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Wojciech Sowa

Last updated by kprzemek on 2020-07-05. Originally submitted by kprzemek on 2019-10-02.

dr hab. Wojciech Sowa, prof. UAM

University professorFoto Imie Nazwisko

Head of Laboratory for National and Foreign Projects

Department of Older Germanic Languages

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