PLEJ News and Events

 PLEJ Events 

• 28 March 2026, Going local in language education: Cities as sites for cross-sectoral connection
• 28 January 2026, in person, Reclaiming our Story: Sámi Cinema and the Sovereignty of Storytelling, 17:00 - 18:30
• 28 January 2026, in person, Film screening: Duj Džene – Ketten – Two Together (2025), 18:30 - 20:00
• Book Launch: Re-imagining language and communication in collaborative projects (30 October 2025, 4-6pm)
• The Thankless Foreigner: A discussion with Irena Brežná (11 June 2025, 6:30 pm–8:30 pm)
• A Grammar of Elfdalian (01 November 2024, 2:00 pm–3:30 pm)
• Launch Event: Challenging Whiteness in Europe: Linguistic Citizenship and Social Inclusion for Multilingual Minorities (28 October 2024, 3:00 pm–6:00 pm)

PLEJ News

• A student-led exhibition Bringing Nyugat to Life: ‘The West and all that it holds’ ran in the SSEES library from 13 March to 30 April 2025, with an enriching opening reception and curators’ talk held on 19 March 2025. This collaborative curation was supported by Dr Eszter Tarsoly. Student Associate for PLEJ, Hayley Anderson, wrote the following blog post detailing the experience: Bringing Nyugat to Life: A Student Exhibition at the SSEES Library | UCL SSEES Research Blog
• The PLEJ team, Jelena Ćalić, Eszter Tarsoly and Riitta-Liisa Valijärvi, took part in the  Linguistic Injustice and Inequality in the Public Domain conference on 7 March held at the University of Stirling. Jelena and Eszter presented a paper titled “’Language stories’ of multilingualism: de-centering the monolingual public space” on the panel Decolonisation: moving beyond a monolingual Western model. Riitta and Eszter presented the paper  “Linguistic human rights and linguistic citizenship – the case of Meänkieli and Romani” on the Language rights access and revitalisation panel. Both papers were very well received, and followed up in many fruitful conversations.
• Dr Eszter Tarsoly gave an invited talk, jointly with Dr János Imre Heltai, on Citizen Science and Decolonial Thinking: a Collaborative Linguistic Ethnographic Project for Social Justice at the conference Contemporary Challenges: Citizen Science in the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Pécs, Hungary, on 2 December 2024.
• Dr Riitta Valijarvi gave a keynote talk on Linguistic Variation and Language Revitalisation at the conference Perspectives on the Revitalization of Minority Languages on 22 November 2024 at Södertörn University, Stockholm, Sweden.
• Dr Riitta Valijarvi discussed the first Skolt Sámi feature-length Je’vida film (Katja Gauriloff, 2023) at the European Psychoanalytic Film Festival 16 November 2024 in London.