<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Plants, Animals, Words: a multidisciplinary workshop</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">19-21 September 2013</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, SOAS, University of London</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Website: </span><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/plants-animals-words/19sep2013-plants-animals-words-a-multidisciplinary-workshop.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/plants-animals-words/<span class=""><span class="">19sep2013</span></span>-plants-animals-words-a-multidisciplinary-workshop.html</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">With the aim of promoting </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">interdisciplinary research, the Linguistics Department at SOAS, University of London is hosting a three-day workshop designed to encourage collaboration between researchers and young academics interested in the areas of linguistics, ethnobotany and ethnozoology.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This event is being organized in collaboration with researchers from the University of Kent and the University of Oxford.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Linguists involved in the documentation of lesser-known languages recognize that much of the data they collect is devoted to the description of the speakers’ knowledge of the natural world. Ethnobiologists, who are concerned with the relationships a community has with its plants and animals, recognize that </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">language is key to a deeper understanding of traditional knowledge.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Key speakers will include Dr. Rajindra K. Puri, Senior Lecturer in Environmental Anthropology at the </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">University of Kent; Dr. Andrew G. Gosler, University Research Lecturer in Ornithology and Conservation at the University of Oxford; Dr. Thomas Thornton, Director of MSc Environmental Change & Management, University of Oxford; Bob Gosford, Darwin-based writer, lawyer and ethnobiologist; Dr. </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Serge Sagna, Research Fellow at the University of Surrey; and Dr. Kakia Chatsiou, Digital Content Curator at the Endangered Languages Archive.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">This event offers an excellent opportunity for participants to gain hands-on experience in ethical data gathering techniques, share cross-disciplinary perspectives and theories, and set up a basis for future collaborative research. Although this event is open to researchers from all fields, spaces are limited. Participants are therefore asked to register with an expression of interest. Registration will be open between the </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">19th July and 18th August</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">If you are interested in participating in this event, please visit the website (</span><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/plants-animals-words/19sep2013-plants-animals-words-a-multidisciplinary-workshop.html" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.soas.ac.uk/linguistics/events/plants-animals-words/<span class=""><span class="">19sep2013</span></span>-plants-animals-words-a-multidisciplinary-workshop.html</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">) and follow the registration link. For more information email: </span><a href="mailto:ethnobiology@soas.ac.uk" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ethnobiology@soas.ac.uk</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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