Last updated by kprzemek on 2020-07-05. Originally submitted by kprzemek on 2019-10-02.
dr hab. Wojciech Sowa, prof. UAM
University professor
Head of Laboratory for National and Foreign Projects
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 222
Phone: (+48) 61 829 1014
E-mail: wojciech.sowa@amu.edu.pl
Websites / Profiles::
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Degrees
- M.A. in Classics and Indo-European Linguistics, Kraków, 1998
- Ph.D. in Ancient Greek Linguistics, Kraków, 2002
- D.Litt. in Linguistics of Classical languages, Bratislava, 2010
Research interests
- Indo-European Linguistics
- Indo-European Culture and Religion
- Ancient Greek
- Ancient Greek dialects
- Mycenaean studies
- Old Celtic
- “fragmentary attested languages”
- Phrygian and the ancient languages of the Balkans
- History of Slavic
- Polish and Slovak dialectology
- Medieval dialects of German
- Linguistics substrates in Central Europe
- Onomastics
- Patristics and Patrology
Teaching experience
- General linguistics
- Historical-comparative I-E. linguistics
- Greek and Latin linguistics
- Epigraphy
- Ancient Greek and Byzantine literature
- Balkan linguistics
Scholarships
- University of Vilnius, 1996
- University of Vienna, 1997-1998
- University of Cologne, 1999-2000
- University of Vienna, 2000
- FNP START 2001, 2002
- University of Vienna, 2003-2004
- School of Oriental and African Studies London, 2004, 2005
- School of Oriental and African Studies London, 2009
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- “Colloquium Pruthenicum Secundum”, Mogilany, 1996
- I. International Conference on Lithuanian Studies “Lithuania: History, Nation, Culture”, Kraków, 1997
- “Colloquium of Young Linguists”, Bratislava, 1997
- “Colloquium of Young Linguists”, Bratislava ,1998
- “The East and Aegea. Language, culture, religion”, Warszawa, 1999
- “Etymological Symposium”, Brno, 1999 (Czech Republic)
- “Table ronde sur les dialectes grecs”, Nancy, 2000 (France)
- Sprachkontakt und Sprachwandel XII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Halle/Saale 2000
- 28. Österreichischen Linguistiktagung, Graz, 2000
- Die altgriechischen Dialekte, ihr Wesen und Werden, Berlin, 2001
- 29. Österreichischen Linguistiktagung, Klagenfurt, 2001
- Table ronde sur les dialectes grecs, Nancy, 2002
- Etymological Symposium, Brno, 2002
- Jono Kazlausko diena: Istorines gramatikos dalykai, Vilnius, 2002
- 30. Österreichischen Linguistiktagung, Innsbruck, 2002
- 24th. Annual Meeting on Greek Linguistics, Thessaloniki, 2003
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2003
- 31. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna, 2003
- Namenkundliche Tagung Kals am Großglockner, 2004
- Deutsche Orientalistentag, Halle/Saale, 2004
- XIII. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Kraków, 2004
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2005
- Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective, Cambridge, 2005
- 32. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Graz, 2005
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2006
- Slavic Etymology Today, Belgrad, 2006
- 33. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Klagenfurt, 2006
- Aspekty jazykovedy v klasickej filologii, Bratislava, 2007
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2007
- Cultural, linguistic and ethnological interrelations in and around Armenia, Salzburg, 2007
- 34. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Innsbruck, 2007
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2008
- XIV. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft, Salzburg, 2008
- Early European Languages in the Eyes of Modern Linguistics, Brno, 2008
- 35. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna, 2008
- Brněnské indoevropeistické kolokvium (Brno Indoeuropean Colloquium), Brno, 2009
- 36. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Salzburg, 2009
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2010
- The Indo-European Verb, Los Angeles, 2010
- Languages of fragmentary attestation in the Mediterranean Basin during the 1st millennium BCE: Inscriptions, Epigraphic Genres and Socio-Linguistic Analysis, Rouen, 2012
- Recent Research on Ancient Galatia in the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Waterloo (Canada), 2014
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2014
- 41. Österreichische Linguistiktagung, Vienna, 2014
- Namenkundliche Tagung, Kals am Großglockner, 2015
- Phrygian Lands Over Time: From Prehistory to the Mid-1st Millennium AD, Eskişehir, 2015
Guest lectures
- University of Bratislava, 2002
- University of Cologne, 2003
- University of Cambridge, 2004
- University of Cambridge, 2006
- University of Innsbruck, 2006
- University of Belgrade, 2007
- University of Freiburg (i.Br.), 2008
- University of Thessaloniki, 2008
- University of Prague, 2009
- University of Cambridge2009
- University of Cologne, 2009
- University of Brno, 2009
- École Normale Supérieure Paris, 2010
- University of Rouen, 2010
- University of Regensburg, 2010
- University of Brno, 2010
- University of Bochum, 2010
- University of Frankfurt a.O., 2013
- University of Zaragoza, 2015
- University of Vienna, 2016
Guest professorships
- University of Münster, 2009 (winter semester), 2010 (winter semester), 2013 (winter semester)
- University of Erlangen, 2018 (summer semester)
Reviewing, editorial activity
- external reviewer for the FNP Ventures programme, 2008
- member of the Lithuanian Research Council (LMT) panel of experts 2012, 2016, 2017, 2019
- member of the Rumanian Research Council panel of experts 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018
- member of the Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange panel of experts 2019
- reviewer for COST, 2015-
- reviewer for the Ministry of Higher Education, 2018 -
- reviewer for the ERC, 2018 -
- reviewer for the European Commission (MSC Actions), 2018 -
- Advisory board member and referee: Paleohispanica. Revista sobre lenguas y culturas de la Hispania Antigua (2015 - ); editorial board member Graecolatina et Orientalia (2006 - )
- peer review activity for the following journals: Indogermanische Forschungen, Graeco-Latina Brunensia, Listy filologické, Studia Hercynia, Eos, Lingua Posnanensis, PLOS One
Professional organizations
- Indogermanische Gesellschaft (member)
Conference organisation
- “Colloquium Pruthenicum Tertium”, Zakopane, 2001 (co-organizer)
- “Greek and Latin from an Indo-European Perspective 3”, Bratislava, 2010 (main organizer)
- “Languages of fragmentary attestation in the Mediterranean Basin during the 1st millennium BCE: Inscriptions, Epigraphic Genres and Socio-Linguistic Analysis”, Rouen (co-organizer)
- International Scientific Conference “Bibliometrie”, Regensburg, 2015 (co-organizer)
Science management
- 2011-2019 Coordinator for the Arts and Humanities at the NCN
- 2011- member of the Scientific Board of the EU Joint Research Project HERA (Humanities in
- the European Research Area)
- 2012-2015 member of the program Academy of Scientific Management (Foundation of Polish
- Science)
- 2011 visiting stay at the ERC, Brussels
- 2012 visiting stay and training at the FWF (Vienna Austria)
- 2012-2015 Member of the Working Group on Research Integrity w Science Europe (Brussels)
- 2016- Chair of the Scientific Board of the EU Joint Research Project HERA (Humanities in the European Research Area)
Research projects
- EU ISCH COST Action IS1407 „Ancient European Languages and Writings”, Polish Team Leader, member of Management Committee, 2015-2019
Honours
- Honours Jagellonian University Rector’s award for outstanding research results, 2009
Publications