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Essi Mäkinen, our student on the study track of General Linguistics in the the Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities Master’s programme, gives an interview on her study experience with us.

The Helsinki Diversity Linguistics Group (HALS) organizes a workshop Innovating methodology and theory in linguistic fieldwork on 11 June 2024 in room 4, Metsätalo, University of Helsinki.

The program includes talks and round table discussions on linguistic fieldwork methodology, collaboration with native speakers, as well as ethical issues.

The closing symposium of the ERC Starting Grant project GramAdapt led by Kaius Sinnemäki is organised on 30-31 May 2024 in lecture halls 4 and 6, Metsätalo, University of Helsinki. The theme of the conference is Language contact and linguistic adaptation.

On top of talks by the GramAdapt team members, and a poster session, the program features talks by the following invited speakers: Rena Torres-Cacoullos (Pennsylvania State University), Ad Backus (Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences) Stefan Dedio (University of Zurich & University of Helsinki), Messineo, Cristina & Paola Cuneo (National Scientific and Technical Research Council (CONICET) and Buenos Aires University), Francesca Moro (University of Naples L’Orientale), Admire Phiri (University of Porto), Frederik Hartmann (University of North Texas) & Johanna Nichols (University of California, Berkeley), and Mark Ellison (University of Cologne).

The event is partly co-organized with the Doctoral Programme in Languages (HELSLANG) whose summer conference shares some sessions with this symposium.