On March 26–27, 2026, Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University hosted the international conference “Linguistic Landscape at the Intersection of Media, Discourses, and Educational Technologies.” The conference aimed to facilitate the exchange of ideas and research findings on linguistic landscapes, understood as the representation of different languages in public spaces and discursive practices.
The study of linguistic landscapes involves an expanding range of methodological approaches to analysing the relationship between language, society, and language policy through the lens of language choice, symbols, and representations in public and educational spaces. The conference addressed issues such as research methodology in sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, text and discourse studies, language variation in multilingual cities and regions worldwide, urban toponymy, and related topics.
MSPU’s Foreign Languages Institute was represented by presentations from Prof. Olga A. Suleimanova (Dr. habil. in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Irina V. Tivyaeva (Dr. habil. in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Irina M. Petrova (Dr. habil. in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Kseniya S. Kardanova-Biryukova (Dr. habil. in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Anna A. Vodyanitskaya (Dr. habil. in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Lyudmila A. Borbotko (PhD in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Marina A. Fomina (PhD in Philology), Assoc. Prof. Viktoria V. Nikitina (PhD in Philology), and Assoc. Prof. Vera G. Karavaeva (PhD in Philology). FLI faculty members also chaired conference sections and roundtable discussions.
We would like to thank the conference organisers for fruitful discussions, new ideas, and the pleasure of professional communication.
Photo: Lyudmila Borbotko