VIRSU symposia, seminars and workshops have been organized
- in Joensuu, February 27–28, 1998
- in Oulu, March 5–6, 1999
- in Tallinn, February 25–26, 2000
- in Helsinki, March 10, 2001
- in Joensuu, in connection with the Finnish Linguistics Conference, May 15–16, 2003
- in Jyväskylä, April 1, 2005
- in Joensuu, in connection with the Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, August 11, 2006
- at the research station of the University of Turku on the island of Seili, 2008
- at the Mekrijärvi research station, October 1–2, 2009
- at the 11th Congressus Internationalis Finno-Ugristarum in Piliscsaba, Hungary, August 2010
- in connection with the AFinLA conference in Turku 2013
- at the AFinLA Autumn Symposium in Jyväskylä 2014
- at the 12th CIFU in Oulu, August 2015