International Scientific and Practical Conference of Post-Graduates and Young Researchers «Language and Translation in the Context of Intercultural Communication: Relevant Issues and Contemporary Perspectives» began on the 22nd of April in the online format through the MS Teams platform.
The conference is held by International Institute of Interdisciplinary Education and Ibero-American Studies of Southern Federal University.
In the welcoming speech the director of the institute Natalya Karpovskaya emphasized the importance of the platform as a means of sharing experience and opinions between research groups in interdisciplinary scientific space. The director of Institute of Philology, Journalism and Intercultural Communication Gulnara Lomakina also pointed out thet the conference provides the students and young scientists with the possibility to approve the results of their studies. The conference is dedicated to problems, traditions and innovations in the spheres of teaching foreign languages, intercultural communication, linguocultural and cognitive-pragmatic aspects of translation, relevant problems of text and discourse etc.
Students of master’s programs, post-graduates, young scientists of Gomel State University (Belarus), Eurasian National University (Kazakhstan), as well as representatives of Moscow State University, Kazan Federal University, Kuban State University, Belgorod State National Research University, North-Caucasus Federal University, Irkutsk State University, Penza State University, Russian State Pedagogical University, Tomsk State University, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia took part in the conference.
XII International Academic Talks will also take place on the platform. Participants will be able to listen to lecturers from Gomel State University, Moscow State University and Southern Federal University.