Prof. Hakosalo talks about the role of historians as crisis communicators. And finally, Dr. Del Fante's plenary focuses on the role of language in understanding crises: is there a common underlying factor in the way language is used to make sense of, understand, and respond to a crisis?

Prof. McEnery (@tonymcenery.bsky.social) will discuss Brexit, taking a long-term view on British discourses about Europe. Prof. Koskela discusses Rhetorical Arena Theory that provides a lens for analyzing how crisis situations are actively constructed through discourse.

It is the week of the LanCris Conference! We are very excited to hear about new research related to language and crises. #lancris2026 In addition to over 40 paper presentations, we will have four keynote speeches that look at languaging crises from four different perspectives:

How do we persuade someone to act against their initial intentions? How do we reshape what they think about an issue? See the Call for Papers for Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language November 19-20, 2026, at Tampere University, Finland

On the week of FINSSE-12, the University of Oulu will also host the CMC-Corpora 2026 conference for which FINSSE participants are more than welcome to sign up too. Check out cmc2026.org and stay for the whole week up north!

Call for Papers for FINSSE's next biannual conference is open! FINSSE-12 will be held at the University of Oulu, 24–25 August 2026.

📢 The University of Oulu is looking for a Doctoral Researcher (English, Languages and Literature, Faculty of Humanities). The position is part of the SafeEarth research programme, funded by the Research Council of Finland, under the theme Language use and Comprehensive security. Apply by 23 Feb.

Interested in studying parliamentary language? Workshop at the Finnish Conference of Linguistics, University of Eastern Finland: "Video recordings and transcribed records of parliamentary debates as research data for linguistics and discourse and rhetorical studies" (Link in comments.) #ktp2026

A reminder that the Call for Papers for ESSE 2026 conference in Santiago de Compostela is still open! Send your abstract by 31st January, 2026. Doctoral researchers can also submit their papers to the Doctoral Symposium. More information:

The 13th International Conference on CMC and Social Media Corpora for the Humanities (CMC-Corpora) will be held in Oulu, Finland, on 27–28 August 2026. Abstract submission deadline: 15 April, 2026. More information: cmc2026.org

Our short from video series begins! The first iteration is about our data: what data can be used to compare three vastly different time periods? See our blog or follow us on Instagram: (@languaging_crises)

“In my work with the (Nuremberg Trial) defendants, I was searching for the nature of evil, and I now think I have come close to defining it. A lack of empathy... a genuine incapacity to feel with their fellow men. Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” - Captain G.M. Gilbert, US Army

📢 University of Oulu is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher in languages and conversation analysis (English). Apply by 17 November!

📢 University of Eastern Finland (Joensuu) is looking for a University Lecturer in English language. Apply by 18th November!

I'm so excited about this conference! 🤩 We've already received many many interesting abstracts, examining language in various types of crises. If you are interested in participating, you still have two days to submit your abstract!

You still have about two weeks to submit your abstract to our upcoming conference in Helsinki in March, 2026. Deadline for abstract submission: 31st October, 2025. A warm welcome to discuss crises and language with us!

Call for Papers: Languaging Crises conference in Helsinki in March 2026! Organized by @languaging-crises.bsky.social @minneva.bsky.social , @hannalimatius.bsky.social, @jenniraikkonen.fi

You can also find ESSE on BlueSky! Follow @essenglish.bsky.social to read about upcoming events in Europe!

Call for Papers: NJES special issue on Teaching literature in Nordic L2 English classrooms Expressions of interest by August 31, 2025.

📢 Tampere University is seeking an Assistant professor, Associate professor or Professor in the field of English linguistics. The closing date for applications is August 18th.

We would like to congratulate Prof. Dr. Emerita Terttu Nevalainen for being awarded honorary doctorate by VUB. "[Nevalainen] broke new ground with her quantitative and corpus-based approaches to language change and gave a voice to forgotten linguistic communities in the history of English. "

Welcome to an expert forum on "Language and Identity in Online Interactions" on May 28 (Zoom). P. Faber "The Language of Love Fraud" C. Tebaldi "Semiotic Analysis of Tradwives' Digital Propaganda" @coocho.bsky.social and @sofiaruediger.bsky.social www.isle-linguistics.org/about/news#i...

All members of FINSSE are also members of the Nordic Association of English Studies (NAES). That means FINSSE members are also cordially invited to NAES's General Meeting, taking place on 10 May at Åbo Akademi. More information on the meeting has been sent through our mailing list.

If you're going to the NAAS conference in Turku, the deadline for this prize has been extended to May 10.

REMINDER: M.A. and Ph.D. students can submit their papers for consideration for the Orm Øverland Prize (deadline April 30, 2025). Please find more information about the award on the NAAS website: sites.google.com/view/nordica...

The University of Oulu is looking for a Tenure Track Assistant or Associate Professor or Full Professor in Language use and comprehensive security. Deadline for applications is 6 May 2025.

📢 The Language Centre and the Doctoral School of the University of Helsinki are together inviting applications for  a permanent position of University Lecturer in English from 1 August, 2025. Deadline for applications is 17 April. @helsinki.fi

The Language Centre at Tampere University is seeking a University Instructor of English. This is a permanent position, starting 1 August 2025. Apply by 16 April!

📢 University of Oulu has an open position for a university teacher in English in the Research Unit for Languages and Literature. The position is for a fixed term, August 1, 2025 - December 31, 2026. The deadline for applications is April 17, 2025.

Our Annual General Meeting will be held today at 16:15! All FINSSE members are welcome to join us. The official invitation and the link to the meeting has been sent through our mailing list.

Juho Ruohonen will defend his dissertation entitled "The English Mandative Alternation – a Grammatical Analysis with a Multivariate Corpus Study based upon British English" on Friday, March 14 at 1 pm. Place: Sali 1, Metsätalo, University of Helsinki