University of Helsinki
The preliminary program includes classes, tutorials, and plenary lectures. Changes are still possible!
All onsite teaching events of the school take place in the Language Center, Fabianinkatu 26. All online teaching events happen in zoom: https://helsinki.zoom.us/j/62388460200?pwd=aHduWWw3b1NVOVlzZ01sa3lWdkt5Zz09 (passcode 639104)
Day 1 (29.05.2023), Room 405
9.00 – 9.15: Opening of the Summer School
9.15 – 10.15: Class 1: Introduction to Samoyedic languages (Olesya Khanina)
10.45 – 12.00: Class 2: From Proto-Samoyedic to modern languages (Valentin Gusev)
12.00 – 13.30: lunch break
13.30 – 14.30: Joint visit to the National Library of Finland
14.45 – 16.00: Class 3: Nganasan phonology in synchronic and diachronic aspect (Kaisla Kaheinen)
16.00 – 16:30: coffee break
16.30 – 18.00: Plenary lecture: The South Samoyedic languages Selkup and Kamas: shared vs. distinct features (Gerson Klumpp)
18.30: Self-paid social gathering at a nearby restaurant
Day 2 (30.05.2023), Room 406
9.00 – 10.15: Plenary lecture: Origin of the Samoyedic-speaking peoples (Juha Janhunen, online)
10.45 – 12.00: Class 3: Nganasan phonology in synchronic and diachronic aspect (Kaisla Kaheinen)
12.00 – 14.00: lunch break
14.00 – 15.15: Afternoon with Sayan Samoyedic 1, lecture: The Kamas text corpus (Gerson Klumpp)
15.15 – 16.00: coffee break
16.00– 17.15: Afternoon with Sayan Samoyedic 2, tutorial: Working with older data (Gerson Klumpp)
Day 3 (31.05.2023), Room 115
9.00 – 10.15: Class 1: Introduction to Samoyedic languages (Olesya Khanina)
10.45 – 12.00: Class 2: From Proto-Samoyedic to modern languages (Valentin Gusev)
12.00 – 14.15: lunch break
14.15 – 15.45: Afternoon with Nenets 1, lecture: Samoyed languages from the Nenets point of view (Tapani Salminen, online)
15.45 – 16.15: coffee break
16.15 – 17.45: Afternoon with Nenets 2, tutorial: Forest Nenets and Tundra Nenets among the Samoyed languages (Tapani Salminen, online)
Day 4 (1.06.2023), Room 115
9.00 – 10.15: Class 1: Introduction to Samoyedic languages (Olesya Khanina)
10.45 – 12.00: Class 2: From Proto-Samoyedic to modern languages (Valentin Gusev)
12.00 – 13.30: lunch break
13.30 – 14.45: Class 3: Nganasan phonology in synchronic and diachronic aspect (Kaisla Kaheinen)
15.00 – 16.00: Online tutorial: Linguistic mapping for Samoyedic (Yuri Koryakov)
16.00 – 16.45 coffee break
16.45 – 17.45: Online tutorial: Linguistic mapping for Samoyedic (Yuri Koryakov)
18.30: Summer school dinner (“Konstan Möljä”, Hietalahdenkatu 14)
Day 5 (2.06.2023), Room 115
9.00 – 10.15: Class 1: Introduction to Samoyedic languages (Olesya Khanina)
10.45 – 12.00: Class 2: From Proto-Samoyedic to modern languages (Valentin Gusev)
12.00 – 13.30: lunch break
13.30 – 14.30: Online tutorial: The Hamburg Samoyedic corpora (Alexandr Riaposov & Elena Lazarenko)
14.45 – 15.45: Online tutorial: The Hamburg Samoyedic corpora (Alexandr Riaposov & Elena Lazarenko)
15.45 – 16.30: coffee break
16.30 – 18.00: Plenary lecture: Narrating life and self in Tundra Nenets oral tradition (Karina Lukin)
Intended learning outcomes of the School include (i) knowledge of typical structural and sociolinguistic properties of the Samoyedic languages, of their peculiar features as seen both from the Uralic and the typological perspective, (ii) an understanding of historical development of Samoyedic, from structural and sociolinguistic perspectives, (iii) practical knowledge of map-making for nomadic languages of Russia, (iv) a skill of reading a glossed text in a Samoyedic language and scanning it for particular linguistic phenomena.