Call for Papers: Languaging Crises conference in Helsinki in March 2026!

Organized by @languaging-crises.bsky.social

@minneva.bsky.social , @hannalimatius.bsky.social, @jenniraikkonen.fi

You can also find ESSE on BlueSky! Follow @essenglish.bsky.social to read about upcoming events in Europe!

Call for Papers:

NJES special issue on Teaching literature in Nordic L2 English
classrooms

Expressions of interest by August 31, 2025.

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Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics.

The closing date for applications is August 18th.

We would like to congratulate Prof. Dr. Emerita Terttu Nevalainen for being awarded honorary doctorate by VUB.

"[Nevalainen] broke new ground with her quantitative and corpus-based approaches to language change and gave a voice to forgotten linguistic communities in the history of English. "

Welcome to an expert forum on "Language and Identity in Online Interactions" on May 28 (Zoom).

P. Faber "The Language of Love Fraud"
C. Tebaldi "Semiotic Analysis of Tradwives' Digital Propaganda"

@coocho.bsky.social and @sofiaruediger.bsky.social

www.isle-linguistics.org/about/news#i...

All members of FINSSE are also members of the Nordic Association of English Studies (NAES). That means FINSSE members are also cordially invited to NAES's General Meeting, taking place on 10 May at Åbo Akademi. More information on the meeting has been sent through our mailing list.

If you're going to the NAAS conference in Turku, the deadline for this prize has been extended to May 10.

REMINDER: M.A. and Ph.D. students can submit their papers for consideration for the Orm Øverland Prize (deadline April 30, 2025). Please find more information about the award on the NAAS website: sites.google.com/view/nordica...

The University of Oulu is looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor or Full Professor in Language use and comprehensive security.

Deadline for applications is 6 May 2025.

📢 The Language Centre and the Doctoral School of the University of Helsinki are together inviting applications for  a permanent position of University Lecturer in English from 1 August, 2025.

Deadline for applications is 17 April.
@helsinki.fi

The Language Centre at Tampere University is seeking a University Instructor of English. This is a permanent position, starting 1 August 2025.

Apply by 16 April!

📢 University of Oulu has an open position for a university teacher in English in the Research Unit for Languages and Literature.

The position is for a fixed term, August 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026. The deadline for applications is April 17, 2025.

Our Annual General Meeting will be held today at 16:15! All FINSSE members are welcome to join us. The official invitation and the link to the meeting has been sent through our mailing list.

Juho Ruohonen will defend his dissertation entitled "The English Mandative Alternation – a Grammatical Analysis with a Multivariate Corpus Study based upon British English" on Friday, March 14 at 1 pm.

Place: Sali 1, Metsätalo, University of Helsinki