Invited academic talks

Guest lectures, invited talks and other academic presentations


Upcoming


2024


April 23, 2024

Uppsala Senioruniversitet –Uppsala University of the Third Age, Sweden

Ellen Bijvoet & Jan-Ola Östman, guest lecture in the lecture series Svenska dialekter förr och nu ['Dialects of Swedish yesterday and today']: "Dialekten i dag – migranter möter den dialektala lokalbefolkningen" ['The dialect today – migrants encountering the dialectal local population']


February 28, 2024

[with Annelie Ädel]

Presentation of the book Risk Discourse and Responsibility, ed. by Ädel & Östman.


February 27, 2024

Uppsala Senioruniversitet –Uppsala University of the Third Age, Sweden

Jan-Ola Östman, guest lecture in the lecture series Svenska dialekter förr och nu ['Dialects of Swedish yesterday and today']: "'Östsvenska' med fokus på de österbottniska dialekterna" ['"Eastern Swedish" – with a focus on dislects in Ostrobothnia']


February 15, 2024

The Finnish Society of Sciences and Letters

Symposium on Languages and understanding.

Central Library Oodi, Helsinki, Finland

Jan-Ola Östman, invited talk on "Förståelse handlar inte bara om språk – om integration till landsbygden" ['Understanding is not only a matter of language – on integration to rural areas']



2023


October 4–5, 2023

Invited commentator at the symposium Folkligt skrivande 1750–1950. Dagböcker som källor till vardagligt liv och emancipatoriskt skrivande ['Writing from below 1750–1950. Diaries as sources to everyday life and emancipatory writing]. Åbo Akademi University, Finland.


October 2, 2023

Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Spremi – the Graduate seminar in linguistics

Invited guest lecture

Jan-Ola Östman: "Construction Grammar forty years after: Constructions all the way up!"


July 9–14, 2023

The 18th International Pragmatics Conference, Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles), Belgium

Jan-Ola Östman: Invited discussant presentation for the Panel on Revisiting ideologies of English in the Nordic countries


May 10, 2023

Dalarna University, Sweden

Seminar presentation (Forum för språkvetenskap)

Annelie Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman,

"Adrenaline hunting in “arctic Lapland”: Positive and negative risk in adventure tourism discourse"


March 14, 2023

Uppsala Senioruniversitet – Uppsala University of the Third Age, Sweden

Jan-Ola Östman & Ulla Börestam, guest lecture in the lecture series Alla tiders svenska ['Swedish of all times']: "Med engelskan i carry-on-bagaget – de nordiska språken i globaliseringens tidevarv" ['With English in the carry-on luggage – the Nordic languages in the age of globalization']


2022


November 3–4, 2022

Nordica, University of Helsinki, Finland

Symposium on Finland-Swedish sign language: “Med rätt att teckna” [‘With the right to sign’]

Invited presentation:

“Från ‘minoritetsspråk inom minoritetsspråk’ till … ’språk’ – Över 20 år av forskning i finlandssvenskt teckenspråk vid Helsingfors universitet”

Invited panelist in Panel discussion on the future of FinSSL


October 28, 2022

Dalarna University, Sweden

Seminar presentation

Annelie Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman:

“Reflections on a linguistic research project foregrounding societal relevance: From SOS to risk discourse”


May 24, 2022

Workshop (org. by The DiaPass Project) on Diachrony of passive voice in North Germanic, Poznan, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland

Invited presentation:

"Passives from constructional perspective: In search of a functional tertium comparationis"


May 13–14, 2022

English Department, Åbo Akademi University, Finland

Secret Seminar [for Tuija Virtanen]

Invited presentation:

“Responsibility in Construction Discourse”


March 31 - April 1, 2022

Uppsala University, Scandinavian languages, Sweden

Symposium on Variationslingvistik ['Variational linguistics']

Invited panelparticipant in panel on the future of variational linguistics


February 19, 2022

FinnFest2022, U.S.A.: Multilingual Finland

Invited presentation (Zoom):

"The Past, Present, and Future of Swedish in Finland"


2021


December 17, 2021

Uppsala University, Scandinavian languages: language testing group; Winter conference in Aronsborg, Sweden 

Invited presentation:

Ungdomars ansvar för klimatet - om att analysera undermedvetna attityder i uppsatser ['Adolescents' responsibility for the climate - on analyzing subconscious attitudes in essays']


September 15, 2021

Stockholm University, Dept of Swedish Language and Multilingualism

Invited guest lecture/seminar on

"Från plats till ställe på vykort: Om ansvar, det perifera och appropriering - och om framväxten av 'Det Moderna' i Svenskfinland"['From space to place on postards: On responsibility, the periphery and appropriation – and on the emergence of Modernity in Swedish-language Finland']


May 5, 2021

Dalarna University, Falun, Sweden

Annelie Ädel, Catharina Nyström Höög & Jan-Ola Östman, Forskardagen-presentation of the EXIT project:

"Risk and responsibility: Voices from low-risk workplaces"


February 3, 2021

University of Helsinki, Finland

Guest seminar at Scandinavian languages:

"ERSA-projektet, eller Inomeuropeisk migration på landsbygden: Narrativ positionering och identitetskonstruktion" ['The ERSA project (European migration to Rural Swedish-language Areas), or Europe-internal migration to the countryside: Narrative positioning and identity construction']


2020


December 15, 2020

Dalarna University, Sweden

Intercultural Language Studies

Annelie Ädel, Catharina Nyström Höög & Jan-Ola Östman, Work in progress presentation of the EXIT project plus: "In case of emergency: A discourse perspective on evacuation practices"


November 26, 2020

University of Oulu, Finland

Invited lecture/seminar on the PhD course "Usage-based grammar: what is it and how do we apply it?"

Presentation: "Construction Discourse: Context, Responsibility, andthe Periphery"


November 19, 2020

University of Oulu, Finland

Invited lecture/seminar on the PhD course "Usage-based grammar: what is it and how do we apply it?"

Presentation: "Inomeuropeisk migration på landsbygden: Narrativ positionering och identitetskonstruktion" ['Europe-internal migration to the countryside: Narrative positioning and identity construction']


October 22, 2020

Uppsala University, Sweden

Guest seminar at the English department:

"Discourse, Responsibility, and the Periphery"


2019


December 16, 2019

Uppsala university, English department

Workshop on "Language Contact: Heritage Languages and Beyond"

Invited presentation:

"Intra-European Migration to Rural Areas: Identity construction among dialect speakers"


November 11, 2019

University of Gothenburg, Swedish

Invited presentation:

"Konstruktionsdiskurs (CxD) som den ultimata grammatiken" ['Construction Discourse (CxD) as the ultimate grammar']


November 6, 2019

Uppsala university, Scandinavian languages

Seminar presentation

Ellen Bijvoet, Lena Ekberg, Lise Hansen, Margareta Svahn & Jan-Ola Östman, ”Dialekt och flerspråkighet: Inomeuropeisk invandring till landsbygd i Sverige och Svenskfinland" ['Dialect and multilingualism: European migration to rural Swedish-language areas']


September 25, 2019

Dalarna university, Falun

UL-seminar presentation:

"Invandrares identitetspositionering via språk:
Om att hitta tillhörighet på landsbygden" ['Immigrants' identity positioning through language: On finding social belonging in rural areas']


May 21, 2019

Dalarna university, Falun

ISTUD-seminar with Catharina Nyström Höög & Annelie Ädel on Language and security (the SOS Project), esp. on warning signs


March 26, 2019

Uppsala, Uppsala university

Org.: Sällskapet för svensk dialektologi ['The Swedish dialectology society']

Presentation: "Ungdomar och dialekter i ett senmodernt Österbotten" ['Adolescents and dialects in a late modern Ostrobothnia']


2018


November 23, 2018

Seminar on "Det nordiske klasserum" ['The Nordic classroom']; Schæffergården (outside Copenhagen)

Org.: Nordiske Sprogpiloter & NordSpråk, Nordisk Sprogkoordination

Invited presentation:

"Språksituationen i vårt senmoderna Norden – och språkvetarens ansvar" ['The linguistic situation in our late modern Norden – and the responsibilities of the linguist']


October 16, 2018

Dalarna  University, Falun, Sweden

Org.: Humtank & ISTUD

Invited presentation:

"Språkets makt och språkvetarens ansvar" ['The power of language and the responsibilities of linguists']


October 8-9, 2018

Mid-Sweden university, Sundsvall, Sweden

Workshop on "Bilden av det svenska" ['Swedish in pictures']

Co-organizer of workshop and presentation on  "Från plats till ställe på vykort: ansvar, appropriering och etnicitet" ['From space to place on postcards: responsibility, appropriation and ethnicity']


September 13, 2018

Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden

Org.: School of Culture and Learning

Invited presentation:

"Språk, ansvar och språkvetenskaparnas ansvar:

Migration, parallellspråkighet och periferins betydelse" ['Language, responsibility and the responsibility of linguists: Migration, parallel language use and the importance of the periphery']


April 20, 2018

Sundsvall, Sweden

Org.:  Swedish/Humanities, Mid-Sweden University (Ann-Catrine Edlund)

Invited guest lecture:

"Immigration, dialekt och språkvetenskapligt ansvar – Vad är det som sker på landsbygden i svenska Österbotten?!" ['Immigration, dialect and linguistic responsibility - What's happening in rural Swedish-language Ostrobothnia?!']


April 12, 2018

Uppsala, Sweden

Org.: Adolf Noreen-sällskapet, Department of Scandinavian languages,  Uppsala university

Invited presentation at the association's annual meeting:

"Migration, ansvar och identitet: den tredje positionen hos bosnier i svenska Österbotten" ['Migration, responsibility and identity: The  third position of Bosnians in Swedish-language Ostrobothnia']


March  21, 2018

Stockholm, Sweden

Org.:  Department of Swedish Language and Multilingualism, Stockholm university

Invited presentation  - the Annual Olle Josephson  Talk:

"Språkforskning och ansvar. Om parallellspråkighet och om immigration till landsbygden" ['Linguistics and responsibility. On parallel language use and on immigration to rural areas']


February 8-9, 2018

Helsinki, Finland

Symposium on Svenskan och språkundervisning i det flerspråkiga klassrummet ['The Swedish language and language teaching in  the multilingual classroom']

Org.: FNF [Föreningen för Nordisk Filologi, 'The Nordic Philology Society']

Invited presentation:

"Om att nyanlända till den svenska landsbygden i Finland: Ansvar" ['On newly arriving in the Swedish-language countryside in Finland: Responsibility']


2017


December 8, 2017

Seminar in honor of prof. Jef Verschueren on the occasion of his retirement

Org.: University of Antwerp, Belgium

Invited presentation:

"The Open Society and its Linguistic Responsibilities"


December 8, 2017

Frank Brisard's lecture series  on  Pragmatics and grammar; University of Antwerp, Belgium

Org.: Department of  Linguistics

Guest lecture on  "Pragmatics in Construction Grammar"


September 14-15, 2017

Workshop om språk, mangfold og ansvar ['Workshop on language, diversity and responsibility']

UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø

Org.: Florian Hiss (Project on "Linguistic and Cultural Diversity at Work")

Invited  presentation on "LIRA-projektet: Språk, integrering och ansvar i Österbotten" ['The LIRA project: Language, integration and responsibility']


August 24, 2017

Seminar in honor of prof. em. Helge Sandy, University of Bergen, Norway

Org.: Department of linguistic, literary and aesthetic studies

Invited presentation:

"'Dö kan ta påijtJin yyr byyin, men int byyin yyr påijtJin' - Om självkolonialiseringens förbannelse och välsignelse" 


April 18, 2017

Linguistics seminar; Uppsala university

Org.: Department of linguistics and philology

Invited seminar presentation:

"Constructions as cross-linguistic generalizations over instances: The case of passives"


April 2, 2017

Nordiske Sprogpiloter; Schæffergården (outside Copen-hagen)

Org.: Nordisk Sprogkoordination

Invited presentation:

"Språksituationen i vårt senmoderna Norden" ['The linguistic situation in our late modern Norden']


March 30, 2017

Linguistics seminar; Stockholm university

Org.: Department of linguistics

Invited seminar presentation:

"The Proper-Name-Phrase construction: Perspectives on the apposition-epithet controversy"


March 13

Michael Dunn's  lecture series  on  Language and Cognition; Uppsala university, Sweden

Org.: Department of  Linguistics and philology

Guest lecture on

"The Construction Grammar (CxG) and Construction Discourse (CxD) Perspectives on Cognition"


February 17

Seminar in honor of prof. em. Jan-Ola Östman: J, prAgmatics, liNgvistik,  discOurse, diaLekter, Ansvar; University of Helsinki

Org.: Department of Finnish, Finno-Ugrian and Scandinavian Studies, University of Helsinki

Farewell lecture:

"Makt som språk - Power as language"


February 6

Annual Multidisciplinary  Science & Humanities Meeting; topic 2017: "Languages: Nature, Humans, Machines"; Jerusalem, Israel

Org.: The Israel Academy of  Sciences and Humanities

Invited presentation:

"Language: Variable, adaptable - yet restrained"


2016


September 1-2

Nordiska språkmötet 2016: Ett flerspråkigt samhälle; University of Vaasa, Finland

Org.: Institutet för de inhemska språken, together with Nordisk språkkoordination and Nätverket för de nordiska språknämnderna

Invited presentation, together with Lena Ekberg:

"Språk och integration på landsbygden i svenska Österbotten" ['Language and integration in the Swedish-language Ostrobothnian countryide']


April 28

Symposium om Språket på landsbygden

Org.: Dialekt-, namn- och folkminnesarkivet i Göteborg (DAG), Sweden

Invited presentation, together with Lena Ekberg:

"Integration på närpesiska - språkbruk och språkkontakt på landsbygden i Svenskfinland" ['Integration in the Närpes dialect - language use and language contact in the countryside in Swedish-language Finland']


April 13-15

Workshop on Dialect acquisition and migration

Org.: Center for Multilingualism in Society across the Lifespan (Multiling), Oslo, Norway

Invited presentation, together with Lena Ekberg:

"Language and integration in rural areas: first- and second-generation dialect acquisition and identity construction"


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2015

April 10

Helsinki Lectures on Intersubjectivity

Org.: The Finnish Centre of Excellence in Intersubjectivity in Interaction; University of Helsinki, Finland

Invited presentation:

"Responsibility in Construction Discourse"


2014

May 16?

University of Antwerp, Linguistics

Invited presentation:


2013


2012


2011


2010


2009


November 5-7

FRIAS - Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany

Invited participation in Space Workshop I: Grammar, Space and Cognition


2008


June 11

Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm university

Invited presentation:

"Konstruktionsgrammatik och språkinlärning" ['Construction grammar and language learning']


2007


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Plenaries and Keynote presentations

at conferences and workshops


2022


May 4-6, 2022

Svenskans beskrivning 38 [Conference on the description of Swedish], Örebro University, Sweden

Invited plenary presentation:

Från "Dialekternas senmoderna plats: Om att trampa på samma ställe" till "Om plats och ställe som grammatiska verktyg" [Space and place as grammatical tools; toward a late modern dialectology]

 


2018


October 3-4, 2018

NOS-HS Workshop on New Trends in Nordic Socio-onomastics - Socio-onomastikens teori ['The theoretical underpinnings of Socio-onomastics'], Helsinki, Finland

Org.: NOS-HS & University of Helsinki

Invited presentation:

"Från ett pragmatiskt perspektiv på namn till ett onomastiskt perspektiv på språkbruk" ['From a pragmatic perspective on names to  an onomastic perspective on language use']


May 28-30, 2018

DiPVaC 4 conference, University of Helsinki, Finland

Org.: DiPVaC [Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change Research network]

Invited keynote presentation:

"Pragmatic particles, constructions, and responsibility"


2016


August 1-3, 2016

Europhras Conference; Trier University, Germany

Org.: Europäische Gesellschaft für Phraseologie

Invited plenary talk:

"There are constructions, and then there are idiomatic constructions: On constraining the variability of routine expressions"


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