PRE-CONGRESS 2020
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the CIFU XIII has been postponed to August 2021. In August 2020, a digital pre-congress was organized by Johanna Laakso and Jeremy Bradley, with technical administration by Tímea Pap. The abstracts to the presentations can be found via the links below; we will add links to additional material as soon as possible.
PROGRAMME
Monday, August 17
10:00 (CET) Opening
10:30 – 11:30 Plenary talk: Helena Ruotsala: An invisible border becomes visible again – how Covid-19 split the Tornio Valley in two. The case of the twin city of Tornio-Haparanda (Abstract)
11:30–13:00 Lunch break
General session:
- 13:00–13:30 Gleb Sumarokov: Points of intersection of Finnish and Slavic fantasy of second half of XX - early XXI centuries (Abstract)
- 13:30–14:00 Riku Erkkilä: The construal of the landmark as the basis of a grammatical distinction (Abstract)
- 14:00–14:30 Elena Vedernikova: Language choice among rural Mari families and their motives (Abstract; presentation)
- 14:30–15:00 Coffee break
- 15:00–15:30 Viktor Martinović: Gothic-Hungarian lexical contacts (Abstract; presentation; link to the author's github repository)
- 15:30–16:00 Sampsa Holopainen: Notes on the reflexes of Proto-Uralic sibilants in Hungarian (Abstract; presentation)
- 16:00–16:30 Yuliya Normanskaya: Platform LingvoDoc for collection and analysis of field and archive language materials (Abstract)
Tuesday, August 18
Symposium E2: The interdisciplinary past of the Uralic linguistic area
| 9:45–10:00 | Symposium opening (Outi Vesakoski) | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Outi Vesakoski & Michael Dunn | The role of historical linguistics in the interdisciplinary study of the human past (Abstract) |
| 10:30–11:00 | Kendra Willson | Uralic languages attested in runic inscriptions? (Abstract) |
| 11:00–11:30 | Jaakko Raunamaa | The Spread of Pre-Christian Finnic Personal Names in the Medieval Baltic Sea Area (Abstract) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Elina Salmela (presented by Päivi Onkamo) | Genetic studies of the Uralic-speaking populations: tools, results, and interpretations (Abstract) |
| 12:00–13:00 | Lunch break | |
| 13:00–13:30 | Kerttu Majander, Kerkko Nordqvist, Arkadii Korolev, Alexander Khokhlov, Roman Smolyaninov, Henny Piezonka, Päivi Onkamo, Johannes Krause, Wolfgang Haak | Genome-wide ancient DNA investigation of Eneolithic individuals from southwestern Russia reveals a genetic contact point between the forest-steppe and steppe populations (Abstract) |
| 13:30–14:00 | Galina Aksyanova | Anthropological assessment of the biodiversity of modern Ugric peoples (Abstract) |
| 14:00– | Closing discussion |
The following papers planned for this symposium will be presented at the CIFU in August 2021:
| Alexander Tkachev, Natalia Drozhashchikh, Katya Gyurdzhoyan & Elena Efimova | The Nenets prehistoric past through interdisciplinary lens: legend or reality? |
| Minerva Piha | Research historical perspectives on languages spoken in prehistoric Fennoscandia |
| Natalia Kuznetsova, Vyacheslav Kuleshov, Mehmed Muslimov, Oleg Balanovsky | Contacts of Ingrians and Votes in the light of linguistic, archaeological, anthropological, and genetic data |
| Sanni Peltola, Kerttu Majander, Nikolaj Makarov, Maria Dobrovolskaya, Kerkko Nordqvist, Johannes Krause, Elina Salmela & Päivi Onkamo | An ancient DNA perspective to the medieval language replacement in the upper Volga region |
| Yuri Berezkin & Evgeny Duvakin | Volga-Urals and West Siberian heritage in folklore of the Sámi and Baltic Finns |
| Alexander Savelyev, Leonid A. Vyazov, Yulia A. Salova, Elena E. Vorobeva & Oleg Balanovsky | The early Uralic-Turkic interaction in the Middle Volga region: an interdisciplinary perspective |
Wednesday, August 19
Symposium C4: Cultural Heritage, Identity Symbols and Traditions (Old, New, Invented)
| 9:45 | Symposium opening (Hanne Hieta) | |
| 10:00–10:30 | Elena Eltc | Museums of Vepsian culture and ethnocultural rights (Abstract) |
| 10:30–11:00 | László Mód | From the First Assembly to the National Togetherness. Changing meaning and use of a Hungarian cultural heritage site (Abstract) |
| 11:00–11:30 | Janika Oras & Liina Saarlo | From folklore to narodnoye tvorchestvo: performing runo-song on stage (Abstract; text; slides) |
| 11:30–12:00 | Anya Shatilova | St. Petersburg Brings Back Its Past: An Exploration of Ingrian Musical Heritage within an Urban Space (Abstract; presentation text and slides) |
| 12:00– | Closing discussion |
According to our current stand of planning, the following presentations originally planned for this symposium will be given at the CIFU XIII in August 2021, in the second part of the symposium organized by László Mód:
| Natalia Matrosova & Lidia Matrosova | Partnership cooperation for universities and preschool organizations to apply the traditions of ethnopedagogy of Finno-Ugric peoples |
| László Felföldi | About the dance traditions of the Finno-Ugric peoples as cultural heritage |
| Aivar Jürgenson | Siberian Estonians in their mother country - adaptation in last decades. |
| Marko Jouste | Own, "Mixed" and "Borrowed" Songs – The Makings of Diverse Modern Saami Musical Culture in Finland |
| Yuri Perevozchikov | The Summer Barn Kenos in the Udmurt Homestead: Its Ethnographic Significance and Identity Symbolism |
| Tatiana Titova & Elena Gushchina | Mordva-karatai: identity, language, tradition (case-study of the village of Mordovsky Karatay, Kamsko-Ustinsky district of the Republic of Tatarstan, Russian Federation) |