Invited public talks and presentations
- a selection
2019
June 26, 2019
Närpes (Red & Green, Mitt i stan), Finland
Org.: Nordkurs; Kurs om finlandssvenskt språk,
samhälle, litteratur och kultur
Invited presentation: "Landsbygdsvarieteter i ett
senmodernt Österbotten" ['Rural varieties in a late
modern Ostrobothnia']
2018
April 16, 2018
Uppsala, Sweden
Org.: Finlandssvenskar i Uppsala (FSU) - Finlandssvenskarnas riksförbund i Sverige (FRIS)
Invited presentation together with Leila Mattfolk:
"Hur mår egentligen dialekterna i Svenskfinland?" ['What is really the status of dialects in Swedish-language Finland?']
2017
November 23, 2017
Vaasa (Vasa), Finland
Org.: SLS [Svenska litteratursällskapet]
Invited participation in panel discussion on Hemma igen – Populärmusik på finlandssvenskt talspråk ['Home again – Popular music in Finland-Swedish varieties'] Presentation on "Sångtexter på dialekt, performans och senmodernitet" ['Songs in dialect, performance, and late modernity']
2016
October 31, 2016
Dialektens dag; Karleby, Finland
Org.: Dialektens vänner
Invited presentation:
"'Va je an de nyy sjiitin betär enn an de gaambäl', saa Hindrikas-Ann, tå on tvetta tjoolin." Om ordstäv, dialekter och identitet
Very much under construction
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
October 26
Studia Generalia Lecture series
Org.: University of Helsinki
Invited presentation: "Med Norden mot toppen"
Presentations and discussions of an administrative nature
- a selection
2020
April 18, 2020
Uppsala university, Sweden
Faculty of Humanities, Department of English
Stand-by External examiner at PhD examination:
Erika Berglind Söderqvist, Evidential marking in spoken english.Linguistic functions and gender variation
2019
September 10, 2019
Dalarna university, Falun
Research-seminar presentation (ISTUD):
"Om att ansöka om forskningsmedel. Tio personliga budord"
['On applying for research funding. Ten personal
commandments']
August 29, 2019
Dalarna university, Falu gruva
Research-seminar presentation to ISTUD and UL
researchers:
Catharina Nyström Höög, Annelie Ädel & Jan-Ola Östman,
Plan för projektansökan: skyltar och säkerhetsdiskurs ['Plans for a research project on Signs and Security']
April 24, 2019
Dalarna university, Avesta
with Catharina Nyström Höög on the importance of
research on languages
February 7, 2019
Dalarna university, Falun
Presentation (together with Catharina Nyström Höög and Annelie Ädel) of the SOS-project ('language and security') to the SSH professors' committee meeting at Dalarna university
2018
November 12–13, 2018
Chair, session on language policy at the conference Modersmål, minoritet och mångfald. Flerspråkiga identiteter i en nordisk utbildningskontext ['Mother tongue, minority and diversity. Multilingual identities in Nordic educational contexts']
Falun, Sweden
Org.: Swedish as a Second Language, Dalarna University
September 6–7, 2018
Tällberg, Sweden
Org.: IKSS, Dalarna University
Invited presentation:
"Handledning – tio viktiga punkter" ['Supervision – ten important points']
2017
November 17, 2017
PhD defense; candidate: Johanna Ledin
Thesis: "Annan-orientering i masskommunicerande brevtexter. En tentativ modell" ['Other-orientation in mass communicating letter texts. A tentative model']
Department of Humanities, education and social science; Swedish language, Örebro university
Member of External Examination Committee
September 1
Closing seminar of the LIVS project on Finland-Swedish Sign Language, Helsinki
Brief video greeting in Swedish
July 16-21
The 15th International Pragmatics Conference; Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom
Org.: International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
Opening of the conference; various duties at General Assembly and Closing of the conference - as President of IPrA
June 2, 2017
PhD defense; candidate: Carl Börstell
Thesis: "Object marking in the signed modality - Verbal and nominal strategies in Swedish Sign Language and in other sign languages"
Department of Linguistics, Stockholm university
Member of External Examination Committee
May 5, 2017
More parallel, please! Om engelsk og de nordiske sprog på Nordens universiteter nu og conference; Oslo, Norway
The final conference of the Nordic parallel language group, established in 2013 by the Nordic Council of Ministers
Member of the group and chair of one discussion session
Under construction
2016
2015
June 8
Internal examiner of PhD dissertation, University of Helsinki, Ivalo
2014
2013
2012
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