to the impact of technology on the evolution of language.
Detailed conference schedule can be found here.
The incredibly intensive and rich in content conference was an opportunity to establish valuable connections and to inspire one another to further work towards developing language knowledge and other research areas.
Next year, we would like to invite you to another installment of the Beyond Language Conference in a new refreshed edition with new partner universities.
Text authors: Aleksandra R. Knapik and Monika Piechota
The full photo report can be viewed on the MSI College website.
All photos authored by Piotr P. Chruszczewski.
Translated by Kacper Piotrowski (student of English Studies at the University of Wrocław) as part of the translation practice.
