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Ledio Hala
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Linguist focused on the standardization of Albanian, blending corpus analysis with language policy. Lecturer in Regensburg and Zurich, passionate about heritage language education and raising the profile of Albanian in academia.
It’s going to be an inspiring discussion about heritage languages and how we teach them!
#universitätregensburg #heritagelanguage #heritagespeakers #forumforheritagelanguages
#seeffield
November 10, 2025 at 2:51 PM
"This is the first full-length biography of the extraordinary Enver Hoxha, the communist dictator who ruled Albania for nearly half a century." Artan R. Hoxha
Preorder:
reaktionbooks.co.uk/work/enver-h...
July 7, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Frauenemanzipation in islamischen Ländern.

Vorstellung der Zeitschrift Ariadne mit Herausgeber Vojin Saša Vukadinović und den Autor:innen Fathiyeh Naghibzadeh, Lumnije Jusufi, Linn Vertein und Andi Benl

🗓️ Donnerstag, 5. Dezember, 19:30 Uhr
📍im Bajszel, Berlin Neukölln
November 24, 2024 at 9:12 AM
This kind of feedback is the fruit of our work at SeeFField — the initiative that made possible the very first and still the only university-level courses for Albanian heritage speakers in the German-speaking world.
We’re not just filling a gap — we’re changing the game.
Good to see that the University of Regensburg is including both standard and dialectal Albanian in its classes. I know of many dropping out of Albanian classes because standard Albanian was not immediately relevant to them when dealing with relatives/in-laws from Kosovo.
July 3, 2025 at 6:36 PM
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Good to see that the University of Regensburg is including both standard and dialectal Albanian in its classes. I know of many dropping out of Albanian classes because standard Albanian was not immediately relevant to them when dealing with relatives/in-laws from Kosovo.
July 3, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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In my latest piece for the seeFField blog, I reflect on some of the big questions relevant for Area Studies too: public engagement, AI and heritage languages, and career prospects of young scholars in Area Studies. Feel free to comment:
seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de/not-to-sit-i...
(Not) to sit in an ivory tower with a nice balcony: Highlights from the 2nd Southeast European Studies Forum (Prishtina, 19-22 March 2025) - seeFField
From March 19 to 22, partners from our network met at the University of Prishtina to discuss some key issues affecting Area Studies: How do we preserve linguistic diversity in the age of AI? And what ...
seeffield.app.uni-regensburg.de
July 3, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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We’re proud to announce the first-ever symposium dedicated to Albanian as a heritage language:
“Language Ideologies and Attitudes of Albanian Heritage Speakers Worldwide: Approaching a New Field”

🗓️ May 26, 2025 |
📍 Kaufmanns-Gewölbe im Haus der Begegnung, Hinter der Grieb 8, 93051 Regensburg
May 19, 2025 at 12:22 PM