Three Visiting Philosophers at the Annual CEES Conference

Three visiting philosophers will give a talk at the conference "Variation in language, literature, folklore, and music" taking place on December 7th-8th.

Variation is a universal phenomenon permeating language, culture, and the entire worldview, and as such connects the different domains explored by the Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies. We invite you to discuss the issues related to specific and common in variation in language, literature, folklore, and music, and the confluences and connections between different variations. The conference also features round-table discussions on the methods for studying variation and problems concerned with data (large and small databases, so-called bad data). We are open for suggestions for workshops, especially those dealing with interdisciplinary topics.

Conference schedule includes a lot of people from different fields. But there will be three visiting philosophers
December 7th at 10 Cathal O'Madagain (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) will give a plenary talk.
December 7th at 15 Cressida Gaukroger (University of Oxford), Cathal O'Madagain (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) and Joey Pollock (University of Edinburgh) will each give a talk in a parallel session.

Conference takes place in Estonian Literary Museum (Vanemuise 42)

Organisers: PUT 475 “Integrated model of morphosyntactic variation in written Estonian: A pilot study”, and the working group of the CEES on corpus-based linguistic, literary, and folklore studies.
The conference is supported by the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (Centre of Excellence in Estonian Studies), and research projects PUT 475 and IUT 22-5 of the Estonian Research Council.