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Actress, director, and drama teacher Franciska Farkas visited our institute in January to perform her monodrama “Levél Brad Pittnek” (Letter to Brad Pitt) and to hold a workshop on identity which she usually holds for Roma children. Many thanks, Franciska, it was an honour!

Ugri-Mugri evening at the international Finno-Ugric winter school in Vienna ❤️

Last week, our dearest Hungarian lecturer Mária Kelemen received the Bálint Csűry Award from the Hungarian Linguistic Society for all the great work she has been doing. Our warmest congratulations!

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: en.lipp.uni-muenchen.de/application/in…

Our doctoral researcher Daria Zhornik giving a talk on Northern Mansi revitalization efforts at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/)

In the summer semester, we offer a new course on Saami languages in time and space. The registration for LMU students is already open in LSF: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/aktuelles/nach…

Our research colloquium is back! The first meeting will take place on Monday, 28 April, at 14:15, in room A 014 (HG). We will have a 45-minute talk by Lorenz Staudacher on Infinitive constructions in Northern Mansi. The Zoom link is the same (please, send us a message to get it).

This is a reminder that today Ekaterina Aplonova (CNRS‒LLACAN) will give another guest lecture on the ComPLETE database entitled "Methodological approaches to complex predicates 2: from database to corpus". 14:15–15:45 CEST in room A 014 – or contact us for a Zoom link!

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!

On Monday, 26 May, Gwen Eva Janda (LMU Munich) will give a talk on Bridging Linkage in Ob-Ugric: state of research, research aspects and outlook. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

Dear all, unfortunately, the talk on Monday, 26 May, has to be cancelled. Please stay tuned for further updates.

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: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…

Greetings from Riga where we are presenting our research at the conference on Areal linguistics and language contact of Uralic languages (sites.google.com/view/lcu2025/h…). Our institute is represented by Margarita Wolf, Johannes Hirvonen, Ksenia Shagal, Jeremy Bradley, and Gwen Eva Janda

On Monday, 23 June, Daria Zhornik and Lorenz Staudacher (LMU Munich), who work with Northern Mansi, will give a talk on Valery Chernetsov's archive: processing, research and future prospects. 14:15–15:45 CEST, A 014 in the main building – or contact us for a Zoom link!

Daria Zhornik and Lorenz Staudacher gave a talk in our colloquium yesterday about their work with Northern Mansi materials from Valery Chernetsov's archive. Several students have been processing the folklore narratives and analysing them in their course papers and BA theses.

We are very happy to announce that Jeremy Bradley, previously a member of our team (2014–2018), has returned to our institute and is once again the person to contact for matters of study coordination: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/personen/wiss_…

On Monday, 30 June, at 14:15–15:45 CEST, Jeremy Bradley will talk about where he is, how he got there, and where he is going: "How we got here": Uralic languages of the Volga Region and Siberia since WWI – Structural change contextualized. finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…

On Monday, 7 July, Tobias Weber (Technical University of Liberec) will give a talk with the title "Languages are GLAM: On the role of memory institutions in philologies and humanities". 14:15–15:45 CEST, in A 014 in the main building and in Zoom: finnougristik.uni-muenchen.de/forschungsschw…