Time: Thursday 23.10.2025, 11:00-17:00 (EEST)
Venue: Zoom & Tampere University, City centre Main building, Cafe Aula Toivo (A203a)
Language policy: English, flexilingual
You are warmly welcome to participate in the final seminar of the LANGAWARE project, funded by Kone Foundation 2023-25. At the seminar, we will share experiences, results as well as challenges of participatory practice within the framework of Sociolinguistics. The first part of the day will be devoted to presenting and discussing key observations of the LANGAWARE project. The second half will feature presentations by fellow European Sociolinguistic projects based on participatory practices.
The zoom link will be distributed to all registered participants.
Program 23.10.20205 (11-17 EEST)
11:15 Opening
11:30 Kaarina Hippi & Johanna Vaattovaara: Exploratory co-research on ‘language regard’ - academic and lay approaches in dialogue
12:00 Helmi Marttila: Working for understanding subtitling as a task of paraprofessionals
12:30 Olli Kuparinen: Self-report method as means of monitoring linguistic change – findings and further ideas
13:00 Lunch break (served at the venue)
14.00 Discussion session
14:30 Barbara Soukup, University of Vienna: Citizen Science with Viennese high schoolers in the project 'VisibLL' - Outcomes, impacts, learnings
15:15 Break with refreshments
15:30 Christoph Purschke, University of Luxembourg: Participation, motivation and social gaze control in the Lingscape project
16.15 Unn Røyneland, University of Oslo: Language activism and the role of scholars
17:00 Closing
Organiser
LANGAWARE research project, University of Tampere