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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=DE link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'>Hei Johanna,<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'>voisitko välittää oheiset tiedot ura-listalle?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'>Terveisin<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'>Marko<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=FI style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span lang=EN-GB>„Finnish Language and Literature in the European Context – Historical Prospects and Present Challenges“<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>90 years ago the first lectorate for Finnish was established in Germany. The chair of Fennistics at Greifswald university is celebrating this remarkable anniversary with an international symposium at Greifswald from October the 6.-7. this year. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-US style='color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>In the year 1921 the first lectorate for the Finnish language in Germany was established at Greifswald university. In 1976 the first German chair of Fennistics followed. Yet Greifswald lead the way on the fields of the investigation of Finland already much earlier. In this context especially the activity of the Greifswaldian historian Friedrich Rühs should be mentioned, who was the first to write a complete survey of Finnish history and applied geography in 1809. The thematic framework of the conference on the occasion of the anniversary is therefore consciously set rather widespread. It contains as well questions of language policy and literary policy as topics of science history. In the centre of the latter the cultural relations between Finland and Germany and the history of the investigation of Finland as an object of research are being discussed. The focus of language and literary policy at the conference is turned to a comprehensive perspective. Exactly ten years after the „Year of Languages“, which was proclamed by the European Union in 2001 in order to support the diversity of languages in Europe and make it visible as a cultural wealth, the role and the challenges of Finnish and Estonian languages, as well as the literatures of Finland and Estonia in a united Europe are being targeted from different points of view. In accordance to the occasion of the conference there will also be enough time to discuss problems of the intermediation of Finnish language and culture. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The conference will be framed by an exhibition of ancient Finnish printings, which can be found in the archives of the university’s library of Greifswald. Over 170 years Finland and Western Pomerania were both ruled by the Swedish sovereign (1637-1815). In this time many printed matters in Finnish found their way to Greifswald, many of them only as unsewed printing sheets. Those old printings are put in a central place in the exhibition, the exhibits of which are marking exemplarily important development phases of Finnish literary and book history.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The official languages of the conference are German and English in order to make it possible for non-fen<a name="_GoBack"></a>nists and young students of Finnish studies to benefit of the conference.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Please sign in for the conference until 26.09.2011 at </span><span style='color:#4F81BD'><a href="mailto:fennistik@web.de"><span lang=EN-GB style='color:#4F81BD'>fennistik@web.de</span></a> </span><span lang=EN-US><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The participation at the conference is for free.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The organisational committee <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Mikko Bentlin, Thekla Musäus and Marko Pantermöller<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>On 8.10.2011 the teachers of Finnish of the German speaking countries are assembling for their annual workshop at the Nordic Compartment of Greifswald University.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>The symposium and the lecturers’ workshop are being supported by the Finnland-Institut in Deutschland, CIMO, the Finnish embassy in Berlin and the Consulate General of Finland in Hamburg.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>