Lecture series
Ways of State-Building in Contemporary China (co-organised by Michela Bonato, Ca Foscari University): Chinese geopolitics and border security, domestic language policies, phenomena of public space negotiation, and digital narratives of governance and resistance. Programme here: https://apps.unive.it/server/eventi/107086/Poster_overall%20programme.pdf
Project Workshop
27 June 2025. Workshop: Current approaches on the linguistic landscape: Case studies from Asia and Europe: Programme here: https://box.fu-berlin.de/s/zofHMt9zP5xezL6
Presentations at conferences
6-8 May 2024. Giulia Cabras: Third Conference on Endangered of Languages of East Asia, Ca Foscari University. “Boundaries in the linguistic landscape of Amdo (Qinghai province, Northwest China): hierarchies, officiality, and hybridity”. https://www.unive.it/pag/fileadmin/user_upload/eventi/conferenze/CELEA/documenti/CELEA3programme.pdf
4-7 March 2025. Giulia Cabras. Linguistic landscape as “acts of writing”: Sinicization, innovations, and speakers’perception of Tibetan written in urban space. Linguistic variation and change meet anthropology: Investigating ways of speaking in cultural contexts. 47th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistic Society.
3-5 September 2025. Giulia Cabras: The transformation of the linguistic landscape through shop names. A linguistic, geosemiotic, and ethnographic analysis of commercial signs in a Tibetan town. Linguistic Landscape 16: Spaces of Collapse and Tranformation, Essen.
Talks
24 April 2024. Giulia Cabras: Forschungscolloquium Romanistische Sprachwissenschaft FU Berlin. (In)visibility of Multilingualism in Amdo Tibet: a case study on a Tibetan autonomous area
06 June 2024. Giulia Cabras: Thursday Lecture Series Chinese on Linguistics and Chinese Language Teaching. Multilingualism in QinghaiProvince: Insights from the Linguistic Landscape. https://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/sinologie/institut/termine/Termine-2024/6_6_Linguistics_Cabras.html
05 June 2025. Giulia Cabras: Sociolinguistic Seminar Europa Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder. Shop signs and economic development in the linguistic landscape of Tibetan areas in China.