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Interdisciplinary human past and quantitative Uralistics

Blended Intensive Programme (BIP) course at the University of Turku, 21–25 November (+ travelling days ) 2022.

The course is funded by the Erasmus+ mobility programme.

The mobility of the participants is realized as Erasmus student or staff mobility. This requires a bilateral agreement between the universities involved.

Participants: Students and PhD students; staff
Subject: Human past in the Uralic language speaker area
Aims:
Lectures on multidisciplinary studies of human past in North-Western Eurasia (holistic past, genetic past, archaeology, linguistic past).
Familiarizing with typological and spatial data of Uralic languages.
Hands on training on R-program and QGis-program.
Conducting a qualitative and quantitative study on one of the Uralic languages (or their contact language).
Learning to operate in interdisciplinary context.
Hybrid model in teaching:
-       Before course training of main concepts via Zoom-lectures and videos. Incl. ensuring that R and QGis do run in everyone’s computer and partipants are ready to use them during the intensive week.
-       Intensive week 21–25 November 2022 in Turku. Lectures 9–12 and tutorials 13–16.
-       Course work preferably in interdisciplinary teams. Themes selected before the course and studies prepared during the course and after that.
-       After the course, couple of Zoom-meetings to present the course works.

To whom:
Students of Finno-Ugristics, computational linguistics, archaeology, population genetics and geography.
Extent: 5 ECTS

Language: English

Place: University of Turku