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The UL Livonian Institute visits colleagues in the nordic countries
In June 2019, UL Livonian Institute director Valts Ernštreits visited the institute’s colleagues in the Nordic countries – activists, keepers, and researchers of Sámi and …
Finno-Ugric activists made proposals at the UN for the protection of languages
12th session of the UN Expert Mechanism on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples started with the celebration of the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages. International …
International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples – 9 August 2019ee
United Nations celebrates the Day of World´s Indigenous Peoples on the 9ht of August with a special event to highlight the critical need to revitalize, preserve …
The Livonian Culture Day and Livonian Community House 80 years
The Livonian Culture day and the 80th birthday of the Livonian Community House will be celebrated on the 2nd and 3rd of August this year. …
Twenty speakers, but three poets: writing in Livonian
Livonian is a Finno-Ugric language related to Finnish and Estonian. Once, hundreds of years ago, it was spoken throughout much of Latvia, but over the …
Indigenous Languages and Endangered Cultures conference to take place in Hungary
Indigenous Languages, Endangered Cultures conference will take place in november 28–29th in 2019. Call for conference abstracts is open until September the 18th. The United …
The 27th song and 20th dance celebration My Fatherland is My Love will take place in Tallinn from July 4–7, 2019
In 2019 Estonia will festively celebrate the 150th anniversary of the song celebration – the first song celebration was held in Estonia in 1869. This summer …
Call for Applications/Nominations: UNESCO International Literacy Prizes
The 2019 – International Year of Indigenous Languages shares: We are pleased to share with you the call for applications and nominations of the UNESCO …
Finno ugric films in old Estonian manor
Already second year in a row a small but international film festival FUFF (Finno Ugric Film Festival) takes place in Sänna Culture Manor. It doesn’t …
Videos of Fenno-Ugria Night showcase at Tallinn Music Week 2019
Fenno-Ugria is happy to publicize the videos of our performers at Fenno-Ugria Night showcase at the festival of tomorrows music, arts and ideas – Tallinn Music …
The VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples will take place in Tartu, Estonia
The VIII World Congress of Finno-Ugric Peoples will take place from the 17th to 19th in June 2020, in the recently opened Estonian National Museum. The main …
Students of finno-ugric studies gathered at IFUSCO conference in Vienna, Austria
A yearly multilingual conference of students of finno-ugric studies from around the world (IFUSCO) took place from 24th-28th of April in Vienna, Austria. Alltogether 130 …