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Hanna Lappalainen has been appointed as Professor of Finnish Language, especially spoken language variation.

There still is a need to process traumatic experiences and memories.

This symposium focuses on the power, effects and roles of song and the human voice, both in hobbies and in nursing and therapy work.

The European Academy of Sciences and Arts has invited UEF’s Professor of English Jopi Nyman as a new member in its meeting in August 2021.

Marja Laasonen has been appointed as Professor of Logopedics as of 1 June.

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.