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PLEJ Events

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.
Link to a trailer of the film from another film festival