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published on a bi-annual basis by the

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’s Department of Folklore Studies."About". ''RMN Newsletter''. University of Helsinki website. Online
/ref> Published in both digital and print editions, ''RMN Newsletter'' covers topics relevant to

folkloristics Folklore studies (also known as folkloristics, tradition studies or folk life studies in the UK) is the academic discipline devoted to the study of folklore. This term, along with its synonyms, gained currency in the 1950s to distinguish the ac ...

linguistics Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The areas of linguistic analysis are syntax (rules governing the structure of sentences), semantics (meaning), Morphology (linguistics), morphology (structure of words), phonetics (speech sounds ...

history History is the systematic study of the past, focusing primarily on the Human history, human past. As an academic discipline, it analyses and interprets evidence to construct narratives about what happened and explain why it happened. Some t ...

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of Artifact (archaeology), artifacts, architecture, biofact (archaeology), biofacts or ecofacts, ...

, and

philology Philology () is the study of language in Oral tradition, oral and writing, written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also de ...

, especially in the areas of Germanic studies, Finno-Ugric studies, and Baltic studies. The publication places particular emphasis on what the journal refers to as "retrospective methods", a

research method Research is creative and systematic work undertaken to increase the stock of knowledge. It involves the collection, organization, and analysis of evidence to increase understanding of a topic, characterized by a particular attentiveness to ...

that compares material recorded in differing periods.See for example Heide, Eldar. 2010. "Why a Network for Retrospective Methods?". ''RMN Newsletter'', 1, pp. 6-7. University of Helsinki. Online

/ref> Since its inception in December 2010, the journal has been edited by Frog, a University of Helsinki

docent The term "docent" is derived from the Latin word , which is the third-person plural present active indicative of ('to teach, to lecture'). Becoming a docent is often referred to as habilitation or doctor of science and is an academic qualifi ...

. ''RMN Newsletter'' originated as a development of the Retrospective Methods Network, a coalition of academics who launched the journal at a conference for the organization, ''New Focus on Retrospective Methods'' (September 13–14, 2010).

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