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Conference work across disciplines and borders.
Selected plenary talks, research presentations, committee leadership and moderation, followed by a proceedings-based record of earlier conference contributions.
2026
Conference leadership, partnership and public scholarship
VIZJA University · International online conference
Multilingual Dialogues–2026: Human–AI Communication Across Generations
A three-day conference connecting multilingualism, translation and interpreting, language education, media and computational approaches with the emerging problem of responsible human–AI communication.
Yan Kapranov’s documented role: Chair of both the Scientific Committee and the Organising Committee. The three official programmes also assign him seven thematic room-chair roles and list him as a co-author of a presentation on human–AI mediation in multilingual public administration.
Conference-to-publication record
- Three-day conferenceParallel thematic sessions examined language, multilingual communication and human responsibility in AI-mediated settings.
- Open conference materialsThree programmes and three Books of Abstracts created a searchable, day-by-day research record.
- Peer-reviewed special issueDIALOGICA published one editorial and twelve independently assessed scholarly contributions.
Academic leadership
From committee responsibility to session-level work
- Dual chairmanship covered both scientific oversight and conference organisation.
- The official schedules assign Yan Kapranov three chaired sessions on Day 1, two on Day 2 and two on Day 3.
- The Day 1 programme lists Bożena Iwanowska, Yan Kapranov and Bolesław Cieślik as co-authors of “Who Speaks for the State in Multilingual Administration? Human-AI Mediation, Political Legitimacy, and Trust in Administrative Communication.”
Durable scholarly outputs
A documented record beyond the event itself
- The three public Books of Abstracts contain 83, 102 and 89 included entries respectively—274 entries in total.
- A conference video channel preserves selected presentations; the archive announcement states that recordings were released with the respective presenters’ consent.
- Yan Kapranov later served as Guest Editor of the conference-linked DIALOGICA special issue and authored its editorial introduction.
Evidence boundary: the official VIZJA page verifies the dates, online format, institutional network and both committee-chair roles. The three programmes verify seven session-chair assignments and the co-authored programme entry, but do not establish which co-author delivered that presentation. The total of 274 refers to included abstract entries, not unique participants. The DIALOGICA special issue was connected with the conference, but participation did not guarantee publication: manuscripts were handled as stand-alone submissions, research articles underwent double-anonymised peer review, and final acceptance decisions were made independently of the Guest Editor.
The Zoom screenshots remain private evidence because they expose participant faces, names and meeting-interface details. Later photographs of laptop screens are technically weak, while conference and journal graphics carry multiple institutional marks. This case therefore stays text-first and directs readers to the original public records.
European Studies as an Instrument for Ukraine’s Recovery: Digital Education, Multilingual Integration, and Visual Communication in the ESPERIDTA, ROAD2EU, and VISUAL-EU Projects
A keynote contribution to the plenary discussion on rebuilding Ukraine at the II International Scientific and Practical Forum “Ukraine’s Recovery: Intersectoral, Theoretical and Applied Analysis and Development Potentials.”
International University · Odesa, Ukraine
Three-project synthesis · education and recovery
- Digital educationEuropean Studies was presented as a practical recovery instrument that can connect digitally supported teaching with new educational models and academic resilience.
- Multilingual inclusionThe contribution linked multilingual education and EU-oriented academic cooperation with institutional partnership across Poland and Ukraine.
- Visual communicationESPERIDTA, ROAD2EU and VISUAL-EU served as complementary examples of translating European knowledge into teachable, multilingual and publicly accessible formats.
Evidence boundary: the Ukrainian national research-information registry and the published forum proceedings verify the event title, date and Odesa venue. The ESPERIDTA project record verifies the keynote role, plenary context and exact presentation title. A host-issued certificate in the private author archive independently records participation, but no public 2026 host programme naming the individual speaker has been located.
The certificate and promotional poster remain private evidence rather than page illustrations. The certificate exposes its registration number, institutional seal and signature; the poster uses wording that differs from the verified project record. The public entry therefore stays text-first.
From Grant to Academic Ecosystem: The Culture of International Partnership
The official programme places this contribution in the 14 May plenary session, lists Yan Kapranov in the Programme Committee, and later names him moderator of the English for Academic Purposes section.
Sumy State Pedagogical University · Hybrid event
Saying the Unsayable
A conference paper recorded in the existing personal-site archive in connection with CEMORY at Jagiellonian University.
Kraków · Personal archive record
External programme link not yet located
2025
AI-assisted translation pedagogy, language ideology, multilingual practice and historical linguistics
Applied Linguistics-3D · IV International Scientific and Practical Conference
Proto-Language States Across Different Chronological Strata and the Determination of Their Genealogical Affiliation: A Diachronic-Panchronic Perspective
A plenary contribution that reframed proto-languages as evolving, chronologically layered systems and set out a cautious framework for testing genealogical relationships across shallow and deep linguistic time.
Yan Kapranov’s documented role: the host university’s report places him among the speakers in the second-day plenary session. The dated author archive identifies the presentation as a keynote and records him moderating the first part of that plenary session.
Evidence trail · three independent layers
- Plenary deliveryThe host’s institutional report names Yan Kapranov and the presentation among the second-day plenary contributions.
- Leadership recordThe author archive records keynote delivery and moderation of the first part of the plenary session.
- Proceedings publishedThe official conference site provides the full four-page paper and a separate contents record.
Core argument
Proto-languages are stratified systems, not frozen points
- Reconstruction should distinguish early, middle and late states within a proto-language instead of assuming a single homogeneous ancestor.
- Diachronic reconstruction can be strengthened by typological benchmarking and phylogenetic modelling, while computational results remain dependent on data quality and model assumptions.
- Claims of deep relatedness require regular correspondences, stable core vocabulary and explicit separation of inheritance from borrowing, convergence and areal influence.
Scholarly leadership
A stronger record than conference attendance
This case combines a plenary research contribution, session moderation and a published proceedings paper. Together, they document both intellectual content and responsibility for the academic exchange.
Read alongside the 2024 Applied Linguistics-3D presentation on Bayesian networks, the contribution shows a continuing research line: from computational modelling of Nostratic relationships toward a broader framework that integrates chronology, typology, phylogenetic modelling and contact analysis.
Evidence boundary: the host report and official proceedings verify the conference dates, plenary placement, presenter, title and full paper. “Keynote speaker,” the precise presentation time and moderation of the first part of the plenary session are supported by the dated author archive, but are not individually stated in the host’s published report. The two official sources also show different affiliation combinations; no affiliation line is therefore reproduced here.
Six near-duplicate online-conference screenshots are retained as evidence but not reproduced. They contain other participants, platform interface elements and third-party conference marks. If image rights and privacy are cleared later, the title-slide capture is the only frame worth preparing for public use.
Finnish Conference of Linguistics 2025 · Language and sustainability
Purism vs. Everyday Practice: Language Ideology and the Role of Surzhyk in the Shift from Russian to Ukrainian Among Ukrainian Migrants and War Refugees in Finland
A joint sociolinguistic presentation on the tension between language-purity ideals and the practical role of mixed Ukrainian–Russian speech during wartime language shift and displacement.
Yan Kapranov’s documented role: co-author and in-room presenter. The official programme lists Anna Verschik, Yan Kapranov and Maria Frick in that order; a dated photograph in the author archive records Yan delivering the presentation.
Research record · verified chronology
- Manuscript receivedThe later journal article was already under review before the conference presentation.
- Conference presentationThe final programme confirms the joint paper within a 90-minute multilingual-practices workshop.
- Article publishedLanguages published the related four-author, open-access study as volume 10, issue 10, article 254.
Conference abstract
What the presentation examined
- How Ukrainian migrants in Finland perceived Surzhyk in relation to purism and changing language ideologies.
- Which social pressures shaped whether mixed speech was tolerated, rejected or redefined.
- How Finland’s multilingual environment entered the shift from Russian-dominant to Ukrainian-dominant communication.
The abstract described qualitative interviews and survey data and framed Surzhyk as contested: an obstacle to linguistic purity for some speakers, but a pragmatic step in de-Russification for others.
Related peer-reviewed output
A closely related — but not identical — article
Suržyk as a Transitional Stage from Russian to Ukrainian: The Perspective of Ukrainian Migrants and War Refugees in Finland
Yan Kapranov, Anna Verschik, Liisa-Maria Lehto and Maria Frick · Languages 10(10), 254 · DOI 10.3390/languages10100254.
The publisher-verified article narrows the method to qualitative content analysis of survey responses and adds Liisa-Maria Lehto to the author team.
Evidence boundary: the programme verifies the title, author order, workshop and session window, but not who physically spoke. The dated author-archive photograph supports Yan’s in-room presentation, but does not establish the attendance mode of every co-author. Because the journal received the later manuscript before the talk—and the authorship and method differ—the two records support research continuity, not a claim that the conference presentation “became” the article.
The conference photograph is retained as evidence but is not reproduced in this text-first case. Its title slide includes another scholar’s portrait and conference marks, so public image reuse requires a separate rights and cropping decision.
Modernising Nostratic Linguistics: Mapping Multidirectional Language Relationships
A plenary contribution to the III International Youth Conference “Plato Is My Friend, but Truth Is Dearer.”
Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University · 3–4 March 2025
Official programme2024
Language modelling, European values and migration
Utilizing Bayesian Networks to Model the Nostratic Proto-Language
A presentation at the III International Scientific and Practical Conference “Applied Linguistics-3D: Language, IT, ELT.”
Zhytomyr Polytechnic State University · 23–24 May 2024
Conference recordGlobalization Processes and Their Impact on the Formation of Grammatical Norms in Modern Polish and Ukrainian
A lecture at the XXIX International Scientific Conference “Strategies for Shaping Pro-European Value Orientations in the Student Environment.”
Kyiv · International scientific conference
Institutional bulletinUkrainians and the Ukrainian Language in Finland
A poster contribution within the “Resilient and Secure Society” theme at UniOulu Science Day 2024.
University of Oulu · Linnanmaa Campus
Official programme2023
AI, ethics and Nostratic modelling
Bayesian Network of Bomhard’s Nostratic Tree Phylogeny for *phaħ- (~ *phǝħ-)
Scientific Committee membership and a joint presentation with Bożena Iwanowska at the international conference “Wellbeing, Artificial Intelligence and the Ethical Challenges.”
Klaipėda University · Online
Official programme2022
Digital archives and Holocaust research
Digital Geo-Mapping of Holocaust Processes in Europe
A presentation on contemporary methods for acquiring and analysing digitised data at the workshop “Presenting Holocaust Resources in the Digital Age.”
Yad Vashem · EHRI–EVZ workshop
Institutional bulletinDigitalization of Holocaust Processes: Romania Case
A presentation with Bożena Iwanowska during the seminar “The Study of the Holocaust in Romania: Current State and Trends.”
Bucharest · International methodological seminar
Institutional bulletinEarlier conference contributions.
These entries are documented in published proceedings or repository records. They confirm a conference contribution; they do not by themselves establish whether participation was in person, online or by publication only. Full APA 7 references remain in the Publications archive.
20261 contribution
- Digital European Studies in Higher Education: Humanistic Dimensions of EU Economic, Social, and Territorial SynergyRecord ↗
20217 contributions
- Stress Phenomena During the Coronavirus Disease Period in Various Social GroupsRecord ↗
- Semantic Structure of the Lexeme “Crisis” in the Discourses of English, French, and UkrainianRecord ↗
- The Noosphere as an Intellectual ContinuumRecord ↗
- Methodological Algorithm for Establishing Semantic Transitions and Matches in Nostratic LanguagesRecord ↗
- Anthropocosmism as the Main Idea of the Noosphere: Prospects and Predictions
- The AntConc Corpus Manager and Its Possibilities for Determining the Frequency of Key Words in Different LanguagesRecord ↗
- Nostratic Reflexes in LithuanianProceedings ↗
20201 contribution
- Computer Databases as Information and Search Resources for Global EtymologiesRecord ↗
20193 contributions
- Structure of the Consonant Root in Afroasiatic Languages (Using the Etymon *hwq- “to Know”)
- Evaluating the Proximity of Two Languages: Decision on Relatedness
- Application of the Laryngeal Theory in Indo-European and Afroasiatic Etymons
20185 contributions
- Recording Degrees of Language Relatedness Within the Dravidian Language Family
- Phonetic Laws as a Methodological Tool for Verifying Language Relatedness
- Semantic Reconstruction as a Procedure for Restoring the Ancient Meaning of a Word
- International Database “Tower of Babel” as a Search System for Studying Nostratic Etymologies
- Cognates and Interlanguage Equivalents: Terminological Correlation
20177 contributions
- Slavic Parallels in the Languages of the Nostratic Macrofamily
- The Nostratic Proto-Language as a Primordial Structure
- The Nostratic Macrofamily in the Context of Other Hypothetical Macrofamilies
- Methodology for Searching for Language-Family Relationships by V. M. Illich-Svitych
- Constructing A. B. Dolgopolsky’s Nostratic Dictionary as a Source of Macro-Comparative Studies
- Testing the Method of Diachronic Interpretation in Macro-Comparative Studies
- Methodological Procedure for Identifying Degrees of Language Affinity in Comparative and Macro-Comparative Studies
20161 contribution
- Monocentrist Hypothesis of Language Origin
20152 contributions
- Historical-Genetic Origins of the Concept of the Nostratic Proto-Language in Modern Comparative-Historical Linguistics
- Reflection of the Phonematic Principle of Orthography in Etymological Hypotheses of Ukrainian Words
20144 contributions
- Methodology for Describing Dictionary Entries in Etymological Sources
- Constructing a Dictionary Entry with the Headword “батько” (Father) in the Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language
- Constructing Dictionary Entries in Etymological Sources of English and Ukrainian
- Zonal Organisation of Data in Dictionary Entries of Etymological Sources of English and Ukrainian
20133 contributions
- Historical-Philological Approach to Establishing the Typology of Dictionaries in Modern Lexicography
- Modern Trends in the Study of Lexicographic Sources
- Disputable Nature of Lexicography in Modern Linguistics
