Finno-Ugristik Wien

Photo of a big lecture hall where the opening is taking place.

Today, Hungarians celebrate their national day, Estonians celebrate the 34th anniversary of the restoration of independence. Finno-Ugricists of all nations spend this day at the 14th Congressus Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum in Tartu. #cifu14 (For more information, see cifu14.ut.ee .)

Milyen volt a finnek és nyelvük útja a magyarok őseihez képest?

Sampsa Holopainen, unser ehemaliger Mitarbeiter, berichtet über die Vorgeschichte der finno-ugrischen Sprachen:
tudas.hu/milyen-volt-...

Finno-Ugricists with a relatively recent PhD, please consider applying for a 3-year position in Vienna. Everybody else, please spread the word!
jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Poster with picture of stage curtains and audience. Text: Drama, theatre and politics: Art and ideologies, art and civil activity in 20th, 21st centuries / Ildikó Sirató, PhD / 21. Mai 2025...

Welcome to the guest lecture of Dr. Ildikó Sirató (Budapest) on Wednesday, May 21, from 18 to 20 in our lecture hall 1 (University campus 7.2):
DRAMA / THEATRE AND POLITICS.

IFUSCO XL IFUSCO XL

It's starting: IFUSCO XL – klein aber fein! Welcome, students from all over the world of Finno-Ugric studies!
ifuscoxl.univie.ac.at

Mitarbeiter*in gesucht! PostDoc-Stelle Ungarische Literaturwissenschaft – weitere Infos hier: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Mitarbeiter*in gesucht! PostDoc-Stelle Ungarische Literaturwissenschaft – weitere Infos hier: jobs.univie.ac.at/job/Universi...

Gastvortrag Prof. Dr. Tamás Forgács Phraseologische Einheiten als Mittel der Wortschatzerweiterung / Frazeológiai egységek mint a szókincsbővítés eszközei

Herzliche Einladung zum ungarischsprachigen Vortrag von Tamás Forgács am 10. April um 18:00:
finno-ugristik.univie.ac.at/aktuelles/de...

Meghívó / Einladung: Az Osakai Egyetem Magyar Tanszékének professzora, dr. Mari Okamoto vendégelőadására / zum Gastvortrag von Dr. Mari Okamoto, Professorin der Abteilung Hungarologie an der Universität Osaka...

Einladung zum Gastvortrag „Japan: Traditionen in der heutigen Gesellschaft // Japán: Hagyományok a mai társadalomban" von MARI OKAMOTO (Osaka)
8. März 2025, 18:30, Finno-Ugristik (Campus Hof 7.2),
in ungarischer Sprache mit deutscher Übersetzung.

Informationen: brigitta.pesti@univie.ac.at

A porcelain bear is sitting in front of a computer, filling out a registration form. The name "Oš" is entered into the field "Given name", all other fields are empty.

Die Anmeldung für die IFUSCO XL (22.-26. April), die diesjährige internationale finno-ugrische Studierendenkonferenz, ist offen!

Registration for IFUSCO XL (22 - 26 April), this year's International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference, is open!

ifuscoxl.univie.ac.at

And with that, the winter school has come and gone. Follow this account to not miss the next one being announced!

Kamilla Kaiser (Szeged) giving a talk

Kamilla Kaiser (Szeged), 'The Udmurt Come up with a new word project in the light of language planning and management', last but most certainly not least, talking about people making up words - and how that ends up being received by the community. And that concludes our colloquium! #2025WinterSchool

Alexander Veselov (Munich) giving a talk

Alexander Veselov (Munich), 'Uralic contacts with Tocharian', talking about connections that go beyond one of the foundational scholars of Tocharian establishing a brewery in Estonia. #2025WinterSchool

Orsolya Sild (Budapest) giving a talk

Orsolya Sild (Budapest), 'Compliments in the Tatar language
spoken in Finland and Estonia', receiving many well-deserved compliments #2025WinterSchool

Vít Adamovský (Budapest) giving a talk

Vít Adamovský (Budapest), 'József Pápay's research on Northern Khanty language and folklore', raising questions in processing field research material: what does it mean when there are 'mistakes' in your source? #2025WinterSchool

Róbert Derényi (Budapest) giving a talk

Róbert Derényi (Budapest), 'Attitude of students towards the ties of Hungarian to the Uralic language family', a truly bold topic with so much to discuss. #2025WinterSchool

Ivan Šimko giving a talk

Ivan Šimko (many places), 'Mansi minicorpus' - more Mansi, never can be too much Mansi! Also exemplifying the fruitful bridge we have been building between Slavic studies and Finno-Ugric studies. #2025WinterSchool

Margarita Wolf (Munich) giving a talk

Margarita Wolf (Munich), 'Aspectual suffixes in Mansi: evidence from the Chernetsov corpus', exemplifying the exponential growth of Mansi studies at LMU! #2025WinterSchool

Tomi Koivunen (Turrrrrrrku) giving a talk

Tomi Koivunen (Turrrrrrrku) did not want to give a talk, but a friend and colleague made him. We were quite thankful for 'Is the Udmurt modal word кулэ an adjective?' #2025WinterSchool

Kitti Vojter (Szeged) giving a talk

Kitti Vojter (Szeged), 'Motion verbs in Nganasan and Dolgan', starting the second day of talks and giving a teaser for the Congressus XIV Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum in Tartu, where participants in this winter school will be organizing a colloquium on motion verbs! #2025WinterSchool

Júlia Pataki (Szeged)

Júlia Pataki (Szeged), 'Posture verbs as quasi-copulas in Mansi', diving into our collective love affair with Mansi and adding fascinating typological perspectives, ending the first day of student talks #2025WinterSchool

Atte Huhtala (Turku) giving a talk

Atte Huhtala (Turku), Finnish tykö in the old(est) literary language, expanding upon a topic in the focus of our 2024 winter school: the earliest written records of Finnish

Anna Sedláčková (Helsinki) giving a talk

Anna Sedláčková (Helsinki), 'Livonian Language Database', combining some of our favourite things: analysing old bible translations, corpus building, Livonian. #2025WinterSchool

Eszter Napsugár Tóbiás (ELTE, Budapest) giving a talk

Eszter Napsugár Tóbiás (Budapest), 'On the past tenses of Komi-Permyak' - one of our favorite passtimes in Uralic studies, reminiscing about the past in multiple morphological and analytical forms! #2025WinterSchool

Patrick Mayrhofer (University of Vienna) giving a talk

Patrick Mayrhofer (VIenna), 'A cabinet of curiosities – Tryggve Sköld’s Ume Saami collection from Mávasjávrrie' proving an overlap in the skill set of a Uralicist and an investigative journalist!

Marcell Maitinsky (Toronto) giving a talk over Zoom in front of a lecture hall.

Marcell Maitinsky (Toronto) gets the ball rolling: 'Taking a nap in Western Siberia? Intra-Uralic loans as a potential source for Hungarian words of unknown origin'. By this point, we all appreciate the nap! #2025WinterSchool

STUDENT COLLOQUIUM MEGATHREAD

#2025WinterSchool

Gerson Klumpp (University of Tartu) giving a talk about discourse particles in Uralic languages in front of students. The current slide has the headline "Detached discourse particle NU" and presents the DiPU project (https://dipu.ut.ee/).

Well, now Gerson Klumpp will talk about discouse particles. #2025WinterSchool

Daria Zhornik (LMU Munich) giving a presentation in front of students. The current slide shows bodies of water and has the headline "water".

Back to Mansi! "If you're in the mood, you can go and kill something"

#2025WinterSchool

Ugri-Mugri evening, organized by our own Triinu Viilukas and her students / band members.

#2025WinterSchool