2025 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies

The 2025 Winter School of Finno-Ugric Studies was held at the University of Vienna between 17 and 22 February 2025 (Monday through Saturday).

The winter school consisted of the following teaching activities:

• Language courses (students chose one when registering):
  • Mansi (taught by Daria Zhornik, LMU Munich)
  • Karelian (taught by Johanna Laakso, University of Vienna)
•  Workshop on quotative strategies (taught by Denys Teptiuk, University of Tartu)
•  Workshop on Bible translations as data for comparative studies (taught by Ksenia Shagal, LMU Munich & Jeremy Bradley, University of Vienna & Johannes Hirvonen, LMU Munich & Katarína Džunková, Charles University/Prague)
• Guest lectures:
  • Rogier Blokland (Uppsala University): The very first text in Saami: a new discovery
  • Riho Grünthal (University of Helsinki): Causative alternation in the Uralic languages
  • Gerson Klumpp (University of Tartu): Discourse particles in Uralic languages
• A student colloquium