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color="#000000"><b>Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty<br>
October 14-16, 2005<br>
<br>
</b>This conference, organized by the linguistics department at
Cornell University, has two central objectives: (1) to highlight the
complex interconnections of language and poverty for a general
audience, and (2) to promote exchange among scholars of language and
of culture and poverty as well as community-based language activists
on work with endangered languages in impoverished communities.
Day one pursues the first objective of outreach and general education;
days two and three are primarily devoted to the second and more
specialized effort. Distinguished scholars and community workers
from around the world will be joined by commentators drawn from a wide
range of departments and programs at Cornell.<br>
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There is no registration fee but those planning to participate are
asked to register at http://ling.cornell.edu/language_and_poverty/ so
that we can plan for refreshments and the conference dinner on
Saturday. Some<i> scholarship support</i> is still available to
defray travel and accommodations costs for those who do not hold
regular academic appointments or have access to travel funding.
Graduate students and people working in their own communities on
language revival and maintenance projects are strongly encouraged to
apply for this support through our website. Preference will be
given to applications received by<i><b> Friday, September 9,
2005</b></i>. There is also limited crash space available; you
may request crash space when you register online for the conference,
or by sending a message to Wayne Harbert at weh2@cornell.edu.
Please do so as soon as possible but preferably no later than<i>
Friday, September 30, 2005</i> if you would like somewhere to put your
sleeping bag. A list of local hotels is available on the
conference website.<br>
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<i><b>Day 1, Friday, October 14, 2005<br>
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</b></i><b>Poverty as a Factor in Language Maintenance and Language
Death<br>
<br>
</b>Keynote speaker: Leanne Hinton<br>
Commentator: Kathryn S. March<br>
<br>
Panel Discussion by Herman Batibo, Matthias Brenzinger, and Ofelia
Zepeda on the effect of access to resources on the maintenance of
minority languages.<br>
Commentator: TBA<br>
<br>
<b>Language and Access to Resources<br>
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</b>Keynote Speaker: John Baugh<br>
Commentator: Stephen L. Morgan<br>
Panel Discussion by Neville Alexander, Ofelia Garcia, and Ajit Mohanty
on the relation between the languages people speak or do not speak and
their economic status. <br>
Commentator: Ravi Kanbur<br>
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<i><b>Day 2, Saturday, October 15, 2005<br>
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</b></i>oWorkshop on<i> Community -Based Language Maintenance
Programs</i>, with Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and
TBA.<br>
Commentator: Audra Simpson<br>
<br>
oWorkshop on the<i> Role of the Linguist in Language Maintenance and
Revitalization: Documentation Training and Materials
Development</i>, with Lenore Grenoble, Norvin Richards and Keren
Rice<br>
Commentator: Amanda Miller<br>
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<b>Minority Languages in Economic and Social Context<br>
<br>
</b>Keynote Speaker: Suzanne Romaine<br>
Commentator: Benedict Anderson<br>
<br>
Panel Discussion with Bruce Mannheim and Peter Whiteley on the
implications of political economy, social structure, and culture for
language in an age of globalization.<br>
Commentator: David Wippman<br>
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<i><b>Day 3, Sunday morning, October 16, 2005 (concluding by
1:00pm)<br>
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</b></i>o Workshop on<i> Technology as a Tool in Language Modelling,
Documentation and Preservation</i>, witth Helen Aristar-Dry and Ian
Maddieson.<br>
Commentator: Mark Turin<br>
<br>
o Workshop on<i> Funding for Language Documentation and Revitalization
Initiatives</i>, with Arienne Dwyer, Barry Supple and Doug Whalen<br>
<br>
The conference is funded by grants from the National Science
Foundation and Cornell University's Poverty, Inequality and
Development Initiative.<br>
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The conference organizers,<br>
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Wayne Harbert<x-tab>
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Sally McConnell-Ginet<x-tab>
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Amanda Miller<x-tab>
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John Whitman<x-tab>
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