School of Humanities - News

The SENSOTRA project, funded by the European Research Council, has made its research materials public and accessible to all through an exciting new website.

The School of Humanities at the University of Eastern Finland hosts on 7–18 June 2021 the 10th Folklore Fellows’ Summer School, themed as the Violence of Traditions and the Traditions of Violence.

A special duty to revive the Karelian language was assigned to the University of Eastern Finland in the beginning of 2021, and funding for the work has been granted for two years.

The study examines variation in the use of the active past participle in Border Karelian dialects.

The purpose of MA Tuomas Kervinen's doctoral dissertation is to develop a framework of reading and interpretation based on René Girard’s mimetic theory.

There are many teachers in the workforce whose training did not include any media education at all. The University of Eastern Finland is now filling this gap.

A new book by Dr Heli Paulasto from the University of Eastern Finland, authored in collaboration with Dr Rob Penhallurick and Dr Benjamin A. Jones from Swansea University, sheds light on the history of Welsh English and its contemporary linguistic features and variation.