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<span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">Dear colleagues</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); ">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.</span></p>
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<span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Sylfaen, serif; color: rgb(192, 80, 77); ">Best wishes</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 13pt; ">
<span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Cambria, serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); "> Peter Austin</span></p></div></div></span></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><h1 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Workshop: ‘Endangered
Languages, endangered knowledge & sustainability’</span></h1>

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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Saturday
27 February, 2010 , 9.30am-6.00pm, </span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">College
Buildings, School of Oriental and African Studies, Thornhaugh Street, Russell
Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK.</span></p>

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<h2 style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Keynote speaker:
Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago)</span></h2>

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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">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: </span></p>

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<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Enabling communities to
sustain languages and linguistic ecologies</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Linking language
maintenance with sustainable human development</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Preserving traditional
knowledge<span>  </span>and indigenous paradigms of
teaching, learning, and research</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""><span>4.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Keeping the products of
our research sustainable</span></span></p>

<p style="margin-top:0cm;margin-right:0cm;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-left:36.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""><span>5.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman"">      </span></span></span><span dir="LTR"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Are "sustaining
languages" and "sustaining traditional knowledge" something that
researchers can do, or are they down to speakers alone?<span> </span></span></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Call for papers</span></b></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">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. </span></p>

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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Abstracts should be a maximum of
300 words long (not including any references) and should be sent to: <a href="mailto:elap@soas.ac.uk" target="_blank">elap@soas.ac.uk</a>.</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""></span></p>

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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Deadline:
Friday 15^th January 2010. <span> </span>Notification
of acceptance will be sent by 30^th January.</span></p>

<p><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">Registration details will be
available shortly. <span>The workshop is part
of Endangered Languages week 2010 – more details will be posted on <a href="http://www.hrelp.org/" target="_blank">www.hrelp.org</a>. </span></span></p>

<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype"">It is planned to publish the
proceedings of the workshop via the Endangered Languages Project’s journal <i>Language Documentation and Description</i>.</span><span style="font-family:"Palatino Linotype""></span></p>
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