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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Dear colleagues,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The

Institute of Finno-Ugric/Uralic Studies (IFUU) at the University of Hamburg is

pleased to announce the workshop </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">“<b>Variation

and Change in Endangered Languages</b>”</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">, to be held in <b>Hamburg</b>

on <b>1–2 October 2026</b>.</span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> <span lang="EN-US">Please see

the short call for papers below or the full version at </span></span><a href="https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/forschung/tagungen/variation-and-change.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);background:white">https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/forschung/tagungen/variation-and-change.html</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">. We look forward to receiving

your abstracts!</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Best regards,</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Maria

Brykina<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"><a href="https://www.slm.uni-hamburg.de/ifuu/forschung/tagungen/variation-and-change.html">Workshop: Variation and Change in Endangered Languages</a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Date:

01-Oct-2026 - 02-Oct-2026</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Location:

Hamburg, Germany</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Contact

Email: <a href="mailto:vacel.slm@uni-hamburg.de" target="_blank">vacel.slm@uni-hamburg.de</a></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Submission

Deadline: 28-Feb-2026</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal">

<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Notification of acceptance: April 1, 2026</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></p><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">The workshop aims to consider <span>structural variation and change</span> in

endangered languages depending on various linguistic and extralinguistic

factors, such as:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">– Structural features of an endangered language</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">– Intensity of contact and duration of language

shift</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">– Factors associated with language policies and

language attitudes, including language oppression, educational policy and

revitalization</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">– Factors related to a speech community, such as

its size, dialectal diversity, geographical dispersity, mobility,

accessibility of communication between community members<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Other relevant questions are:<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">– <span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Simpli<span style="background:white">fication vs.

complexification of language structure in language shift. </span></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Structural change or

individual variation. </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black">– </span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">O<span style="background:white">utcomes of language

contact vs. language shift.</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Within the workshop, we hope

to represent linguistic and sociolinguistic diversity as much as possible.

Case-studies in endangered languages of various areas and families, as well as

comparative studies are welcome.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstract submission</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstracts should be anonymous. They should not exceed

one page (excluding examples, figures, and references).</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Abstracts should be submitted to the conference email

address </span><a href="mailto:vacel.slm@uni-hamburg.de" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(17,85,204);text-decoration:none">vacel.slm@uni-hamburg.de</span></a><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black"> as PDF files. Please indicate the following

information in the body of your email:</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> <span style="color:black">your

name(s);</span> <span style="color:black">title of your paper;</span> <span style="color:black">your affiliation(s);</span> <span style="color:black">your

email(s);</span> <span style="color:black">if you need an invitation (e.g. for

a visa).</span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Online

participation and attendance (via Zoom) is possible, although in-person

participation is preferable.<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">There is no registration fee.

If your abstract has been accepted, you do not need to register in advance.</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Invited speaker</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Dr. Ekaterina Gruzdeva (University of Helsinki)</span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Organizers</span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0cm;text-align:justify;line-height:normal"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;background:white">Beáta Wagner-Nagy, Vlada

Baranova, Natalia Stoynova </span></p></div>