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Lotta Weckström
Ph.D. Candidate, Center for Applied Language Studies, Jyväskylä University,
Finland
Fall-Spring 2007-08
email: lotta.weckstrom
[@] gmail.com
Education
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Current Ph.D. candidate, Center for Applied Language
Studies, Jyväskylä University, Finland.
Research topic: Finnish labor immigrants’ second generation in Sweden
Manuscript submitted, expected date of defense: June 2008
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2006 Phil. Lic., Center
for Applied Language Studies, Jyväskylä University, Finland.
Thesis
title: The Invisible Opponent: Argumentative
Discourse about Feelings of National Belonging,
Finnishness and Immigration of Second-Generation
Finns in Sweden .
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2003 M. Phil., Department for Speech
Communication and Rhetoric, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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1999 M.A., University of Turku, Finland.
Major: Translation and Interpretation German-Finnish.
Minor: Educational
Sciences, Gender Studies, and Social Psychology.
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1998 B.A., Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Double
Major: Northern European Studies and Linguistics.
Teaching Experience
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2007 –2008 Lecturer, UC Berkeley, Scandinavian
Department, USA.
Courses: Elementary Finnish and Advanced
Finnish. Languages of instruction: English and Finnish.
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2005 – 2006
Lecturer, University College Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Course: Argumentation Analysis. Language of
instruction: English.
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2000 – 2001 Private Tutor,
Finnish. Berlin, Germany. Language of instruction: German.
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1998 – 1999 Teaching Assistant, Turku University
Language Center, Finland.
Courses: Finnish for Foreign
Students, Finnish for Foreign Students and Academic Staff.
Language of instruction: English.
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1997 – 1998 Tutor, Department of
Northern European Studies at Humboldt University, Berlin,
Germany .
Course: Finnish as a Foreign Language. Language
of instruction: German.
Research Experience
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2003 – 2004 Visiting Researcher, Department for
Speech Communication, Argumentation and Rhetoric, University
of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Research area: European minority language policy, argumentation theory.
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2001 – 2002
Researcher, Migration Institute, Turku, Finland.
Research area: post-war Finnish labor migration to Sweden.
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2000 – 2001
Researcher, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
Research area: post-war European labor migration.
Selected Publications
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2006 "Symbiosis of Language and Identity?," in Passages
Westward. H. Snellman and M. Lähteenmäki
(eds.) Studia Fennica Ethnologica 9. Suomen Kirjallisuuden
Seura.
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2006 Bredbyn suomalaisten luokkien koulutyönseisaus
1984 – ruotsinsuomalaisen kansalaisaktivismin voimannäyttö.
K. Mäki and I. Ahvenisto (eds.) Kansalaisvaikuttaminen
ja poliittisuuden muutos.Työväen historian
ja perinteen tutkimuksen seura. ("The
School Strike of the Finnish Classes at Bredby - the
Sweden Finns’ Political Touch Stone," in Activism
and Changes of Political Action. Published by the
Finnish Society for Labor History and Cultural Traditions).
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2005
Unga Sverigefinnarnas tankar om finsk identitet i Sverige. Rätten
till mitt språk - Förstärkt
minoritetsskydd. Betänkande från
utredningen om finska och sydsamiska språken ,
Statens offentliga utredningar, SOU 2005:40, Stockholm.
("Young Sweden Finns’ Thoughts
about Finnish Identity in Sweden," in The Right
to My Language – Amplified
Minority Protection. A Report about Finnish and South-Sami. Published
by the Swedish Ministry of Justice).
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2005 "The Invisible
Opponent. A Study about Feelings of National Belonging,
Finnishness, and Immigration of Second Generation
Finns in Sweden," in Changes, Challenges and Chances.
Conclusions and Perspectives of Baltic Sea Area Studies.
Berliner Wissenschaftsverlag.
Languages
- Finnish: native
- Swedish: native
- English: excellent
- German: excellent
- Dutch: good
- Danish:
basic
- Norwegian:
basic
- Estonian:
basic
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