To the overviews of the years:
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Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2026
| 03/02 | Josef Juergens, M.A., holds a presentation entitled "Visual Illusions and Visibility on Helmets and Shields of the Vendel Period" as part of the colloquium "Current Research on the History of the Middle Ages" in Erfurt. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2025
| 13/12 | The department celebrates its traditional Lucia Festival in the foyer of the new Lecture Hall Building on Lucia Day. |
| 12/12 | On invitation from the Adventskirche, the Nordsångare perform under the direction of Dr. Laura Zieseler and Rebekka Fricke, M.A. as the Lucia procession at the Greifswald Christmas Market. |
| 05/12 | On invitation from the Finnish Embassy, the Finnish team from Greifswald take part in the reception to mark the occasion of the Finnish National Day in Berlin. |
| 03/12 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist gives a guest lecture at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna on the topic "Turmbau auf Färöisch. Sprachverwirrung in Rasmus Rasmussens Bábelstornið". |
| 03/12 | Under the direction of Dr. Laura Zieseler and Rebekka Fricke, M.A., the department choir Nordsångare organises its annual Lucia tour with stops at various daycare centres in Greifswald. |
| 20–21/11 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim, Dr. Thekla Musäus and Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel take part in the conference "Nordic Studies Scholars facing the Changes of the Modern World - 50th Anniversary of Nordic Studies" at the University of Gdańsk. They give presentations on "Populistiskt språkbruk i Estland och förstagångsväljarna" (Bindrim), "Mobility in a globalised world - individual flight, loss and success in contemporary Finnish prose fiction" (Musäus) and "The Good, the Bad, the Ugly? Depictions of (exemplary) immigrants at the Danish Royal Theatre" (Räthel). |
| 17/11 | A delegation of administrative judges from Finland and Bulgaria visits the Department. An informal gathering provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary exchange between students and jurists. The discussion also focused on a comparison of the different administrative and judicial traditions in Finland, Germany and the former Eastern Bloc countries. |
| 08/11 | Hannah Michalla, M.A. gives a presentation titled "SKAM 10 år: Assessing a decade of cultural impact" within the framework of the 12th Lübeck Film Studies Colloquium. |
| 29/10 | Burkhard Bärner, M.A. gives guest lectures on invitation from the Professorship for Scandinavian Linguistics titled "Eddalieder in Elsarn. Ein Projektbericht" and "Vom Urnordiscchen zum Altisländischen". |
| 28/10 | Douglas Ong successfully completes the defence of his doctoral thesis titled "Forging Identities for City and Nation. Analysing Selected Museal Depictions of the Kresy Expulsions in Present-day Wrocław." |
| 20/10 | Franziska Sajdak successfully completes the defence of her doctoral thesis "Erzähler*in werden. Generation und Gedächtnis in skandinavisch-jüdischer Gegenwartsliteratur." |
| 16-17/10 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel attends the meeting of the research network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies at the Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. |
| 28/09-02/10 | Postdoc researchers, doctoral students and advanced students and teachers of Finnish Studies in Greifswald take part in the International Autumn School for Finnish Studies under the motto " Perinteet uudessa valossa - kulttuurin, kielen ja kirjallisuuden tutkimuksen kehityskulkuja" at the University of Greifswald. The event with around 45 participants took place for the third time in Greifswald and was organised by Laura Grewe, M.A.. The lecturers and participants in the autumn school series come from the Universities of Greifswald, Prague, Warsaw and Cologne, which are responsible for the project. In addition, participants from Berlin, Turku and Helsinki also took part in 2025 [Impressions] [de]. |
| 23-27/09 | Swedish lecturer Ewa Holm and four Swedish students visit the book fair in Gothenburg at the end of the lecture series "Identität, kärlek och lust". Lecturers and students from Kiel, Cologne, Munich, Erlangen, Münster and Berlin also take part in the excursion. The group also gains insights into the Nordiska folkhögskolan in Kungälv. The study trip was organised with the support of the Svenska Institutet. |
| 19/09 | Lecturer Ilkka Posio takes part in the conference Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2025 - Language Contact in a Cognitive Perspective at the University of the National Education Commission, Krakow and gives the presentation "Finnish “tahtoa” - A multifunctional verb in change and in contact". |
| 11/09 | Lecturer Ilkka Posio gives the presentation "The Multifunctional Finnish Verb tahtoa, Its Usage, and Its Development" at the University of Potsdam during the conference Syntax of the World's Languages X. |
| 01-04/09 | The 11th DACH Scandinavian Studies Student Conference takes place in Cologne, with Pauline Altendorf and Luise Markwort from Greifswald participating. In addition to many exciting presentations from all subject areas, there is once again a varied supporting programme with a guided tour, a visit to a brewery and a quiz evening. The next DACH Student Conference will be held in Kiel at the beginning of September 2026. |
| 20/08 | Lecturer Ilkka Posio takes part in the 14th International Congress of Finno-Ugric Studies at the University of Tartu in Estonia and gives the presentation "The Many Uses of the Finnish Verb tahtoa and Its Development" |
| 04/08 | Josef Juergens, M.A. gives the presentation "Fighting the Other in the Hjǫrungavágr: the Younger Jómsvíkinga saga as a Counter Narrative" at the 19th International Saga Conference in Katowice. |
| 04-08/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the language teaching lecturers' conference in Helsingør organised by the Danish Ministry of Science. |
| 30/07-02/08 | Charlotte Steinert, M.A. and Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel take part in the IASS (International Association for Scandinavian Studies) conference in Munich and together with Prof. Dr. Eckhard Schumacher, Dr. Alexander Waszynski and Tim Senkbeil, M.A. give the keynote speech "How to do things with peripeties? Interdisciplinary approaches to the Baltic Sea Region". |
| 03/07 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel gives a presentation at the University of Freiburg titled "Opera Geography. History, Politics and (Urban) Architecture of the New Opera Houses in Copenhagen and Oslo". |
| 20/06 | Angelika Gröger successfully completes the defence of her doctoral thesis on Islam in Scandinavian literary texts after 2000. |
| 12/06 | Ilkka Posio, M.A., Laura Grewe, M.A. and intern Arttu Jalonen give a crash course in Finnish as part of the Kinder- und JugendUNI 2025. |
| 01-07/06 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen leads an excursion to Bornholm, Denmark, with a group of students from the Department. |
| 30/05 | Prof. Lars Engwall (Stockholm/Uppsala) visits Greifswald to do research for his biography of the important runologist Sven B. F. Jansson ("Run-Janne"), who was a lecturer at the Swedish language teaching unit in Greifswald in 1933/34. |
| 26/05 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim gives a presentation at the IZfG's Gender in Focus [de] lecture series. |
| 22/05 | In the framework of her research project on the distribution of Finnish polarity items, Dr. Jutta Salminen gives a presentation titled "Argumentative orientation of avertives: evidence from polarity items." at the workshop Avertives in European Languages at the University of Helsinki (22-23/05/2025). |
| 22-24/05 | Ilkka Posio, M.A., Laura Grewe, M.A. and intern Arttu Jalonen take part in the networking meeting of Finnish language teachers in German-speaking countries (SuoSa) at the Finnland-Institut in Berlin. |
| 15-16/05 | Laura Grewe, M.A. takes part in the library meeting of the FID Nord at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel. |
| 13-14/05 | On invitation from Burkhard Bärner M.A., Josef Juergens M.A. gives presentations titled "Zwischen Odinsmaskerade und “bösem Blick”. Zur Konzeption des ægishjálmr" and "Die südgermanischen Runeninschriften. Eine archäologische Perpektive" at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna. |
| 13/05 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the event "Wissenschaftlerinnen lesen Wissenschaftlerinnen" at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg with his monograph "Wie viel Bart darf sein? Jüdische Figuren im skandinavischen Theater". |
| 09/05 | The Icelandic Minister of Culture, Innovation and Higher Education and Nordic Cooperation, Logi Einarsson, and the Icelandic Ambassador to Germany, Auðunn Atlason, visit the Department, the University and the Hanseatic town on the occasion of the festive evening of the Nordischer Klang festival. |
| 08/05 | Prof. Ingebjørg Tonne from the University of Oslo gives a guest lecture on "Språk og makt" as part of Dr. Laura Zieseler's seminar "Skandinavistische Dialektologie und Soziolinguistik". |
| 06/05 | Dr. Hartmut Mittelstädt gives a guest lecture on "The Online Icelandic Dictionary LEXIA" as part of Dr. Laura Zieseler's seminar “Skandinavistische Lexikologie und Lexikographie”. |
| 02-11/05 | 34th Nordischer Klang with many concerts, readings and exhibitions |
| 29/04-08/07 | Ewa Holm, Swedish language lecturer, organises a lecture series together with six other Swedish language lecturers from German universities and with the support of Kulturrådet and the Swedish Institute. Topic: Contemporary Swedish literature. Identitet, kärlek och lust. |
| 27-29/03 | Norwegian language lecturer Arnt Sundstøl and six students visit the Leipzig Book Fair, where Norway is the guest country this year. NORLA invites students of Norwegian from German-speaking countries to a student lunch with the writers Helene Imislund, Peter Strassegger and Kristin Vego. |
| 18/03 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel gives a presentation at the University of Basel titled "Love, Love, Peace, Peace! Schweden als ESC-Host". |
| 11/03 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim recites Estonian poems translated by herself as part of the Women Reading for Women event at St. Spiritus, Greifswald. |
| 10-12/03 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel visits the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. He gives a presentation titled "NordeurOPERA: Politik och historia bakom de nya operahusen i Köpenhamn och Oslo" and teaches a seminar on queer welfare state narratives in contemporary Swedish theatre. |
| 24-26/02 | Together with a delegation from the University of Greifswald, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel visits the universities in Vilnius and Tartu to establish and expand cooperation between the universities. |
| 08/01-09/01 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel, Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, Dr. des. Benjamin Schweitzer and doctoral candidates Charlotte Steinert and Douglas Ong take part in the external assessment of the IRTG Baltic Peripeties by a group of experts from the German Research Foundation as part of the application for a second funding phase for the International Research Training Group. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2024
| 14/12 | The department celebrates its traditional Lucia Festival in the foyer of the new lecture hall building. |
| 12/12 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim holds a master's seminar on gender-sensitive language use in German at the Department of German Studies at the University of Helsinki. |
| 11/12 | Dr. des. Benjamin Schweitzer seeks full external funding of €91,000 from the KONE Foundation for his three-year Fennist postdoctoral project Die finnische Avantgarde im Spiegel der Sprache [de], which is dedicated to the Finnish avant-garde across artistic disciplines using discourse-linguistic means. |
| 09/12-13/12 | Guest lecturer Kari Silvola (University of Jyväskylä) holds a block seminar on literature and media culture - adaptations from novel to film as part of an EDUFI guest lectureship at the Finnish Studies department in Greifswald. |
| 06/12 | The first career day for Finnish Studies and Scandinavian Studies students [de] takes place to great acclaim. Graduates of the Department of Scandinavian Studies talk about their interesting career paths and answer students' questions. |
| 04/12 | At the invitation of the Finnish Embassy, the Greifswald Finnish Studies lecturers attend the reception [de] on the occasion of the Finnish National Day in Berlin. |
| 04/12 | Under the direction of Dr. Laura Zieseler and Rebekka Fricke, M.A., the Nordsångare department choir organises its annual Lucia tour with stops at various daycare centres in Greifswald. |
| 03/12 | The Swedish Embassy organises an evening "in memory of Suzanne Osten" in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the panel discussion as an expert. |
| 28/11-29/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the advisory board meeting of the Finnland-Institut in Berlin. The participants are informed about the status of German-Finnish cooperation in the German Bundestag and are received by Ambassador Dr. Kai Sauer at the Finnish Embassy residence. |
| 27/11 | At a gala in Schwerin Castle, Minister President Manuela Schwesig presented this year's Mecklenburg-Vorpommern "Kulturförderpreis" to the Nordischer Klang e.V. association. The award honoured the association's commitment to organising the Nordischer Klang festival, which has been bringing a variety of art, music, literature and academia to Mecklenburg-Vorpommern for over 30 years and is committed to international cooperation. Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel, Christine Nickel and Marie-Luis Westfeld took part in the event. Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Christine Nickel accepted the award on behalf of the association and also thanked all the staff and students of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies, who contribute to the success of the festival every year. |
| 26/11 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel moderates the evening “Was heißt Norden heute?” at the Felleshus of the Nordic Embassies. The event is organised by the Royal Danish Embassy. |
| 20/11 | Dr. Laura Assmuth (Prof. Em. of Social and Public Policy at the University of Eastern Finland) holds a seminar for advanced Finnish students on the topic "Suomi, maailman onnellisin maa - tutkimustulos vai myytti?" (“Finland, the happiest country in the world - research result or myth?”) |
| 23-24/11 | Estonian language and culture students take part in the excursion [de] to the Estonian Film Days in Berlin. Beforehand, the group visited the exhibition of Estonian artists. The excursion was led by Dr. Yvonne Bindrim. |
| 07/11 | Together with Paul von Moers from the Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel opens the Greifswald lecture series Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region: Exhibiting Transformative Years with the presentation "Exhibiting 100 Years of Danish-German Border History". |
| 31/10-02/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller organises the 24th International Authors' Conference "Young Literature in Europe" in cooperation with the Hans Werner Richter Stiftung [de], with 11 authors from 5 countries taking part. Prior to the conference, a public author's talk with Cristina Sandu (FIN) takes place at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies. |
| 23/10-25/10 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the international conference Fans in the theatre? About unbeloved fannish spectators and theatre's self-image 1860-1920 at the University of Cologne/Schloss Wahn and gives a presentation titled "Take a bow! (Royal) Copenhagen's First Female Star". |
| 21/10-23/10 | At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Roger Reidinger, Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist and Dr. des. Laura Zieseler take part in the anniversary week on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of Scandinavian Studies in Vienna [de]. On 22 October, Christer Lindqvist gives a presentation on "Der Plural des färöischen Substantivs" and Laura Zieseler on "Stutt og greitt um føroyskt - ein Kurztrip durch die kleinste skandinavische Gegenwartssprache". |
| 21/10 | At the invitation of the Nordic Embassies in Berlin, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller take part in the ceremony to mark their 25th anniversary [de]. The ceremony took place in the presence of Royal Highnesses and Presidents of all Nordic countries as well as the Federal President. |
| 04/10 | Former Icelandic lecturer Hartmut Mittelstädt has been working on the LEXIA-TYS project since 2018, which aims to create a modern online Icelandic-German dictionary. It is based on the vocabulary of ISLEX (around 55,000 lemmas), for which there are already versions in the Nordic languages Danish, Norwegian/Bokmål, Norwegian/Nynorsk, Swedish, Faroese and Finnish. Under the leadership of Icelandic lecturer at the University of Vienna Eleonore Gudmundsson, 2/3 of the Icelandic vocabulary has now been translated into German, so that the project was recently launched online on 4 October 2024 to mark the 40th anniversary of the Department of Scandinavian Studies in Vienna: It is now accessible to everyone and can be used free of charge at lexia.arnastofnun.is/de [de]. |
| 30/09-04/10 | Postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students as well as advanced students and teachers of Finnish Studies in Greifswald take part in the International Autumn School for Finnish Studies "Monimerkityys kielessä, kulttuurissa ja kirjallisuudessa" [de] at the University of Warsaw. The lecturers and participants in the autumn school series come from the universities of Greifswald, Prague, Warsaw and Cologne, which are responsible for the project. In addition, participants from Caen, Turku and Jyväskylä also took part in 2024 [Impressions]. |
| 24/09-26/09 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel, Dr. des. Laura Zieseler, Josef Juergens, M.A. and Ilkka Posio,M.A. as well as doctoral candidate Charlotte Steinert, M.A. and Master's student Marie-Luis Westfeld take part in the 26th ATdS in Bonn. As part of this conference, Clemens Räthel gives a keynote speech titled “NordeurOPER - Politische Geschichte(n), urbane Architektur und nationale Verortungen der neuen Musiktheater in Kopenhagen und Oslo” and co-leads work group 9 “Family ties and elective affinities”. Christer Lindqvist and Laura Zieseler are co-heads of work group 3 "Linguistics" and give presentations on the topics "Fär. glývur/glyvur ‚kleine, in der Regel mit Vegetation gefüllte Felsspalte, die zur See hin fällt" and "Von TAKS bis seffern: Kurzwortbildung in den skandinavischen Sprachen". Josef Juergens is co-leader of work group 1 "Ambiguity and Polyvalence in the Northern European Context" and gives a presentation on "Anthroponymie oder Homonymie? Ein Spiel mit ambigen Namen in der altnordischen Poesie". Ilkka Posio gives a presentation titled "Cosca tacto se Vsicu loppua - När wil tå then Nyymånadhen haffua en enda: Das multi-funktionale finnische Verb tahtoa im Gegensatz zu den skandinavischen Verben ville und vilja", and Marie-Luis Westfeld on the topic "Hun fødte mig ud ad øret, som jeg havde planlagt". Family & Fairytale - Lea Marie Løppenthin's Sæson". |
| 12/09-13/09 | As part of her research project on the distribution of Finnish polarity elements, Dr. Jutta Salminen and Dr. Maria Vilkuna (Helsinki) give a presentation on word order variations of the negative-polar pronoun "kukaan" and the negation verb "ei" [de] at the Hamburg conference "Syntax of Uralic Languages". |
| 09/09-12/09 | The 10th DACH Student Conference of Scandinavian Studies takes place in Basel, with Pauline Altendorf and Laura Schönhärl from Greifswald also participating. In addition to many exciting presentations from all subject areas, there is also a varied social programme with a city tour, a hike up the Gempen and pizza, bar and film evenings. In addition to Greifswald and Basel, students from Zurich, Cologne and Berlin are guests and many contacts and friendships can be made. We look forward to the next DACH conference with even more representatives from other cities taking place in Cologne at the beginning of September 2025! |
| 04/09 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. des. Benjamin Schweitzer take part in a reception at the invitation of the Finnish ambassador to mark the 30th anniversary of the Finnland-Institute, which also provided an opportunity for a brief exchange with the Finnish Minister of Science. |
| 13-15/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and M.A. Ilkka Posio take part in the International Training Conference for Finnish Teachers Abroad [de] in Tampere organised by EDUFI. |
| 13/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the Finnish National Board of Education's Expert Council for Finnish Teaching Abroad. |
| 5-9/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the lecturers' conference in Holbæk organised by the Danish Ministry of Science. |
| 19/07 | On the initiative of Dr. des. Laura Zieseler, the Chair of Scandinavian Linguistics organises a presentation followed by an exhibition of linguistic posters created by Scandinavian Studies students during the semester. |
| 05/07 | Benjamin Schweitzer successfully defends his doctoral thesis Adaptation – Konstruktion – Narration. Untersuchungen zur finnischen Musikfachsprache aus historischer, struktureller und diskurslinguistischer Perspektive with top marks. The interdisciplinary study with a focus on Finnish Studies also opens the series of doctorates within the international Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties. Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller (first supervisor) and Prof. Dr. Ingo Warnke (second supervisor) from the University of Bremen acted as assessors. |
| 04/07 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim conducts an event on the expression of gender in genderless languages within the framework of a seminar in Scandinavian Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| 03/07 | Josef Juergens, M.A., gives a presentation titled"Gunnar á Hlíðarenda - King of the Hillside" at the International Medieval Congress 2024 at the University of Leeds in the panel "Violence as Strategy of Resilience?", which is ideally funded by the Medievalists' Association, and moderates the panel "Paths to Resolution?: Flight as a Mode of Crisis Managment", which is also ideally funded by the Medievalists' Association. |
| 02/07 | At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Muriel Norde, Dr. des. Laura Zieseler gives a guest lecture [de] at the Northern European Institute of the HU Berlin on the topic "Eins og dunnan ljóðar lekkur, ikki dunnaðin." - Kontaktinduzierter Sprachwandel und Sprachideologie im Färöischen". |
| 29/06 | The department celebrates the traditional Midsummer festival in the apple orchard at Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz. In addition to the department's own ensembles Nordsångare and Septentrio (Thekla Musäus, Jutta Salminen, Laura Zieseler), the women's choir Chorda filiarum under the direction of Rebekka Fricke performs as a musical guest. |
| 24/06 | At the invitation of the Department of Medieval Studies at the Chair of Scandinavian Linguistics, Lukas Albrecht M.A. (Munich) gives a guest lecture on the topic "Heldentum in Stein gemeißelt? Eine Annäherung an nordische Heldendarstellungen auf Gotlands Bildsteinen". |
| 18/06 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is elected spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO). |
| 09-15/06 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen leads an excursion to Nordjylland, Denmark with a group of students from the department. |
| 07/06 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is invited to present "FRAUEN - MACHT - WISSEN. Die preußisch-schwedische Prinzessinnenbibliothek als Bildungs- und Herrschaftsinstrument" at the 24h lecture of the University of Greifswald. |
| 04/06 | On the occasion of Grundlovsdag, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the summer reception of the Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin. |
| 04/06 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim gives the presentation "Zweisprachiges Finnland - Im Spannungsfeld zwischen Alltagserfahrung und Sprachenpolitik" at the Scandinavian Studies research colloquium at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| 28/05 | At the international workshop Gender in Northern European Literature at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel gives the keynote speech "Doing Gender in/with literature. Ann Charlotte Leffler's play Skådespelerskan (1873)". |
| 23-25/05 | Lecturer Ilkka Posio and intern Eevi Pulkkinen take part in the conference "Luonnon kielet - Sprachen der Natur" at the Department of Scandinavian/Finnish Studies at the University of Cologne together with the Finnish students. |
| 22-24/05 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the workshop "Resonant Conflicts. Turning Points in the Baltic Sea Region" of the International Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties at the University of Trondheim. |
| 22/05 | Lecturer Ilkka Posio and intern Eevi Pulkkinen take part in the meeting of Finnish organisations in Germany at the Finnish embassy in Berlin. |
| 10/05 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen gives a presentation "Von Sumé bis Nanook Populärmusik in Grönland" at the Greifswald Town Library. |
| 06/05 | At the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg, the conference Erzählen in Kriegszeiten. Scandinavian-German Perspectives [de] organised by Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel and Dr. Alexander Waszinski takes place. |
| 03/05 | A delegation from the Finnish partner city of Kotka visits the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies [de] and learns about the rich tradition of Finnish language and culture education at the University of Greifswald. |
| 03/05 | I. E. Marika Linntam, Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia, visits the University of Greifswald [de]. The Ambassador is received by the Rector of the University, Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller. I.E. Marika Linntam finds out more about the University of Greifswald and the Nordischer Klang cultural festival. She then signs the university's guest book. The ambassador also visits the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies with its guest lecturer for Estonian language and culture. There she exchanges views with teaching staff on current research and teaching collaborations with Estonia. |
| 03-12/05 | 33rd Nordischer Klang with many concerts, readings and exhibitions.[to the programme] [de] |
| 02-04/05 | The conference of Norwegian lecturers organised by Arnt Sundstøl on the topic of “Language changes in Norway today” takes place with 16 participants from universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. Presentations are given by Prof. Ernst Håkon Jahr (Agder), Prof. Unn Røyneland (Oslo), Prof. Walter Baumgartner (Greifswald), Øyvind Vågnes (author), Ragnhild Holmås (author) and Johanna Seim (musician and filmmaker). |
| 24/04 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. |
| 17/04 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is elected Chairman of the Academic Senate of the University of Greifswald. |
| 17/04 | The Ambassador of the Republic of Finland Kai Sauer and the Embassy Counsellor for Press & Culture Dan Ekholm [de] visit the University of Greifswald. A lively exchange in the rectorate was followed by a visit to the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies, where a lively discussion with the students ensued. Afterwards, the ambassador gave a public presentation on Finnish security and foreign policy in the university's auditorium. |
| 16/04 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in a meeting with creative artists [de] at the invitation of the Estonian Ambassador H.E. Marika Linntam within the framework of the visit and brings greetings from the University of Greifswald and the Nordischer Klang Festival to the Estonian President Alar Karis. |
| 13/03 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen gives a presentation titled "HIP - Ale nie tylko. Nowa kultura młodzieżowa, nowe czasy i nowa muzyka w Danii w latach 1967-73" at the Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza in Poznan. |
| 04-05/03 | The Chair of Finnish Studies organises the 3rd FI-DACH conference [de] in Greifswald. Prof. Marko Pantermöller, Dr. Thekla Musäus, Dr. Jutta Salminen, Dr. Yvonne Bindrim, the Finnish lecturer Ilkka Posio and the doctoral candidate of Finnish Studies and the IRTG Research Training Group Baltic Peripeties Benjamin Schweitzer give lectures. |
| 04/03 | Josef Juergens, M.A., is elected to the board of the Medieval Centre Greifswald. |
| 22/01 | In the framework of the lecture series Universität im Rathaus [de], Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel speaks about "Die Prinzessinnenbibliothek. Eine schwedisch-preußische Geschichte über Kulturaustausch, mächtige Frauen und die Welt der Bücher". |
| 20/01 | At the invitation of Prof. Dr. Steffen Höder of Kiel University, Dr. des. Laura Zieseler gives a guest lecture on the topic of "Kurzwortbildung in den skandinavischen Sprachen: Eine Annäherung". |
| 17/01 | Dr. Solveig Marie Wang gives students of Medieval Scandinavian Studies an insight into her work Literatur und Kultur im Alten Island within the framework of the seminar "Literatur und Kultur im Alten Island" by Josef Juergens, M.A.. |
| 14/01 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in a panel discussion at the Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin on the occasion of the proclamation of Frederik X. He talks to Ambassador Susanne Hyldelund and Defence Attaché Jakob Henius about the Danish-German ratio and the special features of the Danish monarchy. |
| 09/01-12/01 | At the 2024 committee elections, Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is elected to the Academic Senate. Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller are also elected to the Faculty Council of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2023
| 14/12 | Translator Maximilian Murmann gives a guest presentation titled An der Schnittstelle zwischen verschiedenen Kulturen und Märkten - Einblicke in Übersetzungsprozessen und das Berufsfeld des (literarischen) Übersetzers [de] at the invitation of the Chair of Finnish Studies, in which students from various philologies take part. |
| 13/12 | At the invitation of the town of Greifswald, the Nordsångare under the direction of Dr. des. Laura Zieseler and Rebekka Fricke, M.A., perform as a Lucia procession at Greifswald's Christmas market on Lucia Day. |
| 09/12 | The department celebrates the traditional Lucia Festival on the New Campus. |
| 05/12 | At the invitation of the Finnish Embassy, the Finnish lecturers from Greifswald take part in the reception on the occasion of the Finnish National Day [de] in Berlin. |
| 04/12 | The department choir Nordsångare, coordinated by Dr. des. Laura Zieseler and Rebekka Fricke, M.A., undertakes its annual Lucia tour through several daycare centres in the town of Greifswald. |
| 29/11 | At the invitation of the Chair of Modern Scandinavian Literatures, Sotirios Kimon Mouzakis (University of Zurich) gives a guest lecture titled "Diskriminierung als Potenz. Queere Muslimat in den Jugendromanen von Kristina Aamand, Johanna Nilsson und Gulraiz Sharif". |
| 27-28/11 | The workshop Queer\ing Scandinavia: Traditional Topics, Recent Research and Current Concerns, organised by Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel, takes place with researchers and students from Copenhagen, Trondheim, Zurich, Vienna, Berlin and Greifswald. |
| 23/11 | Franziska Sajdak, M.A., gives a presentation as part of the lecture "Erinnere uns zum Leben! Judentum und skandinavische Literatur" at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich with the title "`Så jag bestämmer åt dig." Generation and Identity in Scandinavian-Jewish Contemporary Literature". |
| 17/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the advisory board of the Finnland-Institut in Germany in Berlin. |
| 17/11 | Benjamin Schweitzer, M.A. gives a presentation at the international conference Discourses in/of Disruption at the TU Dresden on the topic “Anti-Väinämöinen“ zum „neuen Sibelius“ : Werk und Persönlichkeit der Komponistin Kaija Saariaho als Musterbruch im finnischen Musikdiskurs. |
| 15/11 | Josef Juergens, M.A., gives a presentation titled "Von bairischen Felshöhlen bis zum Bernstein der Baltic Sea - Streifzüge durch die südgermanische Runentradition" within the framework of the lecture "Sprachgeschichte des Deutschen von den Anfängen bis zum 16. Jahrhundert" at the Department of German Philology Greifswald. |
| 02-04/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller organises the 23rd International Authors' Conference "Junge Literatur in Europa" in cooperation with the Hans-Werner-Richter-Stiftung [de], with 11 authors from 5 countries taking part. |
| 01/11 | The successful Finnish author Meri Valkama presents her novel "Sinun, Margot" (WSOY 2021) in a literary discussion with Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller at the Greifswald Town Library. |
| 27/10 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, acting spokesperson of the Deutscher Finnougristentag, welcomes the representatives of the association to their 21st meeting at the University of Greifswald. |
| 23-26/10 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel was at the Arctic University of Tromsø (UiT) to exchange ideas with colleagues from the research network "Worlding Nordic Art" (WONA) and the "Senter for Arktisk Humaniora" (ArcHum) about key fields of research and to plan cooperation. |
| 12-13/10 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim participates in the conference Language, gender and sexuality: theoretical and methodological perspectives at the University of Helsinki with a presentation on the argumentation for and against gender-sensitive language use. |
| 11/10 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim holds a seminar on Finnish bilingualism - language policy, recruitment, opinions, experiences at Åbo Akademi. |
| 10/10 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim is invited to give a presentation on the ability of young people in Estonia to reflect on populist language use as part of the lecture series of the Institute of Estonian Language and General Linguistics at the University of Tartu. |
| 24-29/09 | Postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students and advanced students and teachers of Finnish Studies in Greifswald take part in the International Autumn School for Finnish Studies "Rajat ja jatkumot kielessä, kirjallisuudessa ja kulttuuritieteessä“ at the Charles University in Prague. The lecturers and participants of the autumn school series come from the universities of Greifswald, Prague, Warsaw, Jyväskylä and Cologne. [Impressions]. |
| 19/09 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the conference "Grenz(über)fälle - 30 Jahre Convivium" at the Instytut Filologii Germańskiej of the University of Łódzki with the presentation "Utopie, Distopie und Erotik - Vergangenheit und postsowjetische Realität in der karelischen Literatur". |
| 18-21/09 | At the 9th DACH Student Conference [de] organised by the Greifswald Nordic Studies Student Council, students of Scandinavian Studies in the German language present their own research projects. |
| 13-15/09 | Josef Juergens, M.A. takes part in the conference "Viking Things. Objects and Agency in Old Norse Culture" [de] and gives a presentation titled "Œgishiálm bar ek um alda sonom. One name, different ideas?". Ein Name, verschiedene Vorstellungen? |
| 14/09 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel moderates the event “Zeitenwende im Ostseeraum: Wo steuern wir hin?” [de] at the Schleswig-Holstein State Representation in Berlin. The event is held on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the NORDEUROPAforum and Schleswig-Holstein's chairmanship of the Conference of Ministers for European Affairs. |
| 04-08/09 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is in Prague for the meeting of the research network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies at Charles University. |
| 30/08 | Dr. Jutta Salminen gives a presentation titled Polarities in conflict - a multilayered nature of negative scope at the conference 56th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea at the National and Kapodistrias University of Athens (29/08-01/09/2023). |
| 22/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in events within the framework of the Estonian Foreign Minister's visit to Berlin at the invitation of the Estonian Embassy. |
| 08-10/08 | Prof. Marko Pantermöller, Dr. Jutta Salminen and Dr. Thekla Musäus take part in the International Training Conference for Finnish Teachers Abroad in Helsinki, organised by the EDUFI. |
| 08/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the Finnish National Board of Education's Expert Council for Finnish Teaching Abroad. |
| 01-03/08 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the 34th conference of the International Association for Scandinavian Studies (IASS) in Tromsø, northern Norway, and gives a presentation titled "Literary Resurrection of Forgotten Bodies. Pathology and Welfare Critique in Gudmund Vindland's and Jonas Gardell's Works". |
| 31/07-4/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the lecturer conference in Slagelse organised by the Danish Ministry of Science. |
| 15/07 | Josef Juergens, M.A. gives a presentation at the 8th Archaeological Summer Symposium at the Museum Erding [de] titled "Der Prunkkamm aus dem Reihengräberfeld Altenerding/Klettham." |
| 11-18/07 | Lecturer Arnt Sundstøl leads an excursion to Oslo with a group of students from the department. |
| 08/07 | At the student conference Lesen und Herrschen. Weibliche (literarische) Lebenswelten zwischen Skandinavien und Preußen [de], students of Scandinavian Studies, the Master's degree course in Culture-Interculturality-Literature and students of the Institute for Northern European Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin present their own research projects. |
| 05/07 | At the invitation of the Department of Scandinavian Medieval Studies, Dr. Andreas Schmidt (Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel) gives a guest lecture on the topic "Wenn das Jenseits ins Diesseits kommt. Pagane Reste und Gäste in Königssagas". |
| 01/07 | The department celebrates the traditional Midsommarfest for the first time at the apple orchard on Ernst-Lohmeyer-Platz. |
| 29/06 | Students of Scandinavian Studies and the Master's degree course in Culture-Interculturality-Literature are on an excursion to Berlin with Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel. They visit the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin to find out more about the Swedish-Prussian “Princess Library”; their visit to the Royal Danish Embassy focusses on Danish-German exchange processes and cultural diplomacy. |
| 15-17/06 | Benjamin Schweitzer, M.A. participates with the presentation Kaija Saariaho: A Composer of Many Semiospheres at the 15th Conference on Baltic Studies in Europe (CBSE) Turning Points: Values and Conflicting Futures in the Baltics at the Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas. |
| 13-15/06 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim takes part in the conference Challenging the Binary: Non-Binary, Genderqueer, and Gender-Neutral Language at the University College London with a presentation on the argumentation for and against gender-sensitive language use. |
| 13/06 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist gives a guest lecture at the University of Kiel titled "Turmbau auf Färöisch. Linguistic confusion in Rasmus Rasmussen's Bábelstornið". |
| 08/06 | The envoy of the Finnish Embassy, Pasi Pöysäri, visits the Department of Finnish Studies and takes part in an exchange of ideas with students and teaching staff. |
| 08/06 | Benjamin Schweitzer, M.A. participates in the 29th Linguistiktage der Gesellschaft für Sprache und Sprachen (GeSuS) La recherche fondamentale en linguistique et ses applications concrètes at the University of Paris-Est-Creteil (UPEC) with the presentation Ein DIMEAN-basierter "Werkzeugkasten" zur Analyse von Fachdiskursen: Fallbeispiel finnische Musikdiskurse online. |
| 07-08/06 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. Yvonne Bindrim are co-organisers of the 2nd IFZO Conference: Predictable Futures? On the Impact of Fear and Insecurity in the Baltic Sea Region and organise the roundtable Future of the Baltic Sea Region, Politics, Diplomacy and Academia in Dialogue with, among others, the envoy of the Finnish Embassy Pasi Pöysäri and the Finnish moderator Ilkka Ahtiainen, Editor in Chief at MTV Oy. They also take part in the panel Language Policy and Socio-linguistic Approaches with Focus on Baltic States. |
| 30/05 - 02/06 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim accompanies the excursion to the "Geschichte und Kulturen der Slawen" seminar in Slavonic Studies to Riga and Daugavpils in Latvia. She also informs the students of Russian about the possibility of a stay abroad in Estonia. |
| 30/05-02/06 | Dr. Katja Kontturi (University of Jyväskylä) is an EDUFI guest lecturer at the Department of Finnish Studies in the Fantastic Literature from Finland teaching project and gives the public guest lecture Donald Duck - a Fantasy Comic?. |
| 30/05-02/06 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is in Vilnius for the meeting of the research network New Geographies of Scandinavian Studies. |
| 25-27/05 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel take part in the conference Negotiating Peripeties. Change and its Narratives of the IRTG Baltic Peripeties at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg. On the final day, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel holds the keynote speech "Pragma and Peripetie? The (Un)Expected in Ludvig Holberg's Comedies". H.E. Alar Streimann, Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia, Erik F. Øverland, Norwegian Embassy Counsellor and Delegate for Education and Research, and Bettina Martin, Minister of Science of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, give welcoming speeches at the opening ceremony of the conference. |
| 22-26/05 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist and Dr. des. Laura Zieseler conduct a seminar “Einführung in das Färööische” as a block course (24 SWS) at the Department of Scandinavian Studies at the University of Vienna [de]. |
| 22-25/05 | Dr. Sabine Meyer teaches at the University of Vienna as part of the Erasmus+ mobility programme and gives a presentation titled "Das Bezwingen der Autofiktion? Textuelle Grenzgänge in Madame Nielsens Pentagon smeltet (2022/23)" |
| 19-21/05 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller leads the general assembly of the Deutsch-Finnische-Gesellschaft in Leverkusen with around 100 delegates from the state associations of the friendship society, which has over 8,000 members. |
| 08-12/05 | Prof. Dr. Leena Kolehmainen visits the Chair of Finnish Studies and gives a public presentation titled Multilingualität im Museum: Die Linguistic Landscape-Analyse als Instrument der Sprach- und Translationspolitik. In several working meetings with Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, preparations are also being made for the Third International FI-DACH Conference [de], which will take place at the University of Greifswald from 4-5 March 2024. |
| 08/05 | The conference Lese\Kulturen - Lektürepraktiken im Norden vom 18. Jahrhundert bis in die Gegenwart [de] organised by Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel and Dr. Sabine Meyer takes place at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg. |
| 04-05/05 | The various departments of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies organise an information forum on the topic of "Bühnenpoesie im Norden: Spoken Word und Poetry Slam". On 4 May in the joint programme at the St. Spiritus Socio-Cultural Centre, experts on performance poetry scenes in Finland (Aura Nurmi), Estonia (Sirel Heinloo), Sweden (Olivia Bergdahl), Denmark (Rasmus Rohde) and Norway (Sarah Camille) present their own texts and deal with characteristic questions and distinguishing features of Nordic stage poetry scenes. On 5 May, the guests hold workshops on creative writing for students of the Nordic languages in their respective language groups at the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies. |
| 03/05 | Malin Bengtsson is notified in a letter dated 3 May 2023 by the Vice-Rector for Teaching, Prof. Dr. Dorthe G. A. Hartmann, that she has been nominated for a Teaching Prize for outstanding teaching. |
| 26/04 | As part of a seminar session organised jointly with Dr. Florian Schmid ( Department of German Philology) on the topic of journeys in Middle High German and Old Norse literature, Josef Juergens, M.A. gives a presentation titled "Ein-Wanderung als Erklärungsmodell im Prolog der Snorra Edda". |
| 20/04 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel moderates the panel discussion Zur kulturellen Bedeutung des Meeres [de] at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. |
| 25/03 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim takes part in a panel discussion at the conference Think Rural in the Baltic Sea Region: A multi-disciplinary perspective. |
| 09/03 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen gives a presentation "Od Sumé do Nanook - Grenlandzka muzyka popularna" at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. |
| 24/02 | Prof. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. Yvonne Bindrim take part in events organised by the Estonian embassy [de] in Berlin on the occasion of the 105th Independence Day of the Republic of Estonia. |
| 22-25/02 | Dr. Jutta Salminen takes part in the conference of Finnish teachers in German-speaking countries [de] and the associated symposium at the LMU Munich and presents her current research project. |
| 13 & 22/02 | Finnish Studies student Linda Henschel and Dr. Thekla Musäus give a Finnish crash course [de] to pupils at Georg-August-Zinn Schule Reichelsheim in preparation for an Erasmus+ stay at the partner school in Kuusamo (Kuusamon lukio) in March this year. |
| 04-05/02 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the cultural conference of the Deutsch-Finnische Gesellschaft in Helsinki, which focuses on planning joint cultural projects for the calendar year 2024. |
| 03/02 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the interdisciplinary workshop Institution, Kanon, Transformation. Opernhäuser und Opernpraxis als „geteiltes Erbe“ at the University of Greifswald and gives a presentation titled Opernhaus Kopenhagen: (Wie) Funktionieren privat finanzierte Gemeinschaftsaufgaben? |
| 11/01 | Charlotte Wenke, M.A., gives a presentation titled “Für die Ehre der Nation” – Die Aufnahme des Hoenschatzes in die Altertümersammlung des jungen norwegischen Staates 1835/36 and provides students of Scandinavian Medieval Studies an insight into the project Präsentation von Erbe im musealen Kontext: Wikingergold – Schatzfunde als translokales Erbe as part of the seminar Literatur und Kultur im Alten Island by Josef Juergens, M.A. |
| 10/01 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel holds his inaugural lecture titled Brüchige Versprechen, verratene Ideale, unheilbare Medizin. Queere Wohlfahrtsstaat-Erzählungen in schwedischer Literatur des 21. Jahrhunderts.. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2022
| 22/12 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is appointed to the Finnish National Board of Education's Expert Council for Finnish Teaching Abroad for a further term of office. |
| 21/12 | Organised by Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim and Liina Lutsepp, students of Estonian at the University of Greifswald are guests at the "Reise um die Welt" [de] course at the House of the Estonian Language in Narva, where they talk in Estonian about German and their own Christmas traditions and learn about those of the Russian-speaking participants from Narva. |
| 15/12-17/12 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel take part in the interdisciplinary workshop The same event? Morphologies, Reflections, Disseminations of the IRTG Baltic Peripeties at the University of Tartu (Estonia). |
| 13/12 | Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Santeri Junttila gives YLE, Finland's public broadcaster, an insight into the origin of the Swedish word Finland. |
| 09/12 | New research funding for Greifswald Finnish Studies: Two project proposals for research into the Finnish language have been approved. In her project (funding €111,800, Kone Foundation), Dr. Jutta Salminen will spend four years investigating typological questions relating to the distribution of negative polarity expressions. Dr. Santeri Junttila (€6,000 in funding, Verband der finnischen Sachbuchautor*innen) has received funding for a non-fiction book project on false friends in the Estonian-Finnish language pair, which he will begin after his return to Tartu. |
| 07/12 | At the invitation of the Chair of Scandinavian Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Steffen Höder from Kiel University gives a guest lecture on the topic of "Skandinavien und Norddeutschland: areale Spuren einer langen Kontaktgeschichte". |
| 06/12 | Christian Donat, M.A. successfully completes the thesis on "Modalpartikeln im Norwegischen". |
| 05/12 | Postdoctoral researcher Dr. Santeri Junttila gives a radio interview to YLE, the Finnish public broadcaster on the origin of the word Suomi "Finland". |
| 02/12 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller attends the reception at the Finnish Embassy in Berlin on the occasion of the 105th Independence Day of the Republic of Finland. |
| 24/11 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel gives a presentation titled Opera/Nation-Building. Perspectives on the new opera house in Copenhagen as part of the Greifswald lecture series Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Baltic Sea Region – Spotlight on Symphonic Music and Opera. |
| 18/11-19/11 | With the support of EKKAV (The academic studies of Estonian language and culture abroad), Estonian students and lecturers from Greifswald go on a cultural excursion to Berlin and visit the Embassy of the Republic of Estonia and the Estonian Film Festival [de]. The esteemed reception at the embassy testified to the importance that is attached to the commitment of the students from Greifswald in Estonia. |
| 17/11-18/11 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the workshop "Der Tod auf der Bühne. Performativität und Funktionalität szenischer Todesrepräsentationen" and gives a presentation titled: "Ich schlafe als Johan stirbt. Ich war so lange wach gewesen. Tode im schwedischen Doku-Drama Kurage (2020)" |
| 16/11 | At the Chair of Finnish Studies, the Eesti keele päev - Estonian Language Day organised by guest lecturer Liina Lutsepp and Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim, takes place with presentations by renowned Estonian linguists, the cultural attaché Merit Kopli and student contributions. |
| 11/11 | Dr. Jutta Salminen is invited by the Finnish ambassador to take part in a forum that brings together Finnish stakeholders active in Germany to discuss the prospects for the exchange of Finnish-German relations. |
| 07/11-11/11 | Dr. Nanny Jolma from the University of Tampere visits the Chair of Finnish Studies as a 20-hour EDUFi guest lecturer [de] and holds a block seminar for students of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies on autofiction in Finnish and Finnish-Swedish literature. |
| 03/11-05/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller organises the 22nd International Authors' Conference "Junge Literatur in Europa" in cooperation with the Hans-Werner-Richter-Stiftung [de], in which 10 authors from 4 countries participate. |
| 02/11-30/11 | Rodolfo Basile from Greifswald's partner university in Tartu (Estonia) spends a research stay at the Department of Finnish Studies with a short scholarship for doctoral students. He researches the specifics of partitive constructions in the Finnish language. |
| 02/11-06/11 | Dr. Sabine Meyer gives a presentation titled "Queering the Noir Conventions: The Lesbian Femme Fatale in Hasse Ekman's Flicka och hyacinter (1950)" at the Film Studies Colloquium within the framework of the Nordic Film Days in Lübeck. |
| 10/10 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is in Copenhagen at the invitation of the German Embassy. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is this year's partner state at the reception to mark German Unity Day. |
| 03-07/10 | The postdoctoral researchers, doctoral students, advanced students and teaching staff from Greifswald's Finnish Studies department take part in the International Finnish Autumn School in Warsaw. The lecturers and participants in the project came from the universities of Greifswald, Prague, Warsaw and Cologne. |
| 22/09 | Dr. Sabine Meyer is accepted into the mentoring programme for female postdoctoral researchers [de] at the University of Greifswald. |
| 08/09 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is elected 2nd Chairman of the Fachverband Skandinavistik [de]. |
| 06-08/09 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist, Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel, Josef Juergens, Dr. Sabine Meyer, Dr. Thekla Musäus and Dr. des. Laura Zieseler take part in the 25th Scandinavian Studies Conference. They give presentations on "Fär. /ui/ und die Pest" (Lindqvist), "Färöisch in den Zeiten von Corona" (Zieseler), "Sjá skal vera ef vér lifum, eikikylfa óþörf Dönum - die Aussagekraft improvisierter Waffen in der Jómsvíkinga saga" (Juergens), "Vänskapskaka aus St. Olaf. Skandinavien als komisches Element in The Golden Girls" (Meyer), "Komik, Artistik und (deutsche) Zeitgeschichte in der finnischen Gegenwartsliteratur" (Musäus) and "Lachend sterben - sterbend lachen. Komik und Aids im schwedischen Drama Kurage (2020)" (Räthel). Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel and Dr. Sabine Meyer head the working group Freude, Lust, Vergnügen, Heiterkeit und Laune? Komik und Skandinavien. |
| 29/08 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is a guest at the German Embassy in Copenhagen and talks with Prof. Dr. Bernd Henningsen and Dr. Anna Sandberg about "Die deutsch-dänische Grenze. Geschichten von gestern und heute“ [de] . The event is organised in cooperation with the Goethe-Institut Denmark and the Danish-German Society. |
| 26/08 | Dr. Jutta Salminen gives a presentation titled Finnish negative indefinites as NPIs at the conference Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum at the University of Vienna (22-26/08/2022). |
| 24/08-27/08 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the conference Nordisk humor i världen at Lund University and gives a presentation on the Danish theatre maker and author Johan Ludvig Heiberg: Mad Hattery! Johan Ludvig Heiberg and the revolutionary invention of music comedy |
| 22-23/08 | Dr. Santeri Junttila co-organises the symposium Areal effects in prehistoric contacts between Uralic and Indo-European at the conference Congressus XIII Internationalis Fenno-Ugristarum at the University of Vienna (22-26/08/2022) and gives a presentation on the topic Finnic loanword studies in the 2010's. |
| 18-20/08 | Malin Bengtsson takes part in the "Konferens för svensklärare vid universitet och högskolor utanför Sverige", organised by Svenska Institutet. She gives a presentation on "Arbeit mit Liedtexten im Schwedischunterricht". |
| 09-11/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Laura Grewe M.A. take part in the International Study Days for Finnish Lecturers [de] at the University of Jyväskylä, organised by EDUFI, and present the joint autumn school project of the Universities of Prague, Warsaw, Greifswald and Cologne as an example of best practice. |
| 09/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the Finnish National Board of Education's Expert Council for Finnish Teaching Abroad. |
| 01-05/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the lecturers' conference in Fredericia organised by the Danish Language Ministry of Science. |
| 29/06 | Dr. Leszek Gardela from the Danish Nationalmuseet gives a presentation titled In Pursuit of the Jómsvikings: Jómsborg and its Crew in Scholarly Imagination within the framework of Josef Juergens' medieval studies seminar The Jómsvíkinga saga - Wikinger in der Ostsee. |
| 29/06-01/07 | Lecturer Arnt Sundstøl takes part in the Norwegian Lecturers' Conference in Freiburg. |
| 28/06-04/08 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim prepares her research project in Tallinn, Narva, Sillamäe and Tartu on the impact and effectiveness of nine-nationalist framing in Estonia. |
| 08/07 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim gives a presentation titled Finnish language legislation as a model for other multilingual societies? at the IFZO Annual Conference Baltic Sea in Exchange. Transformations between Conflict and Cooperation an participates in the panel discussion Role Models of Transformation in the Baltic Sea Region. |
| 01/07 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the advisory board of the Finnland-Institut of Germany in Berlin. |
| 28/06 | At the invitation of the Chair of Scandinavian Linguistics, Christian Donat, M.A. gives a presentation on his dissertation topic "Modalpartikeln im Norwegischen" in the seminar "Pragmatik und die skandinavischen Sprachen" (Dr. des. Laura Zieseler). |
| 28/06-01/07 | Dr. Ewelina Bator (University of Warsaw) holds lectures on the literature of Finland [de] at the Chair of Finnish Studies within the framework of her Ersamus+ guest stay. |
| 20/06 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller attends the summer reception of the state government at the State Representation of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the Federal Government in Berlin. |
| 16-17/06 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim takes part in the 19th Annual Conference of Applied Linguistics in Tartu and gives a presentation on the topic Eesti noorte keeleline oskus reflekteerida poliitilist raamistamist (On the linguistic ability of young Estonian people to reflect on political framing). |
| 03-05/06 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim accompanies the excursion to the seminar "Unter den Segeln der Hanse" organised by the Slavonic Studies Department in the Hanseatic town of Lübeck. She provides information about the Hanseatic period in Finland and Estonia and about opportunities for students of Russian to stay abroad in Estonia. |
| 01/06 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller gives a keynote speech in the higher education didactics series Lunchtalk digital on the topic of integrating international students using the example of the master's degree course Language Diversity(LADY). |
| 01-03/06 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel attends the conference "Nordic Neighbourhoods: Affinity and Distinction in the Baltic Sea Region and Beyond" at Södertörn University in Stockholm, where he talks to Lithuanian author Marius Ivaškevičius about images of Scandinavia and his play "Close City". |
| 31/05 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is invited to the reception of the state government of Schleswig-Holstein in Berlin. |
| 23-27/05 | Dr. Santeri Junttila takes part in the International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference (IFUSCO) in Prague and gives a joint presentation with Juha Kuokkala (Helsinki) on the Presentation of the Online Etymological Dictionary of Old Finnic Vocabulary (EVE). |
| 19-24/05 | Dr. Mikko Bentlin (Poznań) holds a block lecture on the sound history of Finnish as part of an Erasmus cooperation with the Uniwersytet in Adama. Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. |
| 19-20/05 | Activities within the framework of the University Information Days 2022: Dr. des. Laura Zieseler and Josef Juergens, M.A. give digital mini-lectures on the topics "Hey nørdar! Die skandinavischen Sprachen im Kontext computervermittelter Kommunikation" and "Wikingerhelme: Ohne Hörner, dafür mit umso mehr Bedeutung – Kulturgeschichtliches zu den Kammhelmen". Laura Grewe, M.A. & Dr. Thekla Musäus conduct an interactive language taster course "Finnisch". Dr. Thekla Musäus also gives the mini-lecture "Estland und Finnland als Kerngegenstand des Fachs Fennistik". |
| 19-21/05 | Dr. Jutta Salminen and Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim take part in the seminar Jung in Finnland [de] at the Nordeuropa-Institut of the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. |
| 18/05 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is elected 2nd Deputy Chair of the Academic Senate. He was also recently elected Deputy Chairman of the Senate's Statutes Commission. |
| 15-18/05 | The BMBF project "Baltische und ostseefinnische Sprachen im vorhistorischen Kontakt", based at the Chair of Finnish Studies, organises the interdisciplinary etymological symposium "Hansakansan kanssa" [de] in cooperation with the Alfried-Krupp-Wissenschaftskollegs in Greifswald, coordinated by Dr. Santeri Junttila and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller. |
| 16/05 | Dr. Santeri Junttila gives a public evening presentation at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald titled Lehnwortforschung, vorgeschichtliche Datierungen und Ideologie [de]. |
| 14/05 | Dr. Jutta Salminen gives a presentation titled "Kenetkään - kieltohakuinen totaaliobjekti toisen äänen kaiuttajana" [Kenetkään - the NPI accusative object as an echo of another voice] in a workshop on verbs, particles and polarity elements in Finnish (fi. Fokuksessa verbi, partikkelit ja polaariset ainekset: prosessi eri valoissa) at the Finnish Linguistics Days (Kielitieteen päivät) in Turku, 12-14 May 2022. |
| 13/05 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim presents a poster on the topic Sociolinguistic factors influencing the impact of nonnationalist linguistic framing on young spokespersons in Estonia and Latvia on the occasion of the visit of the MV Minister of Science and Culture, Bettina Martin to the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO). |
| 12/05 | Benjamin Schweitzer gives a presentation titled "Repetition and Variation in a Finnish Musical Discourse - A Case Study" at the conference Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Language and Culture, organised by the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies and the University of Tartu. |
| 11/05 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim moderates the panel event The Åland Islands Solution at a 100 - Insights for a Troubled World & Identity on the Islands of Peace - a Story of Rights, Ownership, and Autonomy [de] at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg Greifswald. |
| 11/05 | Translator Stefan Moster holds a seminar on translating Finnish and the profession of literary translator for students of Finnish Studies in Greifswald. |
| 09-10/05 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel takes part in the conference "Säkularisierung erzählen. Drafts of Scandinavian literature around 1900" at the Alfried Krupp Wissenschaftskolleg in Greifswald and gives a presentation on the secularisation narrative in Henri Nathansen's drama "Indenfor murene". |
| 06-16/05 | The 31st Nordische Klang is successfully held with around 40 events (concerts, exhibitions, readings, lectures). At the festival's opening ceremony, hosted by festival director Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, co-patron Minister-President Manuela Schwesig, Ambassador of the Republic of Estonia H.E. Alar Streimann, Mayor Dr. Stefan Fassbinder and Rector of the University of Greifswald Prof. Dr. Katharina Riedel deliver their greetings. The festival is officially opened by Counsellor Silje Arnekleiv on behalf of co-patron Anette Trettebergstuen, Minister of Culture and Equality of the Kingdom of Norway. |
| 05-07/05 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the International Finnish Conference of Germanists "Germanistik im Wandel"[de] in Oulu, northern Finland, with the presentation Diktatur, Clownerie und Hypnose im deutsch-finnischen Literaturkontakt. |
| 04/05 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the meeting of the Editorial Board of the journal "Avain. Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen aikakauslehti" of the Finnish Literary Society in Oulu. |
| 01-07/05 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen leads an excursion to Bornholm with a group of 22 students from the department. |
| 22/04-03/06 | Dr. Yrjö Lauranto (Helsinki) holds an online seminar on the syntax of the Finnish language within the framework of an OPH guest lectureship at the Chair of Finnish Studies. |
| 21-30/04 | Dr. Santeri Junttila holds lectures on etymological research into Finnish within the framework of an OPH guest lectureship at the University of Warsaw. |
| 20/04 | Finnish lecturer Dr. Jutta Salminen introduces Finnish lessons at a German university to a group of gymnasium (secondary school) students taught by Finnish native speaker Johanna Lampela at Kaurialan lukio (Hämeenlinna). |
| 17/04 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller gives a radio interview to SWR 2 on the subject of world creation myths and the Kalevala |
| 08-10 April | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the cultural conference of the German-Finnish Society in Rendsburg, which focuses on planning joint cultural projects for the calendar year 2023. |
| 06/04 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel presents the joint book "GRENZ\RAUM - GRÆNSE\REGION. Dänisch-deutsche Geschichte(n) 1920-2020" together with Prof. Dr. Bernd Henningsen at the Apenrade Central Library (Denmark). |
| 05/04 | Prof. Dr. Clemens Räthel is in Denmark and speaks at the invitation of Aarhus University on "Grænsedragning eller genforening? Tyske og danske perspektiver på 1920 og 2020". |
| 13/02-17/03 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim prepares her research project in Tallinn, Narva and Tartu on the impact and effectiveness of nine-nationalist framing in Estonia. |
| 10-11/03 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller, Dr. Thekla Musäus and M.A. Benjamin Schweitzer each give academic presentations at the Second International Conference of the FI-DACH research network organised by the University of Turku. |
| 20/01 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen gives a presentation titled"Kalaallit Nunaat - Kraina ludzi" at Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu. |
| 18/01 | The literary scholar and author Kristjan Haljak (Tallinn) gives a public evening presentation on the topic In Search of the Absolute: Surrealism in Estonian Poetry at the invitation of the Guest Department for Estonian Language and Culture. The event is funded by the Estonian Education and Youth Board (Harno). |
| 17/01 | At the invitation of Swedish lecturer Malin Bengtsson, literary scholar and translator Helena Rödholm-Siegrist gives a presentation on working as a translator, with practical aspects and linguistic problems in mind, in the advanced course "Skriftlig språkfärdighet". |
| 11-14/01 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is elected to the Academic Senate and the Faculty Council of Arts and Humanities in the committee elections. Dr. Thekla Musäus is also elected to the Faculty Council and achieves the highest number of votes. |
| 10-15/01 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist and Dr. des. Laura Zieseler conduct a seminar titled "Einführung in das Färöische" as a digital block course (24 SWS) at the University of Vienna. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2021
| 22/11-17/12 | Dr. Hanna Samola (Tampere) conducts a 20-hour teaching project on Finnish short prose [de] for Finnish Studies students in Greifswald within the framework of an EDUFI guest lectureship. |
| 14/12 | The literary scholar and author Kristjan Haljak (Tallinn) gives a public evening presentation on the topic of Ethnofuturism in Estonian literature: reimagening an experimental, fluid nationality at the invitation of the Guest Department for Estonian Language and Culture. The event is funded by the Estonian Education and Youth Board (Harno). |
| 13/12 | In the second consecutive year of the pandemic, the department celebrates its traditional Lucia Festival online in a Moodle course [de] specially created by the Department Student Council. The Nordsångare, coordinated by Rebekka Fricke and Laura Zieseler, once again perform as a digital Lucia procession. |
| 1/12 | Sara Lövestam, Swedish writer and teacher of Swedish as a foreign language, gives a presentation on the topic "Grejen med ordföljd: Allt du någonsin velat veta om satsdelar" (Topic: Sentence parts and how they are sorted). |
| 23/11 | Swedish cartoonist and comic artist Sara Granér gives a presentation titled "Om arbetsprocess, inspiration och Sverigebilder" via Zoom at the invitation of Swedish lecturer Malin Bengtsson within the framework of an advanced course. |
| 18-19/11 | The department’s lecturers organise an information forum on the topic of "Hiphop auf Nordeuropäisch"[de]. In the two-day programme [de], experts on the hip-hop and rap scenes in Finland (Inka Rantakallio, PhD, University of Helsinki), Estonia (Kristjan Haljak, M.A., University of Tallinn), Sweden (Johan Söderman, PhD, University of Gothenburg), Denmark (Peter Aagaard) and Norway (Øyvind Holen) discuss characteristic and current issues of Nordic hip-hop culture(s). There are also contributions on hip-hop in the Faroe Islands (Dr. des. Laura Zieseler) and Greenland (Jens Rasmussen) as well as on the musical semiotics of the hip-hop genre (Dr. Frithjof Strauß, University of Szczecin). |
| 10/11 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist accepted the invitation of Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and his wife Elke Büdenbender to the state banquet at Bellevue Palace in honour of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II and His Royal Highness Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark. |
| 10/11 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the literary event on the Danish writer Herman Bang (1857-1912) in the presence of Her Majesty Queen Margrethe II at the Literaturhaus Berlin. |
| 10/11 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen gives a presentation titled “Hip-hop i Grønland - fra og om Danmark” at the lecturers’ conference at the Literaturhaus Berlin. |
| 05/11 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in a forum at the invitation of the Finnish ambassador, which brings together Finnish actors active in Germany to discuss the prospects for the exchange of Finnish-German relations. |
| 4-6/11 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller organises the 21st International Authors' Conference "Junge Literatur in Europa" in cooperation with the Hans-Werner-Richter-Stiftung [de], in which 12 authors from 4 countries participate. |
| 15/10 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller participates virtually in the 20th German Finno-Ugric Conference in Cologne. He is unanimously elected spokesperson for the 21st German Finno-Ugric Conference. |
| 08-09/10 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller chairs the Federal General Assembly of the Deutsch-Finnischen-Gesellschaft in Wiesbaden with around 100 delegates from the regional associations of the friendship society, which has over 8000 members. |
| 08/10 | GreifswaldTV publishes a longer film feature [de] on Greifswald Finnish Studies, including interviews with students, honorary doctor Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen and chair holder Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller. |
| 07-08/10 | Malin Bengtsson takes part in the conference for teachers of Swedish, organised by the Swedish Department, the Swedish Embassy and the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg. |
| 07/10 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller presents the activities in teaching, research and ThirdMission of Greifswald Finnish Studies in a panel discussion at the Finnland-Institut of Berlin in the series Was machte eigentlich …. |
| 02/10 | Josef Juergens presents his doctoral project "Die Symbolkraft von Helm und Schild bei den germanischen Völkern" at the 16th supra-regional doctoral conference of Scandinavian Studies (organised by the Humboldt-Universität Berlin in cooperation with the University of Vienna). |
| 01-02/10 | Greifswald's Department of Finnish Studies organises the annual conference Finnischlehrenden im deutschsprachigen Raum (SuoSa) [de]. |
| 01/10 | The NDR-Kulturjournal publishes a radio feature [de] on Greifswald's Finnish Studies, including interviews with Finnish Ambassador Anne Sipiläinen, honorary doctor Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen and chair holder Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller. |
| 01/10 | The first lectureship for Finnish language and culture in the German-speaking region celebrates its 100th anniversary. Within the framework of the academic ceremony, the Finnish linguist Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen is awarded an honorary doctorate. |
| 27-30/09 | This year's Autumn School of Finnish Studies Abroad was held under the motto "Vielstimmigkeit". The lectures, presentations and workshops as well as the leisure programme [de] were attended by 45 students from the Universities of Warsaw, Prague, Cologne and Greifswald. Yvonne Bindrim presented the IFZO and her own research project within this framework. |
| 2-6/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the lecturer conference in Fredericia organised by the Danish Ministry of Science. |
| 31/07-11/08 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the cultural conference of the Deutsch-Finnischen Gesellschaft in Herford, which focuses on planning joint cultural projects for the year 2022. |
| 02/06 | The Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO) is opened, within the framework of which the Chair of Finnish Studies coordinates a cross-project sociolinguistic impact tool [de] with partial funding of €211,000. |
| 02/06 | In cooperation with FILI - Finnish Literature Exchange and Lukukeskus, the Chair of Finnish Studies welcomes the two-time Finlandia award winner Olli Jalonen and his German translator Stefan Moster to a virtual literature discussion. |
| 18/05 | The NDR-Kulturjournal publishes a radio feature [de] about the project "Neue Nordische Novellen VII" led by Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller. |
| 11/05 | Elina Kritzokat, translator and winner of the Finnish State Prize for Foreign Translators (2019), gives a guest lecture on the topic of ways to translate [de]. |
| 06-07/05 | Dr. Thekla Musäus takes part in the digital conference "Kirjallisuudentutkimuksen päivät 2021" at the University of Helsinki with the presentation "Haju ja moraali nykykirjallisuudessa". |
| 26/03 | Dr. Jutta Salminen gives a lecture "Mitä epäilemisen merkitys kertoo kiellon ja kielteisyyden välisestä suhteesta?" [What does the meaning of the verb epäillä "to doubt, suspect, assume" tell us about the ratio of negation and evaluative negativity] at the conference of the OSMA association (umbrella organisation of the professional associations of Finnish students in Finland). BA and MA Finnish Studies students from Greifswald also take part in the event. |
| 24/03 | Dr. Jutta Salminen takes part in the interdisciplinary Academy Club of the Young Academy of Sciences of Finland with the presentation "Epäilemisen merkityksestä kiellon ja evaluoivan kielteisyyden suhteen tarkastelussa" [On the meaning of the verb epäillä 'to doubt, suspect, assume' for the consideration of the ratio between negation and evaluative negativity]. |
| 01-04/03 | The advanced students and teachers of Greifswald's Finnish Studies take part in the Virtual International Finnish Studies Spring School in Cologne. The teachers and participants of the project came from the Universities of Greifswald, Prague, Warsaw and Cologne. |
| 21/01 | The Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Greifswald decides to award an honorary doctorate (Dr. phil. h. c.) to the Finnish linguist Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen [de] from the University of Turku with the approval of the Academic Senate. The honour will be bestowed within the framework of an academic ceremony to mark the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Greifswald Lectureship for Finnish Language in October 2021. With Prof. Dr. Kaisa Häkkinen, the Faculty of Arts and Humanities is honouring a long-standing cooperation partner who has made a special contribution to research into the Finnish language and academic communication. |
| 13/01 | For the seventh time, two students from the University of Greifswald are publishing the anthology Neue Nordische Novellen [de]. The anthology entitled "Zeitstücke" has been published by Heiner Labonde Verlag. It contains 53 short stories and poems that deal with the theme of time. 30 university students translated the texts into German for the first time from Danish, Estonian, Finnish, Icelandic, Latvian, Norwegian, Polish, Russian, Swedish, Czech and Ukrainian. Art students from the Caspar David Friedrich Institute added illustrations to the stories. |
Activities of the Department of Finnish and Scandinavian Studies in 2020
| 13/12 | Due to the coronavirus, the department is celebrating its traditional Lucia festival digitally on Moodle [de] this year, with a virtual appearance [de] by the bringer of light. |
| 11-12/12 | Dr. des. Laura Zieseler takes part in the virtual conference "Minderheitensprachen im digitalen Zeitalter. Sprachgebrauch, Spracherhalt, Sprachvermittlung [de]" with a presentation on the topic "Färöisch im Fokus: Digitale Einblicke in die kleinste nordgermanische Sprachgemeinschaft". |
| 11/12 | Dr. des. Laura Zieseler receives the 2020 Doctoral Prize of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities for her thesis "On the Integration of Non-Native Nouns in Faroese" [de]. |
| 08/12 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller takes part in the meeting of the advisory board of the Finnland-Institut in Germany in Berlin. |
| 24/11 | Deutschlandstipendien are awarded to two Finnish Studies students. The scholarship of the Deutsch-Finnische Gesellschaft e.V. is especially endowed for students who are studying Finnish Studies as a specialisation subject in the Master's degree in Language Diversity. The WGG scholarship is not allocated to a specific subject. |
| 18/11 | Dr. Yvonne Bindrim moderates an online event organised by the IFZO on the topic of "Patriotism, but make it fashion! - Sense of belonging through clothing in the new right in the post-communist Baltic Sea states" |
| WS 2020/21 | Prof. Dr. Christer Lindqvist conducts a digital lecture on "Faroese, Norn and the Celtic-Nordic Language Contact" at the University of Vienna. |
| 15/11 | Dr. Jutta Salminen is appointed to the Young Academy Finland. The committee works within the framework of the Finnish Academy of Science and engages in an interdisciplinary dialogue to support and raise the profile of young researchers. |
| 13-14/08 | Dr. Thekla Musäus gives a presentation titled "On the Border of Telling. Memories, Mobility and Borderline Situations in Modern Literature" at the webinar "Mobility, Materiality, and Trauma" at the Karelian Institute of Joensuu (Finland). |
| 11-14/08 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim take part online in the further education days for Finnish teachers abroad organised by EDUFI and in the regional conference for German-speaking countries. |
| 3-7/08 | Lecturer Jens Rasmussen takes part in the lecturer conference in Sønderborg organised by the Danish Ministry of Science. |
| 07/07 | The Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) will fund the establishment of the new international research training group "Baltic Sea Peripeties. Reformations, Revolutions, Catastrophes" at the University of Greifswald. The University of Tartu in Estonia and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Norway are co-operation partners. The Research Training Group is due to start work in April 2021. A total of just over 4 million euros is available for an initial period of four and a half years. Prof. Dr. Schiedermair (LMU Munich since 04/2020) was the lead applicant and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller was the applicant. |
| 22/06 | The Greifswald postdoc researcher Santeri Junttila presents the web-based etymological dictionary project he is leading in the Karelian-language programme of Russian television, which is closely linked both technically and in terms of content to the Greifswald BMBF project "Baltic and Baltic-Finnish languages in prehistoric contact", which he has been leading in Greifswald since September 2019. |
| 17/06 | Dr. Thekla Musäus is elected to the Senate Commission "Self-Regulation in Science". |
| 8-26/06 | Laura Piippo (Jyväskylä) conducts a 20-hour teaching project on modern Finnish literature [de] for Finnish Studies students in Greifswald within the framework of an EDUFI guest lectureship. |
| 05/06 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller digitally takes part in the meeting of the advisory board of the Finnland-Institut in Germany in Berlin. |
| 22/04 | Dr. des Yvonne Bindrim is elected to the Equal Opportunities Commission and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller to the Budget and Structure Commission of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. Prof. Dr. Pantermöller is also elected to the Statutes Commission of the Academic Senate (deputy chair). |
| 15/04 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is elected Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities. |
| 20/03 | Finnish lecturer Jutta Salminen, M.A., B.Mus. successfully defends her dissertation for the degree Filosofian tohtori (FT, PhD) Epäilemisen merkitys: Epäillä-sanueen polaarinen kaksihahmotteisuus kiellon ja kielteisyyden semantiikan peilinä at the University of Helsinki. |
| 05-07/03 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim take part in the annual conference of Finnish teachers in German-speaking countries (SuoSa) at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. |
| 24/02 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim attend a reception at the Embassy of the Republic of Estonia in Berlin [de] on the occasion of the 102nd National Day. |
| 13-14/02 | Dr. Thekla Musäus, Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim and Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller (conference co-organiser) each give presentations at the kick-off conference of the international research network FI-DACH in Cologne. |
| 03-04/02 | Dr. des. Yvonne Bindrim contributes linguistic input to the workshop New Nationalisms in the Baltic Sea Regions at Stockholm University on the development of a research cluster for the Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research |
| 31/01 | Laura Zieseler, M.A. successfully completes the defence of her dissertation on the topic "On the Integration of Non-Native Nouns in Faroese". |
| 30/01 | At the invitation of the Chair of Scandinavian Linguistics, Prof. Dr. Hjalmar P. Petersen from the University of the Faroe Islands (Fróðskaparsetur Føroya) gives a guest lecture on "Inner and Outer Causes behind Syntactic Changes in Faroese". |
| 23/01 | The results of a comprehensive study of higher education in the Finnish arts are presented in Helsinki within the framework of a highly acclaimed event [de]. Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller was a member of the eight-person expert group, which based its analysis results on 127 study programmes, numerous interviews and background surveys. |
| 14/01 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller is appointed to the Finnish National Board of Education's Expert Council on Teaching Finnish Abroad as a foreign representative for a further term of office. |
| 07-09/01 | Prof. Dr. Marko Pantermöller and Dr.Thekla Musäus are re-elected as representatives to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities' Faculty Council in the academic committee elections. |