[Ura-list] FinnFest virtual webinar: Multilingual Finland

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear All,

the FinnFest annual event of the American Finns in 2022 offers webinars with lectures in English about the languages of Finland, for a general interested audience in the evenings (European time) of February 19th and 26th, featuring:

Johanna Laakso: Everything You Ever Heard about the Finnish Language Might Be Wrong
Jan-Ola Östman: The Past, Present, and Future of the Swedish Language in Finland

Coppélie Cocq: The Saami Languages: Alive and Kicking
Kimmo Granqvist: Finnish Romani: The Current Sociolinguistic Situation
Helka Riionheimo: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed: Karelian, Russian, and Estonian as Minority Languages in Finland
Friederike Lüpke: Vanha ryijy uusilla kuiduilla: Weaving an Old Rug with New Yarn [about the language repertoires of African migrants to Finland]

The programmes with the registration link (registration required but free!) are at https://finnfest.us/webinar-programs . 

Feel free to forward this information to students or interested laypeople.

Best
jl
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Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung Finno-Ugristik
Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7
A-1090 Wien
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at • http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/
Project ELDIA: http://www.eldia-project.org/ 







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