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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

The fountain is fountaining, the semester is semestering, the leaves are leaving (well, not quite yet), and the research colloquium here at LMU's Institute of Finno-Ugric Studies is about to begin! Mondays, 14:15–15:45 in the main building or in Zoom: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Unsere Freundinnen und Freunde in Oulu zeigen in der Ausstellung "Letters to Santa", was Briefe an den Weihnachtsmann alles erzählen können. Dahinter steckt ein spannendes Forschungsprojekt. Wer zwischen dem 26. Oktober und dem 15. November in Oulu ist: unbedingt vorbeischauen!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Finnisch, Estnisch, Ungarisch und Mansi – verwandt, aber wie? Unsere neue Veranstaltungsreihe "Kaum sichtbare Verwandtschaften" in Kooperation mit der Internationalen Forschungsstelle für Mehrsprachigkeit startet am 22. Oktober. Kommt vorbei! www.sprachlit.lmu.de/ifm/de/aktue...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Everyone working on computational approaches to Uralic languages – if you are planning to present a paper at IWCLUL 2026 (the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages), the submission deadline is 11 October: acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.h...

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ACL SIGUR : IWCLUL 2026

Special Interest Group for Uralic Languages

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

On Monday, 13 July, Denis Rakhman and Suvi Schrank will give a talk in our colloquium on Purposive and aspectual semantics interaction: the cases of Finnish and Russian. 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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LMU Finno-Ugric Colloquium, Summer 2026

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Herzlichen Glückwunsch an Suvi, Jeremy, Paula und Lena! Gestern haben sie mit ihrem kleinen Theaterstück "Hearing fish die since 1770" am Science Slam der Münchener Universitätsgesellschaft teilgenommen und den 3. Preis gewonnen 🎉🎉🎉

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

On Monday, 22 June, Prof. Attila Benő (Babeș-Bolyai University) will give a talk in our research colloquium on Language planning in minority context. 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Next week, 8–11 June, our institute is going to host several lectures by Miina Norvik from the University of Tartu. The first one, on the continuity and change of structural features (8 June, 14–16 CEST) can also be followed online: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 28/05/2026

On Monday, 1 June, Ilya Egorov (LMU Munich) will give a talk in our colloquium entitled "The Formation of the Saami Continuum: Typological Features". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

On 9–11 December 2026, our institute, supported by the Munich Center for Linguistics, will host the 11th International Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Uralic Languages (IWCLUL). Send in a paper and/or spread the word! acl-sigur.github.io/iwclul2026.h...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

On Monday, 18 May, Dr. Sabine Grasz (University of Oulu) will give a talk in our research colloquium entitled "Code-Switching Deutsch-Finnisch in deutsch-finnischen Tandemgesprächen". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme are here: copius.eu/lmu-colloquium/

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LMU Finno-Ugric Colloquium, Summer 2026

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 30/04/2026

We are starting NOMAC — a three-year project within which we will create a diachronic corpus of Northern Mansi, an endangered Uralic language spoken in Siberia gepris.dfg.de/gepris/proje... Join us on 4 May at 14:15 for a presentation (in person or online): www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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DFG - GEPRIS - Northern Mansi Corpus (NOMAC): A century and more of Northern Mansi in a diachronic corpus

NOMAC (Northern Mansi Corpus) will create an openly accessible diachronic corpus of a critically endangered Uralic minority language of Siberia. It will make ...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Congratulations to our (former) doctoral researcher Riku Erkkilä on successfully defending his doctoral dissertation on the semantics of Udmurt spatial cases! (That's him in the upper left corner!) The dissertation is available here: helda.helsinki.fi/items/7d4859...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 23/04/2026

On Monday, 27 April, Levente Máthé (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) will give a talk entitled "Remarks on Relativization in Meadow Mari – a corpus-based approach". 14:15–15:45 CEST, the Zoom link and the colloquium programme is here: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 22/04/2026

Great news! Riku Erkkilä will defend his dissertation "The semantics of Udmurt spatial cases" on 25 April 2026 starting at 9:15 CEST (10:15 in Helsinki). The defence can be followed online at helsinki.zoom.us/j/62092701703. The dissertation is available here: hdl.handle.net/10138/630195.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

Our research colloquium is back! The first talk is by Prof. Dr. Beáta Wagner-Nagy (University of Hamburg), Das Leben ist ein Geben und Nehmen: zwei Ereignisse und ihre Verwendung in den samojedischen Sprachen. 13 April, 14–16, in person and on Zoom. The program is here: www.copius.eu/lmu-colloqui...

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Arbeitsstelle Kleine Fächer @kleinefaecher.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Kleines Fach rund um eine große Sprachfamilie: @jeremue.bsky.social ( @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social & @lmu.de ) porträtiert die #Finnougristik! Mehr unter www.kleinefaecher.de/beitraege/bl... #Uralistik #FinnoUgricStudies #kleinefaecher

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

This week, we have been hosting Idaliya Fedotova, a doctoral researcher from the University of Eastern Finland, who came to our institute for a research visit and consultations on Khanty. We are always happy to have guests, so please reach out if you would like to visit us!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 03/03/2026

Registration for the International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference (IFUSCO) is open until 31 March. The conference itself will take place in Helsinki from 11 to 15 May 2026. Here is the link to the conference website: ifusco.siulary.fi

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Our second workshop, which focused on sociolinguistically informed linguistic fieldwork, was organized by Maria Khachaturyan and Maria Konoshenko. We studied linguistic repertoires of the winter school participants and even managed to discover some contact influence in verbal valency!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

The two invited lectures of the winter school were given by Timofey Arkhangelskiy, who created a tiny but real corpus for us during his lecture, and Viktória Tóth, who introduced us to bibliotherapy and made us reflect on why we read and how we write.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

This afternoon, we have a literary translation workshop with Maximilian Murmann, our alumnus who translates Finnish and Estonian books into German. Currently discussing how to translate obscene place names!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Celebrating the Estonian Independence Day with another day of Surgut Khanty classes 💙🖤🤍

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

The winter school has started with Zsófia Schön's Surgut Khanty course and a game of hangman based on Khanty phonetics!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

The weather forecast predicts 15 degrees and sunshine next week, but Munich is clearly ready for WINTER school as of tonight! We look forward to welcoming all the participants here soon!

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Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Transalpine Typology Meeting is coming to Munich this year (26–28 November)! We invite submissions for presentations on topics related to linguistic typology and comparative linguistics. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 April 2026. Spread the word! sites.google.com/unipv.it/tra...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 03/02/2026

We are very happy to announce that Viktória Tóth has just joined our institute as the new lecturer of Hungarian 🎉🎉🎉

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

On Monday, 2 February, our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov will give a talk entitled "Recent advances in the study of Kildin Saami: a field report". 14:15–15:45 CET, the Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

Unser Institut nimmt am Samstag am Campustag teil. Wenn ihr überlegt, Finnougristik zu studieren, kommt zwischen 10 und 15 Uhr an unserem Infostand im Lichthof des Hauptgebäudes vorbei! www.lmu.de/de/studium/b...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Unfortunately, the talks planned for next week (26–30 January) have to be CANCELLED. We hope they will take place in the summer semester. Stay tuned! www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Kolloquium und Vorträge - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

On Monday, 26 January, Miina Norvik (University of Tartu) will give a talk on Continuity and change of structural features: the example of southern Finnic. 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building or in Zoom. Further information here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 17/01/2026

On Monday, 19 January, Maria Aristova will give a talk entitled "Linguistic situation among Forest Nenets of Pur district: Language shift in a multilingual community". 14:15–15:45 CET, the Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

On Wednesday, 21 January, at 18:15, we are organizing an event on Indigenous Languages at the Intersection of Society, Identity and Journalism: Komi in Contemporary Russia. Schellingstraße 3, S 007. Come and spread the word! www.sprachlit.lmu.de/mcl/de/aktue...

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Podiumsdiskussion

Indigenous Languages at the Intersection of Society, Identity and Journalism: Komi in Contemporary Russia

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

On Monday, 12 January, Natalia Kuznetsova (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) will give a talk on the mystery of word-final obstruent voicing in Lower Luga Ingrian (Finnic) and how genetics might help. 14:15–15:45 CET, the Zoom link: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Kolloquium WiSe 2025/26 - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 01/12/2025

We are hiring a doctoral candidate to work in our project that will create a diachronic corpus of Northern Mansi. It is a 65% position (E13 TV-L) for 2 years 9 months starting in spring 2026. Please spread the word! www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschung/fo...

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PhD position in a project on Northern Mansi - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 27/11/2025

On Monday, 1 December, at 14:15–15:45 CET, our students and colleagues Ilya Egorov, Letizia Hroß, Alexander Veselov, and Réka Mizsei will give a talk on creating electronic corpora for Ume Saami and Ter Saami. The Zoom link can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Kolloquium WiSe 2025/26 - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

The 2026 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies will be held at LMU Munich between 23 and 28 February 2026 (Monday through Saturday). The registration form for in-person and online participants can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/infuse/ankue...

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14th Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies (Munich) - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 21/11/2025

Vom 24.–27. November hält Tünde Blomqvist (Universität Uppsala) vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie. Der Besuch der Vorträge ist im Rahmen der Lehrveranstaltung „Aktuelle Probleme der Hungarologie“ anrechenbar: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

On Monday, 17 November, at 14:15–15:45 CET, Sofya Ganieva (University of Zurich) will give a talk on Planning passive sentences in a passivizing language based on her eye-tracking experiments with Northern Khanty speakers. The Zoom link is here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 31/10/2025

On Monday, 3 November, Daria Zhornik (LMU) will give a talk summarizing the results of her doctoral dissertation. The title of the talk is "Discourse organisation in Northern Mansi: new findings". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

Herzhaft-süßes must leib, eine malerische Moorlandschaft oder die minimalistische Musik Arvo Pärts – das und vieles mehr möchten die ExkursionsteilnehmerInnen im Rahmen ihrer Abschlusspräsentation mit Interessierten teilen. 31.10.2025, 14.00, Veranstaltungsraum Philologicum.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

On Monday, 27 October, Jeremy Bradley (LMU Munich) will give a talk entitled "Seeing the forest for the trees: Uralic bibliography in and for the 21st century". 14:15–15:45 CET, A 016 in the main building. The Zoom link can be found here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Kolloquium WiSe 2025/26 - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Vom 20. bis 23. Oktober wird Erika Erlinghagen (Universität Wien) bei uns vier Vorträge zu aktuellen Themen der Hungarologie halten: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

We are starting the winter semester with memories of Estonian summer. On 13 October, 14:15–15:45 CEST, Tiia Palosaar will report on the excursion to Estonia, and Ksenia Shagal will present her pet project on the linguistic landscape of Narva-Jõesuu www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

The Nobel Prize in Literature for 2025 is awarded to the Hungarian author László Krasznahorkai, “for his compelling and visionary oeuvre that, in the midst of apocalyptic terror, reaffirms the power of art.” www.nobelprize.org/prizes/liter...

A portrait of László Krasznahorkai and the motivation of the Swedish Academy for awarding the prize (Ill. Niklas Elmehed © Nobel Prize Outreach)

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 25/09/2025

The time before the beginning of the semester is perfect for all kinds of academic exchange, both for our students and for our teachers. Greetings from ELTE Budapest where Ksenia Shagal is giving several lectures on linguistic typology and Finnish pragmatics this week!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

In August, a group of our students learning Estonian went on a week-long excursion to Estonia. In the winter semester, we will have two presentations related to the trip, one on 13 October in the colloquium and another one on 31 October. Stayed tuned!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Mʉβəɬi juːɣət sɐːjnə? Manər jiwət sājt? Mi van a fák mögött? Wenn Sie solche Fragen beschäftigen, Antworten erfahren Sie im kommenden Semester beim Kurs "3-in-1: Chantisch-Mansisch-Ungarisch kompakt!" von Zsófia Schön!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 11/09/2025

(Wiesen)marisch an der LMU, direkt von den Leuten, die mit der Sprache arbeiten: im kommenden Semester bieten Jeremy Bradley & Johannes Hirvonen einen Sprach- und Strukturkurs zum Marischen an. Keine erforderlichen Vorkenntnisse!

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