<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px;text-align:center"><b style="font-family:arial"><font size="4"><span> Announcement</span>: <font color="#38761d">Linguistics in the Pub in London (<span>LIPIL</span>)</font></font></b><font size="4" face="arial"><b><font color="#0b5394"> </font><font color="#000000">Tuesday</font> 8th December 2015</b></font><b style="font-family:arial"><font size="4"> - </font></b></div></div></div><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><br></p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px">All communities celebrate with ceremonies, be they for major life events such as births, weddings, deaths, or for religious, cultural or social events. For language documentation projects in communities these events can offer unique perspectives on language and culture. There are, however, particular challenges to documenting and participating in these events, both practical and ethical. We discuss how best to navigate these challenges in a variety of contexts. </p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px"><br></p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px">We will also spend some time at the end of the evening discussing topics and directions for LIPIL events in 2016. LIPIL topics to date have focused on language documentation, but can relate to any area of linguistics. All ideas welcome! </p></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">LIPIL</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is an occasional gathering of language activists and linguists in London and serves as an informal forum for the discussion of languages, linguistics and related issues. We meet roughly once a month and discuss a selected theme or issue. </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">LIPIL</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> is coordinated by Lauren Gawne (SOAS, University of London) and is open to everyone who is interested. A s</span><span style="font-size:12.8px">ummary of the discussion is posted on the </span><a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-size:12.8px" target="_blank">Endangered Languages and Cultures blog</a><span style="font-size:12.8px">. You can also Tweet on the night with the #</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><a href="https://twitter.com/search?q=%23LIPIL&src=typd" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span>LIPIL</span></a></span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">hashtag.</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px"><br></span></p><div class="gmail_quote" style="font-size:12.8px"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">Background reading:</div></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Morey, Stephen. 2011. Documentation of traditional songs and ritual texts: Issues for archiving. In Thieberger, Nicholas,  Linda Barwick, Rosey Billington & Jill Vaughan (eds.) Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship, 115-131. Melbourne: Custom Book Centre. [<a href="http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/7950/1/Morey.pdf" target="_blank">download PDF</a></span><a href="http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/7950/1/Morey.pdf" style="color:rgb(17,85,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)" target="_blank"></a><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline!important;float:none;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">]</span></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">  <span> </span></span><br></blockquote></blockquote><blockquote style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Date:             Tuesday 8th December 2015</span></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br><span style="font-family:arial">Time:             6:00 - 8:00 pm</span><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><span style="font-family:arial">Venue:          Upstairs room, <a href="http://www.the-perseverance.moonfruit.com/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><b>The Perseverance</b></a></span><b><br></b></span></p><blockquote style="font-size:12.8px;margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">63 Lambs Conduit Street,<br>Bloomsbury, London, WC1N 3NB<br></div></div></blockquote><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:medium none;padding:0px"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial">ph: <a href="tel:020%207405%208278" value="+442074058278" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">020 7405 8278</a></span></div></div></blockquote></blockquote><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0px;font-size:12.8px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><font face="arial"><br></font><span style="font-family:arial">Food and drinks available at the venue.</span><br></span><span style="font-family:arial"><br></span>Contact Lauren Gawne with any questions: <a href="mailto:lg21@soas.ac.uk" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">lg21@soas.ac.uk</a> <br>You can receive these <span>announcements</span> by signing up to the RNLD mailing list: <a href="http://www.rnld.org/node/5" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.rnld.org/node/5</a> or visiting the <a href="http://www.paradisec.org.au/blog/2015/08/introducing-lipil-linguistics-in-the-pub-in-london/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span>LIPIL</span> Facebook page</a>.</p></blockquote></div>