Kari Sajavaara memorial lecture

The annual Kari Sajavaara memorial lecture is organized on Friday the 17th of January 2025 at 12 pm in the University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki.

Kari Sajavaara memorial lecture is organized on Friday the 17th of January 2025 at 12 pm in the University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki (room S212). The lecture will be given by Associate professor Kara D. Brown (University of South Carolina). The title of the lecture is 'The right teacher in the right place: Insights from three Estonian cases on teacher interest and motivation to participate in new language programs'. After the lecture, two awards bearing the name of Kari Sajavaara will be given out: one for a scientifically meritorious doctoral thesis and the other for socially significant work done in the field. The Finnish Network for Language Education Policies (Kieliverkosto) organises Kari Sajavaara memorial lecture annually. The lecture is dedicated to the memory of Professor Kari Sajavaara (1938‒2006) who was a versatile and active researcher and actor in the field of applied language studies and language education policies. He was a professor and director at the Centre for Applied Language Studies, from where he retired in 2003. Sajavaara was also an active international networker and the co-founder of the European Language Council. Kari Sajavaara was Vice-Rector of the University of Jyväskylä in 1982‒1991 and Dean of the Faculty of Humanities in 1996‒2002. Coffee will be served after the lecture. Welcome!