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Masha in Armenia

August 14, 2023 Linguistics

A teacher on the left, smiling at the camera, back to the blackboard, while university students in the background gaze awkwardly around.

Teaching at the Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy.

July 31 through August 11, Masha Polinsky is teaching a course on bilingualism and heritage languages at the 6th Yerevan Academy for Linguistics and Philosophy, an annual summer school organized in part by Oxford's Daniel Altshuler, and hosted by the American University of Armenia in the capital city of Yerevan, one of the world's oldest continually inhabited cities, founded as Erebuni in 782BCE.