Interview: Dr Natalia Volvach, Center for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University

Natalia Volvach works at the intersection of semiotic landscapes, critical sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography. In her research, she explores the ramifications of the Crimean annexation on language and space. Specifically, she illuminates the ways in which the complex histories of conflict over the Crimean Peninsula are materialized in ‘absenced’ semiotic landscapes, both in the form of material effects in landscapes and as discursively realized in the narrated memories of individual participants. She has recently defended her PhD thesis entitled “From Words to Voids:
Absencing and Haunting in Crimean Semiotic landscapes” at the Centre for Research on Bilingualism at Stockholm University.
Guest: Dr Natalia Volvach
Hosts: Prof Amiena Peck and Amy Hiss
Copyright:
The music for the Intro and Outro of this podcast was sampled from the song Gangsta performed by Quentin Williams, Adam Haupt and Imraan Cupido aka Imie vani Delf published on the album #InthekeyofB that accompanies the book Neva Again: Hip Hop Art, Activism and Education in post-apartheid South Africa (edited by Adam Haupt, Quentin Williams, H Samy Alim and Emile Jansen). The music was composed by Eddie Strings and Bradley Lodewyk. The chorus, performed by Naftali Solomons. On Guitar, Eddie Strings. On Bass, Matthew Lenting. And on Percussion, Bradley Lodewyk. Following the "fair use" clause under Copyright law, with no intended infringement of this law, and with permission granted by the owners of the song, the sampled audio of the song is used for academic purposes and as such all rights belong to the respective owners.
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