Talks and presentations – Munda languages

April 20, 2020: The Seminar on Typology and Semiotics of Folklore was held in Russian State University for the Humanities. Evgeniya Renkovskaya and Anastasia Krylova presented an online talk “Sora tribe: from Animism to religious diversity”.
December 1, 2019: The Moscow International Language Festival was held at the Higher School of Economics. At the Festival, Anastasia Krylova gave a lecture “The writings systems of India”, in which, among other things, she talked about the phenomenon of autochthonous scripts for Munda languages.
October 30, 2019: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya made a presentation “Areal features of the basic vocabularies of the languages of the South Odisha” at the 35th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA-35), at the National institute of oriental languages and civilizations (INALCO), Paris, France. Abstract.
May 29, 2019: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya made a report “The sociolinguistic situation of the tribal people living in the Koraput and Malkangiri districts of the Odisha state of India” at a Seminar on the Problems of General and Oriental Linguistics held in the Department of Asian and African languages, Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
May 16, 2019: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya made a report “The poetry of Munda people” at the XL Zograf Readings at the Faculty of Oriental Studies of St. Petersburg State University.
May 13, 2019: Anastasia Krylova made a report “Poetic Improvisation of the Southern Munda” at Miklouho Maclay Readings 2019 at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Kunstkamera).
April 28, 2019: The Festival of Indian Languages was held at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow, with the support of the Jawaharlal Nehru Cultural Centre (JNCC) of The Embassy of India. Evgeniya Renkovskaya and Anastasia Krylova presented educational lectures on Sora and Gutob languages. Beyond that, Anastasia Krylova gave a lecture “The writing systems of India”, which dealt, in particular, with the autochthonous scripts for Munda languages.
April 6, 2019: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya presented a talk “Five types of Sora script: causes, genesis, formation” at the international conference “Linguistic Forum 2019: Indigenous Languages of Russia and the World” at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
October 12, 2018: Evgeniya Renkovskaya and Anastasia Krylova were invited speakers at the International seminar on Endangered languages of Central and Western Himalaya in Almore (Uttarakhand) with a talk «शिक्षा में मातृभाषा: हिमालय की भाषा विविधता के संरक्षण का एक उपाय» (Mother tongue in education: a step towards preservation of language diversity of the Himalayas). Abstract.
September 29, 2018: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya made a report “The role of religion in preserving the language: the case of Sora” at the Seminar on the Problems of General and Oriental Linguistics at the Department of Asian and African Languages of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
August 31, 2018: Anastasia Krylova and Evgeniya Renkovskaya made a poster presentation “Religion and language preservation: the case of Sora” at the 51st Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea in Tallinn.
March 24, 2017: Anastasia Krylova gave a talk “Munda languages: lexicostatistics according to the new data” at the the 12th Annual Sergei Starostin Memorial Conference on Comparative-Historical Linguistics.
March 1, 2017: Anastasia Krylova made a report “Autochthonous scripts for Munda languages” at the Seminar on the Problems of General and Oriental linguistics of the Department of Asian and African Languages of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
August 6, 2016: Anastasia Krylova made a presentation “Language situation and language policy: the case of Odisha state of India” at the Seminar on the Problems of General and Oriental linguistics of the Department of Asian and African Languages of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.