Lecture ‘Dialects of Romani – History and Classification’ by Professor Yaron Matras

Organized by the SASA Department of Social Sciences, Professor Yaron Matras, PhD, is to give a lecture titled The Dialects оf Romani: History аnd Classification on Wednesday, 2 October, at 11 a.m. at the SASA Grand Hall.

Professor Y. Matras is an expert on the Romani Language. His broad sphere of scholarly interest includes contact linguistics, language typology, documentation of endangered languages, dialectology, discourse pragmatics, language policy and planning, urban multilingualism (particularly ethnography of language policy and linguistic landscapes) and forensic linguistics. He has taught at the most prestigious institutions including the University of Manchester, University of Haifa, Humboldt University (Berlin), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, University of Hamburg, Sorbonne University (Paris), Cambridge University, La Trobe University (Melbourne), University of Konstanz, National Centre for Scientific Research (Paris), Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig), Central European University (Budapest), etc. He worked as an editor for the journal Romani Studies (1999–2017) and the series Language Contact and Bilingualism and he was one of the editors of the book series Sondersprachenforschung and Empirical Approaches to Language Typology (EALT) as well as editor of the journal Mediterranean Language Review,

Professor Matras served as a co-editor and editor of several book series and collections of papers and co-author and author of numerous works and monographs, among which are some of the monographs dedicated to the Romani language and Romani communities: Romani. Linguistic Minorities in Europe Online (2022), The Palgrave Handbook of Romani Language and Linguistics (2020), The Romani Gypsies (2015), Romani in Britain: The Afterlife of a Language (2010), Romani: A Linguistic Introduction (2002).