First project meeting

On March 5th 2020 the first team meeting for our NCN-financed project took place. We are planning six team meetings in total over the period of three years, in March and September each year, in Poznań, Warsaw, Rennes and Cottbus. This first meeting was organized by Michael and Joanna in Poznań, with Nicole visiting from Warsaw and Jeanne from Rennes.

Our first team meeting was devoted to getting to know each other, planning the project's working packages (WPs) in more detail, discussing the first article that we are going to write together, as well as planning conference participation for 2020.

We were lucky enough to manage to meet right before the global epidemic of COVID-19 forced many countries to introduce drastic restrictions to travel and public life. Unfortunately, many of the conferences we were planning to participate in have already been cancelled or postponed, among them the Third Cultural Linguistics International Conference, Budapest, Hungary (June), the Tenth Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment (June) and the Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis Across Disciplines, Huddersfield, UK (July).

We are unable to say at this point to say what will happen with the conferences planned for the second half of this year.