I have been teaching my entire adult life; I started as a media teacher at an upper secondary school when I turned 20. Still, I have always strictly identified myself as a media, journalism and…
Yesterday, I was invited to attend two panel discussions, first one at the Human Rights Days (MR-dagarna) in Helsingborg and another at the inaugural event of a newly established local media hub in Gothenburg. Both…
Today, it’s the educational materials day in Sweden – in Swedish: Läromedlets dag! It’s a theme day initiated by The Swedish Association of Educational Writers. I’m one of their 1,700 members. (Besides, I’m also a…
Last week, my intensive week in Stockholm culminated with the opportunity to announce a new thesis competition for students in higher education. The Sweden-Finnish Delegation introduced a thesis competition, with an amount of 10 000…
Yesterday, I had a different task as a webinar moderator from the usual. We organized a memorial webinar in honour of the linguistic researcher Tove Skutnabb-Kangas who passed away in May. With all personal stories, it…
A couple of months ago, I made a post about my relationship to minority politics that could have been regarded as a closure of a chapter. Well, it was, but a new chapter opened sooner…
Finnish language is one of the national minority languages in Sweden. The number of speakers has, however, decreased during the past decades. After the governmental initiatives of language revitalization – of which the most visible…
During the past two years, I have been a lot more involved in the minority politics of the national minority language of Finnish in Sweden than I had ever imagined. I had been attending the…