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S P E A K E R S
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L E C T U R E R S
LUCIA MOLNÁR SATINSKÁ
Lucia studied Comparative Literature,
English-American Studies, and Slovak
Studies at Charles University in Prague
(2005–2011). She completed a year-long
program at the Balassi Institute in Budapest
(2009/2010). In 2011, she joined the Ľ. Štúr
Institute of Linguistics of the Slovak
Academy of Sciences as a PhD candidate,
under Prof. Slavomír Ondrejovič, and
earned her PhD in 2015 with a dissertation
on the linguistic situation and policy in
Slovakia. She later became the head of the
Department of Contemporary Language
(renamed the Department of
Sociolinguistics in 2018) and a member of
the editorial board of Kultúra slova. Since
2021, she has been a member of the Central
Language Council and the Committee on
Equal Opportunities, and since 2022, a
member of the Board of the Ľudovít Štúr
Institute of Linguistics.
Her research focuses on multilingualism in
Slovakia, linguistic landscapes, language
policy, and gender-sensitive language. She
also promotes linguistics, Slovak,
Hungarian, and other minority languages in
Slovakia.
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ADRIAN BORKA
Adrian Borka was born into a Romanian
minority family in the Republic of Serbia. He
completed elementary school in his mother
tongue, Romanian. Adrian graduated from
the Faculty of Law with a bachelor's and
master's degree from universities in Novi
Sad and Timișoara (Romania), studying in
Serbian, Romanian, and English.
He is currently a PhD student at the Faculty
of Law in Novi Sad. For 16 years, he has
worked in the Provincial Government of
Vojvodina as a civil servant and expert on
minority rights and the use of
languages/scripts in the Autonomous
Province of Vojvodina. Adrian is also an
active legal translator and serves as an
official court interpreter. He is married, has
two children, and lives and works in Novi
Sad, Republic of Serbia.
