Endangered languages, endangered knowledge and sustainability

[Peter Austin]

Dear colleagues



With apologies for cross-postings and also festive cheer, please find below
a call for papers for a one-day conference on endangered languages in
February 2010.



Best wishes

 Peter Austin


Workshop: ‘Endangered Languages, endangered knowledge & sustainability’



Saturday 27 February, 2010 , 9.30am-6.00pm,

College Buildings, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh
Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK.
  Keynote speaker: Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)



The goal of the workshop is to investigate sustainable approaches to
endangered languages themselves, and our research (at both theoretical and
practical levels). Issues might include:



1.      Enabling communities to sustain languages and linguistic ecologies

2.      Linking language maintenance with sustainable human development

3.      Preserving traditional knowledge  and indigenous paradigms of
teaching, learning, and research

4.      Keeping the products of our research sustainable

5.      Are "sustaining languages" and "sustaining traditional knowledge"
something that researchers can do, or are they down to speakers alone?

* *

*Call for papers*

Proposals are invited for papers which present cutting-edge research on the
themes and topics outlined above. Each speaker will have 20 minutes plus 10
minutes for discussion, followed by further plenary discussion.



Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words long (not including any
references) and should be sent to: elap at soas.ac.uk.



Deadline: Friday 15th January 2010.  Notification of acceptance will be sent
by 30th January.

Registration details will be available shortly. The workshop is part of
Endangered Languages week 2010 – more details will be posted on
www.hrelp.org.

It is planned to publish the proceedings of the workshop via the Endangered
Languages Project’s journal *Language Documentation and Description*.
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