Program

Program, updated 24th at 11:00.

Wednesday 23rd of August: 18:00 Informal get-together at Sori Taproom, opportunity to network also with paricipants of the NOS-HS Workshop Sustainable linguistics: theories and methods.

Thursday 24th of August
	Lecture Room 4	Lecture Room 7
8:00–	Registration in the lobby of the Lecture Room 4
8:45–9:00	Opening Words (Susanna Virtanen, Csilla Horváth, Ilona Kivinen)
9:00–10:30	Keynote 1. Pigga Keskitalo: Supporting Linguistically Conscious Teaching in Endangered Sami Languages Context
10:30–11:00	Coffee in the lobby of the Lecture Room 4
	Session 1. Chair: Susanna Virtanen	Session 2. Chair: Csilla Horváth
11:00-11:30	Rießler, Michael: A half century of Kildin Saami orthography
11:30-12:00	Asi Talatini, Frank: Improving literacy by developing more resources in the ‘Uvean language	Føreland, Line Reichel and Äärelä-Vihriälä, Rauni:  Enhancing language acquisition through game- and land-based learning in Sámi classrooms
12:00-12:30	Edygarova, Svetlana: Using sociolinguistic knowledge in teaching of minority languages (on the example of the Udmurt and Komi languages)	Hammine, Madoka: Indigenous language learning and emotions in Ryukyuan language reclamation: An observation of new speakers
12:30–13:30	Lunch break
	Session 3. Chair: Svetlana Edygarova	Session 4. Chair: Outi Tánczos
13:30-14:00	Kivinen, Ilona: The teaching materials at the university level North Saami teaching	Leisiö, Larisa: Indigenous peoples of Northern Siberia: a hundred-year path of school education and identity transformation
14:00-14:30	Langgård, Per: Providing comprehensible input where comprehensible input is unreachable: Teaching polysynthetic Greenlandic L2	Maryniak, Joanna and Jablonskji, Artúr: Legal, social and practical aspects of teaching the Kashubian language on the example of the bilingual school Naja Szkòła in Wejherowo
14:30-15:00	Woldesenbet, Petros Woldegiorgis: Mother tongue education and language shift: The Paradox of Kafi Noonoo	Virtanen, Susanna and Horváth, Csilla: Лылыӈ ла̄тыӈ – Living Language. Beginners’ Mansi textbook for foreigners
15:00-15:30	Coffee in the lobby of the Lecture Room 4
15:30–16:00	Äärelä-Vihriälä, Rauni: Strengthening the use of Sámi languages in a multilingual Sámi kindergarten
16:00-16:30	Woldesenbet, Petros Woldegiorgis: Bonga University: The 6 Years Journey
18:00	Symposium Dinner at Sunn (Aleksanterinkatu 26, 2nd floor). For pre-registered participants only.

 

Friday 25th of August
	Lecture Room 4	Lecture Room 7
8:00–	Registration in the lobby of the Lecture Room 4	Lecture Room 7 available for appointments and informal discussions.
9:00–10:30	Keynote 2. Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska: Bilingual education as a challenge for minority language revitalization and maintenance. The case of Upper Lusatia, Germany
10:30–11:00	Coffee in the lobby of the Lecture Room 4
	Session 5. Chair: Csilla Horváth
11:00-11:30	Ijas, Silja: Reviving Ainu through te ataarangi method on Zoom	Lecture Room 7 available for appointments and informal discussions.
11:30-12:00	Benini Moézia de Lima, Bianca: (Re)construction and (re)creation of Indigenous languages: a comparative-critical analysis
12:00-12:30	Gruzdeva Ekaterina: Revitalization of Amuric languages: Learning from experience
12:30-14:45	Lunch break
14:45-15:30	University of Helsinki, Main Building, Unioninkatu 34  , Lecture Room U4072 (4th Floor) (please note that this is another building). COFFEE AVAILABLE BEFORE THE PANEL! Panel discussion: On the role of scholars in supporting minority language education initiatives. In cooperation with the NOS-HS Workshop Sustainable linguistics: theories and methods (https://blogs.helsinki.fi/linguisticsandsustainability/ws3-theories-and-methods). Participants: Nicole Dołowy-Rybińska (Polish Academy of Sciences), Pigga Keskitalo (University of Lapland), Hilde Sollid (UiT the Arctic University of Norway) & Sami Honkasalo (University of Helsinki).