Committees

Evolang XII Local Committee
Head of LC: dr Sławomir Wacewicz
Head of LC: dr hab. Przemysław Żywiczyński, prof. UMK
dr Roland Mühlenbernd
Monika Boruta
Ewa Król
Marek Placiński
Marta Sibierska
Julia Trzeciakowska
evolang2018 [at] umk [dot] pl

 

Evolang XII Honorary Hosting Committee
Michał Zaleski, Mayor of Toruń
Piotr Całbecki, Marshal of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Mikołaj Bogdanowicz, Voivode of the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
Prof. dr hab. Andrzej Tretyn, NCU Rector Magnificus 
Mirosław Graczyk, Starost of Toruń District
Prof. dr hab. Mirosława Buchholtz
Prof. dr hab. Włodzisław Duch
dr hab. Przemysław Nehring, prof. UMK
Prof. dr hab. Bogusław Pawłowski

 

 

Evolang Permanent Committee
Permanent Committee

Evolang XII Scientific Committee
Christine Cuskley
Molly Flaherty
Hannah Little
Luke McCrohon
Andrea Ravignani
Tessa Verhoef 

 
Local organization
Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń (NCU), founded in 1945, is the biggest university in northern Poland and is outstanding both in terms of its scientific potential as well as the courses of study on offer, forms of education, and numbers of students and graduates. It consistently ranks among top 5 Polish universities.
Center for Language Evolution Studies (CLES) at NCU, has been active in the field of language evolution research since its foundation in 2012. It has also organized numerous conferences and outreach events related to language evolution.
The Department of English at NCU was established in 1945 but already in 1952 was closed for political reasons (in the Stalinist era English studies were viewed as potentially subversive). It was re-opened in 1986 and the first graduates completed their studies in 1992. In 2011 the Department was moved to a new site, one of the most modern university buildings in Poland.