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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · 4h

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 · 14d

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 · 23d

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 · 28d

(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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Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social · Aug 28

Every August on my vacation, I teach linguistics to school students in the best place on earth with the best people around me. Narva-Jõesuu 💙🧡💛

Sunset above the sea in Narva-Jõesuu, Estonia

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 22

The LMU delegation at #cifu14 was so big that we did not fit into one picture, but here are at least some of us on various occasions. Many thanks to the organizers for this wonderful congress!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 21

Opening the symposium on Building diachronic corpora for minority languages at Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum. The symposium is organized by Jeremy Bradley, Daria Zhornik, Ksenia Shagal (Munich), Timofey Arkhangelskiy, Alexandre Arkhipov (Hamburg), and Trond Trosterud (Tromsø).

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Aug 4

The Institute of Uralic Studies at LMU Munich is seeking applications for a position of a lecturer in Hungarian. It is a full-time permanent position with a starting date in February 2026. The deadline for applications is 20 September 2025. Please spread the word! job-portal.lmu.de/jobposting/a...

Lecturer in Hungarian (m/f/x)

job-portal.lmu.de

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jul 23

The third bilingual Hungarian–German volume of Dezső Kosztolányi's works translated by our students and our wonderful Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen together with a writer and translator Akos Doma was presented yesterday at the Consulate General of Hungary in Munich!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jun 12

Greetings from Riga where we are presenting our research at the conference on Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages. Our institute is represented by Margarita Wolf, Johannes Hirvonen, Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social, Jeremy Bradley @jeremue.bsky.social, and Gwen Eva Janda.

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

On Monday, 16 June, Irina Burukina (University of Florida) will give a talk on Inflected infinitives in Mari: Clitics, subject agreement, or a secret third thing. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or using the Zoom link available here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungssc...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · May 8

On Monday, 12 May, Aigul Zakirova (University of Potsdam) will give a talk on Necessity constructions in Hill Mari: a diachronic corpus perspective. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Mar 12

The Class of Language at the Graduate School of Language & Literature, LMU Munich is offering a PhD-scholarship for international applicants (DAAD), starting winter semester 2025/2026. The deadline for applications is 1 April 2025:
www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/...

Application - Class of Language - LMU Munich

www.en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de

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Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social · Feb 24

My main personal achievement at the Finno-Ugric winter school in Vienna was discovering a long-eared owl with three fluffy chicks right in front of the city hall 🦉🦉🦉

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Feb 19

If you want to learn more about Mansi, you can listen to the episode of "A Language I Love Is..." with Daria: shows.acast.com/64e0e1540b9d...

Mansi and Daria Zhornik | A Language I Love Is...

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Feb 19

Our amazing doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik is teaching a Northern Mansi course at the Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies in Vienna #2025WinterSchool

Finno-Ugristik Wien @finn-ugr-wien.bsky.social · Feb 17

Māńśi lātəη! Mēn χańiśtan nē Darjan χańiśtawew. #2025WinterSchool

Daria Zhornik, PhD student at LMU Munich, is giving a presentation on the Mansi language. She is currently showing maps illustrating the geographic distribution of Ugric varieties.

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Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social · Feb 6

If you
1) have received your PhD in the last five years,
2) have a project in mind that you can imagine doing with me,
3) would like to spend 1–3 months in Munich in 2026,
please let me know, as the Center for Advanced Studies at LMU might have an opportunity for you:
www.cas.lmu.de/en/programs/...

Call for Applications: Short-term Visiting Fellowships in 2026

The Center for Advanced Studies at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) is a forum for intensive interdisciplinary academic exchange.

www.cas.lmu.de

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Feb 1

Our fantastic intern Tuuli Savela is giving a talk on Sámi mythology at the LMU Campus Day right now. If you have missed it, the good news is that in the summer semester we will also have a course on Sámi languages in time and space by our doctoral researcher Ilia Egorov.

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Philipp Krämer @phkraemer.bsky.social · Dec 13

Universities all over Europe are cutting language programs and closing the doors to the world. We want to get a more complete picture: where, when, why?
If you know of any such cases, please tell us (and share the link with your language and linguistics contacts)!
elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/13...

Door of a subway seen from the inside closing automatically with a flashing red light

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Ksenia Shagal @ksushagal.bsky.social · Jan 29

The University of Helsinki is looking for a lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics: jobs.helsinki.fi/job/Helsinki...

University lecturer in Finno-Ugric linguistics

jobs.helsinki.fi

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jan 28

In today's #map_of_the_month rubric, we have a map of places in Karelia and southern Finland whose names feature the Proto-Saami root meaning 'stone'. In this and many other cases, toponyms found in a region can tell a lot about its earlier inhabitants.

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jan 21

The Chuvash (Turkic) word akka 'elder sister' has made its way into many Uralic languages, so we decided to include it in our #etymology_of_the_month rubric!

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jan 17

On Monday, 20 January, Maria Reile (University of Tartu) will give a talk in our research colloquium on Referential devices in Estonian and its adjacent languages. 14:15–15:45 CET, M 105 in the main building. The Zoom link and the abstract are here: www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/studium_lehr...

Gastdozentur von Dr. Maria Reile - Lehrstuhl für Finnougristik - LMU München

www.finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de

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Johanna Laakso @johannalaakso.bsky.social · Jan 8

Jan Dlask, specialist of Finnish and Finland-Swedish literature, was one of the victims of the mass shooting at the Charles University in Prague in December 2023. Now, his colleagues have founded a memorial fund which will continue his legacy in Nordic studies. Donate here:

Dr Jan Dlask Memorial Fund

nf.cuni.cz

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Institut für Finnougristik, LMU München @finnougristiklmu.bsky.social · Jan 7

Is it time to get back to work already?! This sudden turn of events calls for some mirativity! Luckily, some Uralic languages excel at expressing it #structure_of_the_month

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