School of Humanities - News

12–14 June 2024, UEF Joensuu campus hosts the significant international conference Moving Cultures, Moving Ethnicities that addresses topics of cultural mobility and multiethnicity.

The European Commission has presented a Master Course Award to the Erasmus+ Mundus Joint Master’s Degree Programme in Clinical Linguistics, EMCL, conducted at the University of Eastern Finland.

Tuija Saresma studies hate speech – and has also been a target of it.

Funded by the Kone Foundation, the UEF is currently implementing a project that explores shared city space and people’s own, everyday places in it.

The past can be viewed from a variety of perspectives. Addressing different interpretations of history can, at its best, enhance understanding between different cultures.

Songs are a great way to learn a language and culture, as words and expressions get repeated over and over again.

The international CUDIS project has identified the driving forces of modern working life.

The University of Eastern Finland receives a total of 1.8 million euros in funding for infrastructure projects. UEF participates five funded consortiums.

Project Researcher Katarzyna Wisniewska at the School of Humanities was awarded a 40,000 euro grant by the Finnish Cultural Foundation.

Mobility is not only a part of everyday life, but also a global megatrend and an integral part of Western and colonial modernity.