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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">International
Conference organised by Indigenous Studies</span></b><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">to celebrate the <i>Year of
Indigenous Languages </i></span></b><span
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><b><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Árran – Ecology of Indigenous
languages</span></b><span
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in"> 19.–20.9.2019</span><span
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<p style="text-align:center" align="center"><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">of Helsinki, Lecture hall 1, Main
Buildin</span><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">g, Fabianinkatu 33</span><span
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windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">Join this conference to discuss
with renown indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and artists
and to learn about Indigenous languages in the view of current
socio-political, economic, and environmental changes. The
speakers are coming from several continents to Helsinki. The
event is a part of official program of the Year of Indigenous
Languages declared by the UN and Unesco. In Northern Sámi
language, ‘Árran’ means hearth/fireplace, and we take it as an
analogy to discuss communally Indigenous languages.
Metaphorically, sharing stories and narratives, verbal art, ways
of speaking, and their symbolism fuels the warmth and guarantees
the continuation of the Árran.</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;color:#201F1E"></span></p>
<p style="text-indent:.5in;caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">The key concept of the conference,
language ecology, matches contemporary ideas of interaction,
relationality, and socialization with the world. It can also be
understood as an engagement and interaction with the environment
where people use language. Indigenous peoples have often
demonstrated that for them languages are a mode of experiencing
and relating to the world (also in a very material sense). At
the conference we aim to address to what extent indigenous
languages do things in relation to a given language ecology in
which ideologies, socio-political, and economic forces as well
as non-hum<span style="background:white">an agencies play a big
role. </span></span><span
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<p style="text-indent:.5in;caret-color: rgb(32, 31, 30)"><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;background:white">The panels focus
on Indigenous languages and the environment, morphology of
indigenous arts and crafts, indigenous literature, as well as
revival of indigenous languages. Keynote speakers of the
conference ar</span><span
style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;border:none
windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in">e Prof. Gunvor Guttorm (Sámi
University of Applied Sciences, Norway) and Prof. Anthony K.
Webster (University of Texas at Austin, USA).</span></p>
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