Monograph: 3
Dialect dictionary: 2 (co-author)
Book chapter: 52
Journal article: 30
Conference talks and presentations: 75 (international conferences: 52, including 24 abroad: Banska Bystrica, Bratislava, Hrodna, Kaunas, Leibniz, Lviv, Mainz, Maribor, Minsk, Moscow, Praga, Tallinn, Vilnius, Zagreb)
International mobility: Sveučilište u Zagrebu (2019, 2022); Univerzita Karlova (2021); Akademie věd České republiky (2021), Vilniaus universitetas (2023), Syddansk Universitet (2024), Tallinna Ülikool (2024)
MPhil 1995: Yanka Kupala State University of Grodno, Slavistic, Polish and Belarusian philology, cum laude
PhD 2015: in Linguistics, specialization in Polish linguistics, Philological Faculty of the Pedagogical University of Cracow, cum laude
PhD 2016: candidate in philological sciences, specialization in Slavic linguistics, Higher Attestation Commission of the Republic of Belarus
EXPERIENCE FIELD
border studies, contact linguistics, dialectology, sociolinguistics, linguistic ethnography, Slavic comparative studies, lexicography, archivistics
The linguistic contacts of the Slavic-Baltic borderland; the Polish-Belarusian borderland: dialects, culture, identity, linguistic relationships; the petty nobility of the border Grodno region; the linguistic and cultural heritage of Vandalin Shukevich and Eliza Ozheshko; archival materials in the study of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s linguistic, historical, and cultural heritage, as well as the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
INDIVIDUAL RESEARCH PROJECTS
2021 – NCN Miniatura 4, 2020/04/X/HS2/00306, Epistolography heritage of Vandalin Shukevich as a source of comparativie linguistic research
2018 – Thesaurus Poloniae XIX, Fellowship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland for foreign researchers. Senior Programme: research on museum objects and archive materials from Belarus, forming part of the collection of the Museum of Ethnography in Krakow for publication on material and spiritual cultural heritage of western Belarus.
2016 – Thesaurus Poloniae XV, Fellowship of the Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland for foreign researchers. Senior Programme: linguistic, ethnographic and anthropological research on the funerary practices of the borderlands of Poland and Belarus
GRANT RESEARCHER
2021 – 2022: “Forest Germans (Głuchoniemcy, Walddeutsche): the past and present of forgotten local communities in the Carpathian Foothills”, National Science Centre, Opus 18, 2019/35/B/HS3/01274, University of Warsaw, PI: Marcin Solarz. Individual research task: acquisition and analysis of archival materials (Ethnographic Museum, Krakow) within the scope of the research topic.
2020-2024: „Slovenske korijenske univerzalije”, Sveučilište u Zagrebu (Croatia), PI: Neda Pintarić. Individual research task: selection of appropriate lexemes of the Russian and Ukrainian languages, including dialectal ones, and phraseologisms where these lexemes are components, as well as the editing of the Polish and Old Slavic lexemes.
2017- 2023: “Grodno region as a symbol of multicultural borderland. Research and education based on MEK collections and field research”, Severyn Udziela Ethnographic Museum in Cracow , PI: Katarzyna Konczewska
2016 “Social journalism (vol. II) and Collected letters (vol. XI) by Eliza Orzeszkowa. Critical edition”, National Science Centre, Opus 5, 2013/09/B/HS2/02945, Institute of Literary Research of the Polish Academy of Sciences, PI: Iwona Wiśniewska. Individual research task: query in the Historical Archives of Grodno (Belarus), identification of unknown Eliza Orzeszkowa’s documents.
Elected member of the editorial team, section editor of the journal “Українська полоністика” (“Ukrainian Polonistics”), Zhytomyr Ivan Franko State University
Language editor (Belarusian) of the journal “Onomastica”
Translator of the Book Institute in Kraków (Belarusian, Russian), fiction and scientific literature: https://www.instytutksiazki.pl/zagranica,4,indeks-tlumaczy,33,katarzyna-konczewska,153.html
THE AWARDS
2011 Diploma for the 1st place in the “scientific article/essay” category for two articles in the 4th edition of the competition for theses and scientific publications on Polish issues, organized under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Belarus
2010 Diploma granted by the University of Silesia for the 1st place and title of Eagle of Polish Orthography in the international Polish dictation in the category for “Polish language teachers abroad”
2010 Diploma for the 3rd place in the “scientific article/essay” category, 2nd edition of the competition for theses and scientific publications on Polish issues, organized under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Belarus
2008 Honours diploma in the 1st edition of the competition for theses and scientific publications on Polish issues, organized under the patronage of the Ambassador of the Republic of Poland to the Republic of Belarus
2006 Diploma of Recognition of the “Polish Community” Association “for involvement in activities for the development of Polish education in Belarus”
THE INTERNATIONAL FOREIGN CONFRENCES (last 5 years)
August, 22-24, 2024. International conference GLOBALISING SOCIOLINGUISTICS 3: LANGUAGE AND INEQUALITY, Tallinn, Tallinn University School of Humanities. Theme: Languages, cultures, and self-identification on the Polish-Belarusian borderland: a case study of the micro area in the historic Grodno region.
October, 19-20, 2023. International Scientific Conference “Slavic Dialects in the Age of Digital Technologies. Dialect Sources and Their Current Processing”, Praha, Slovanský ústav Akademie věd České republiky. Theme: Historical lexical material as a tool for research of the contact dialectal zones of the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian borderland
September 7-9, 2023, International Scientific Conference “Values in the linguistic picture of the world of Poles and Lithuanians. Cultural aspects of textualism”. Vilnius University. Theme: Folk magic and demonology in the linguistic worldview of the Polish-Belarusian-Lithuanian border
May 18-19, 2023. 6th International Scientific Conference Slavic Scientific Reflections. Infrastructure for Speech Research in the Humanities and Language Technologies, University of Maribor, Faculty of Arts. Theme:
Анализ спонтанной устной речи как способ исследования стратификационной вариативности языковых кодов на польско-белорусском пограничье.
October 6-7, 2022. 27th International Scientific Conference “(Language) variability, change and standatization”, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Theme: The Scientific Heritage of the Wandalin Szukiewicz as Novel Research Material for Studying the Slavic-Baltic Language Community in the Lithuanian-Belorussian-Polish Borderland.
September 6-9, 2022. International Scientific Conference “Komparativnoslavističke lingvokulturalne teme 2. Pragmatika i frazeologija u komparativnoslavističkom okružju” [Comparative Slavic linguocultural themes 2. Pragmatics and phraseology in a comparative Slavic environment], Filozofski fakultet Sveučilišta u Zagrebu, Odsjek za zapadnoslavenske jezike i književnosti, Katedra za poljski jezik i književnost, Theme: About the paragog in dialects.
August 1-5, 2022 r. International Scientific Conference Methods XVII, Department of English and Linguistics Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Session: Borders, Dialects & Standard Varieties, Theme: Cross-Border language contacts in the Polish-Belarusian border region in the 21st century (abstract: Special thematic session, Methods XVII Mainz, (Dia)Lects in the 21 st Century: “Borders, Dialects and Standard Varieties” by Stefan Dollinger, Curt F Woolhiser, Reglindis De Ridder, Esteve Valls, and Katarzyna Konczewska)
November 22-25, 2021 r. GERMANIA SLAVICA versus POLONIA RUTHENICA in the context of medieval Europeanization, Uniwersytet Rzeszowski, Deutsch-Polnische Wissenschaftsstiftung, Leibniz-Institut für Geschichte und Kultur des östlichen Europa, Theme: Like a phoenix rising from the ashes. Poles in Western Belarus through the eyes of a linguist.
October 12-13, 2021. International Scientific Conference “Межкультурное и межъязыковое взаимодействие в пространстве Славии” [“Intercultural and Interlanguage Interaction in the Space of Slavia”], Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. Theme: Dialectological field research in the areas with a complicated sociolinguistic situation: specifics, methodological approaches, prospects. Based on the materials of modern expeditions on the Polish-Belarusian border.
October 7-8, 2021. International Scientific Conference “VERTYBĖS LIETUVIŲ IR LENKŲ PASAULĖVAIZDYJE III. PRAEITIS IR DABARTIS KALBOJE IR KULTŪROJE” [“Values in the linguistic images of the world of Poles and Lithuanians III. The past and present in language and culture”], Vilnius University. Theme: “Everyday life of the multicultural community of the Polish-Belarusian borderland in the linguistic memory of indigenous people (based on field research materials)”.
August 22-27, 2021. 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences. Theme: Toponymic riddles of the Grodno region through the prism of dialectology and a political conjuncture.
June 16-17, 2020. International Scientific Conference “XXIII Круглый стол по славянской диалектологии” [XXIII Round Table on Slavic Dialectology], Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Theme: Cross-border Polish-Belarusian linguistic contacts based on field research materials.