IFUSCO (International Finno-Ugric Students' Conference) is an annual international conference for and by the students of Finno-Ugric languages. IFUSCO conference contains presentations on linguistics,

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, folkloristics, archaeology, history,

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, literature, translation theory, sociology, law, music, mythology, regional issues, education, economics etc., that are connected to the lives of speakers of Finno-Ugric languages.

History

IFUSCO was created in 1984 in Göttingen by local students of Finno-Ugric studies, to facilitate contact between other students. The conference was initially a small gathering that mainly served as a forum and as a way of exchanging information. The first IFUSCO had 26 participants from the Netherlands (Groningen) and Germany (Göttingen, Hamburg). Later it has turned into a conference format where lectures are given by and for students, and every year it is organized in a different city by a different university. There have been 32 IFUSCOs, as in 2001 the conference was canceled. The first conference on the territory of Russia was held in 1999 in Syktyvkar.

Locations and dates

Göttingen: May 25–27, 1984 Hamburg: 1985

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: 1986 Budapest: May 24–28, 1987 Helsinki: May 22–26, 1988 Vienna: May 14–18, 1989

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: 1990 Greifswald: May 19–23, 1991 Munich: 1992 Prague: 1993 Poznań: 1994 Szeged: 1995 Hamburg: April 24–28, 1996 Turku: May 20–24, 1997 Pécs: May 20–25, 1998

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: May 10–14, 1999 Tallinn: August 3–7, 2000 Helsinki: September 11–15, 2002

: September 24–26, 2003 Budapest: May 3–8, 2004 Izhevsk: May 12–15, 2005 Yoshkar-Ola: May 12–15, 2006 Saransk: May 15–19, 2007 Helsinki: May 14–18, 2008 Petrozavodsk: May 14–16, 2009 Kudymkar: May 14–16, 2010 Budapest: May 9–11, 2011

: May 8–11, 2012

: May 6–8, 2013 Göttingen: April 9–11, 2014 Pécs: April 16–19, 2015 Helsinki: September 15–18, 2016 Warsaw: September 18-22, 2017

: May 2-5, 2018 Vienna: April 23-27, 2019

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: 2020 (Postponed due to COVID-19)

: 2021 (Online due to COVID-19) Prague: May 23-27, 2022

Emblem

Every hosting students’ committee is presenting a unique emblem of the year event that serves as a logo for the whole conference.

Conference IFUSCO – 2016

Originally IFUSCO was supposed to be held in Khanty-Mansiysk on 7–9 April 2016. It was postponed twice before finally being cancelled. However, the Finnish students of Finno-Ugric studies organized its small version at the University of Helsinki in order to keep the tradition.

References

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