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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Call for papers</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Dear colleagues,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">We are pleased to announce the
<a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/" title="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/">
1st Symposium on Indigenous Minority Language Acquisition (SIMILA)</a> to be held on
<b>24th and 25th August 2023 at the University of Helsinki, Finland. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The Symposium aims to bring together researchers and specialists of indigenous minority language learning, and to open discussion on the challenges of developing teaching
and learning activities for indigenous minority languages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The symposium aims to offer multisited discussion fora, we invite panels, papers, workshop-like presentations and discussions as well as tutorials of already developed
learning and teaching methods, materials and computational solutions. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Within this framework, the conference welcomes the proposals addressing, but not limited to, the following topics:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">reports on indigenous minority language learning activities
<o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xcontentpasted0" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">producing teaching or self-teaching materials for indigenous minority languages <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xcontentpasted0" style="color:black;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">producing language technology tools for indigenous minority languages
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">activities aiming to revitalise indigenous minority languages
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">theoretical and methodological challenges regarding the learning, teaching or revitalisation of indigenous minority languages
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The symposium focuses primarily on Arctic indigenous minority languages, but accepts proposals discussing other language families or geographic areas as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Invited speakers: </span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Nicole Do³owy-Rybiñska, PhD (dr. hab.) (Polish Academy of Sciences) <o:p></o:p></span></li><li class="xcontentpasted0" style="color:black;mso-list:l1 level1 lfo2;background:white">
<span style="font-size:12.0pt">Prof. Pigga Keskitalo (University of Lapland) <o:p></o:p></span></li></ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Promoting multilingualism and the use of indigenous minority languages is priority of the symposium. The working languages of the symposium are English and indigenous minority
languages. We encourage participants to produce the written materials in English and give the presentation in any indigenous minority language – or vice versa. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Abstract submission</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">: Abstracts of 300 words (max) with key words can be submitted online using this<a href="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/122077/lomakkeet.html" title="https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/122077/lomakkeet.html">
form</a>. The deadline for submission is<b> 15 April 2023. </b><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Registration and participation fee:
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Conference fee is 50 EUR. <o:p>
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<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white;font-kerning:none"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Best regards</span></span><span class="xeop"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"> </span></span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="xparagraph" style="background:white;font-kerning:none"><span class="xnormaltextrun"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">The organisers:</span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Segoe UI",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Susanna Virtanen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Csilla Horváth<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Ilona Kivinen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="mailto:simila23@helsinki.fi" title="simila23@helsinki.fi">simila23@helsinki.fi</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><a href="https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/">https://blogs.helsinki.fi/simila2023/</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Susanna Virtanen, FT, dos.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Apurahatutkija</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Koneen säätiö</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">/ Helsingin yliopisto</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black;background:white">Suomalais-ugrilaiset kielet</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Susanna Virtanen PhD, title of docent</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Grant-funded researcher</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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University of Helsinki</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;color:black">Finno-Ugrian languages</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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