The following keynote speakers have accepted the invitation to present at the conference:

Patrice Dabrowski, Harvard University (USA)
Talk: 'Discovering' the Carpathians: Episodes in Imagining and Reshaping Alpine Borderland Regions

Gerd Hentschel, University of Oldenburg (Germany)
Talk: Mixed Speech in Language Contact between Chaos and Systematicity: The Case of Byelorussian "Trasjanka"

Mikhail Iampolski, New York University (USA)
Talk: Revolution and Self-Organization of Reality: Vertov and Eisenstein

Marek Łaziński, University of Warsaw (Poland)
Talk: The prefix za- in Polish against the Slavic backround. Between ingressivity and resultativity

Karel Oliva, Czech Academy of Sciences (Czech Republic)
Talk: Recent Developments in Part-of-Speech Tagging in Czech

Danko Sipka, Arizona State University (USA)
Talk: Developing a Bilingual Dictionary: Principles and Implementation

Galin Tihanov, University of Manchester (UK)
Talk: Slavic Studies in the Age of Transnationalism