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ABOUT NATALIA FIRSOVA

Natalia M. Firsova worked at Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia named after Patrice Lumumba (RUDN University) from 1961 until her death. She was the head of the Department of Foreign Languages, the Dean of the Faculty of History and Philology, the chairman of the dissertation council, the founder and editor-in-chief of the Bulletin of Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia. Series Linguistics.

Thanks to her first-rate organizational skills and close creative contact with students and post-graduates both in Russia and in Spanish-speaking countries, the foundations of Latin American studies and the variability of pluricentric languages were laid at RUDN University. Now, the continuation may be seen in the School of Typology of Variation of Pluricentric Languages, which was founded in 2022 by the RUDN Academic Council.

On the initiative of Natalia M. Firsova, new degree specialisations in Linguistics and Journalism were opened at RUDN University, and curricula and programs were significantly reformed.

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE

Firsova Readings is an international forum of linguists, literary critics, and culturologists, which has been held since 2014 by the Department of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology and the Scientific and Educational Institute of Modern Languages, Intercultural Communication and Migration (RUDN University), to commemorate the outstanding Russian philologist-novelist and organizer of science, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation - Natalia Mikhailovna Firsova (1929-2013). The tradition of holding Firsova readings was initiated by the head of the Department of Foreign Languages, currently the First Vice Rector – Vice Rector for Education of RUDN University, PhD, Associate Professor Yulia N. Ebzeeva.

The VII Firsova Readings in 2025 are expected to feature a broad discussion of current issues in modern linguistics in fundamental and applied aspects. One of the new conference papers will be the section "Audiovisual Translation and Localization". For the first time, the event will host a round table "The World of Africa in Language and Culture". Students, masters and postgraduate students can present the results of their research as part of the round table "Views of Young Scientists"

Conference languages: Russian and English
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GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

PLENARY SPEAKERS

Pavel A. SIROTOV
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Olga S. CHESNOKOVA
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Cláudio Márcio do CARMO
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Zoya G. PROSHINA
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Alexey V. KOZULYAEV
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Aseel ZIBIN
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Elena S. GRITSENKO
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Marina M. RAEVSKAYA
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Lilia V. MOISEENKO
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Zhanna V. MARFINA
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Veronika V. KATERMINA
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Olga I. PROSYANNIKOVA
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Lazar STOŠIĆ
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Haiyan ZHOU
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ORGANIZERS

The conference will cover the following areas

  • Intercultural communication and cross-cultural pragmatic
  • Discourse analysis of the text in cross-cultural contexn
  • Language and linguoculture variation
  • Word, phraseological unit, paroemia: linguocultural interpretation, value content and functional capacity
  • Current issues in liguodidactics and methodology of teaching foreign language
  • Cognitive language studies: digitalization, visualization and verbalization
  • Audiovisual translation and localization
  • Corpus and computational linguistics

The conference will feature two roundtable discussions:

  • The World of Africa in Language and Culture (working languages - Russian, English, and French)
  • Perspectives of young scientists (for undergraduate and graduate students)
Papers of the participants of the conference and roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists” will be published in the conference e-proceedings (publisher - RUDN university, each article indexed in RSCI).

Key Dates

October 10, 2025
applications for conference participation deadline
October 13, 2025
Informing participants of acceptance for conference participation
October 13, 2025
Sending invitations to the participants
23-25 October 2025
Conference
December 1, 2025
submission of texts for publication deadline
First Quarter 2026
Publication of Conference Proceedings, distribution of electronic collections to authors of publications

THE PROGRAM

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09.00 – 10.00
CONFERENCE PARTICIPANT REGISTRATION (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6)
10.00 - 10.50
CONFERENCE OPENING (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6)
10.50 - 13.10
PLENARY SESSION (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6)
13.10 - 14.00
COFFEE BREAK (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6)
14.00 – 15.30
PLENARY SESSION

10.00 – 13.30
Section “WORD, PHRASEOLOGICAL UNIT, PAROEMIA: LINGUOCULTURAL INTERPRETATION, VALUE CONTENT AND FUNCTIONAL CAPACITY” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 170)
14.00 – 18.00
Section “INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AND CROSS-CULTURAL PRAGMATICS” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 170)
10.00 – 14.00
Section “COGNITIVE LANGUAGE STUDIES: DIGITALIZATION, VISUALIZATION AND VERBALIZATION” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 171)
14.30 – 18.30
Section “CURRENT ISSUES IN LINGUODIDACTICS AND METHODOLOGY OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGES” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 171)
10.00 – 12.30
Section “AUDIOVISUAL TRANSLATION AND LOCALIZATION” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 172)
13.00 – 18.00
Section “DISCOURSE ANALYSIS OF THE TEXT IN CROSS-CULTURAL CONTEXT” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 172)
10.00 – 14.00
Section “LANGUAGE AND LINGUOCULTURE VARIATION” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 173)
15.00 – 18.00
Roundtable discussion “THE WORLD OF AFRICA IN LANGUAGE AND CULTURE” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 173)
11.00 – 14.00
Section “CORPUS AND COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS” (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 169)
14.30 – 16.00
Workshop: "HOW TO ADD 'FLAVOR' TO SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS: PUBLIC SPEAKING TECHNIQUES" (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 169)
18.30 – 19.30
Workshop: "PROJECT-BASED LEARNING AS A TOOL FOR DEVELOPING SOCIAL AND PERSONAL COMPETENCIES" (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 6, room 169)

10.00-15.00
Roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists”, SECTION 1 (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, room 629)
10.00-17.00
Roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists”, SECTION 2 (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, room 631)
10.00-17.00
Roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists”, SECTION 3 (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, room 535)
10.00-16.00
Roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists”, SECTION 4 (Miklukho-Maklaya St., 10/2, room 644)
10.00-14.00
Roundtable discussion “Perspectives of young scientists”, SECTION 5 (online)

APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS AND CONFERENCE REGISTRATION FEES

Application requirements

To participate in the conference, please, fill a registration form (or a form for participants of the round table "Young Scientists' View"), containing an abstract of the report in Russian and English

Manuscript requirements

TPlease, send the text of your report (Appendices 1 and 2 in the conference information letter) to the address: firsova.readings@pfur.ru by December 1, 2025.

Title the file with your family name in the following way: Smith_article.

Registration fee is paid after receiving an official acceptance letter from the organizing committee. After you pay, please e-mail the confirmation to: firsova.readings@pfur.ru.

All travel and accommodation costs are covered by the participant’s sending party or by participants themselves.

Registration fee:

  • Remote participation (publication without presentation) - 1,000 rubles, ₽.
  • In-person or online participation (presentation without publication) - 1,500 rubles, ₽.
  • In-person or online participation (presentation and publication) - 2,000 rubles, ₽.

In-person participants with the presentation have an opportunity to get a free advanced training certificate (16 academic hours).

To receive the certificate, please, submit the following documents to the e-mail: cpecenter@rudn.ru

Required documents

Obtaining a certificate of advanced training is only possible in the case of in-person participation in the conference with a report.

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