[Sealang-l] Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics 2017

Pavadee Saisuwan Pavadee.S at chula.ac.th
Tue Apr 25 07:09:31 UTC 2017


Dear colleagues,

We are happy to inform you that the registration for Chulalongkorn Summer School of Southeast Asian Linguistics or ChulaSEALing2017 is now open until 30 April 2017. The summer school will be held from 5 - 16 June 2017 at Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.

The summer school will provide participants with a general overlook on Southeast Asia as a linguistic area, and theoretical discussion and methodological training in Southeast Asian linguistics, as well as practical knowledge on language situations and language policy in the ASEAN region.

Participants will choose to attend three of the nine courses taught by prominent linguists. Here are the course listings:

- David Bradley (La Trobe University)
   Language Policy and the Sociolinguistics of Language Endangerment in Southeast Asia
- David Peterson (Dartmouth College)
   Language Documentation in the Context of Southeast Asia
- James A. Matisoff (University of California, Berkeley)
   The Tibeto-Burman Language Family in Areal Southeast Asian Perspective
- James N. Stanford (Dartmouth College)
   Variation in Indigenous Southeast Asian Languages
- John Whitman (Cornell University)
   Microparametric Variation and Historical Change in Southeast Asian Languages
- Marc Brunelle (University of Ottawa) and James Kirby (University of Edinburgh)
   The Synchrony and Diachrony of Tonation in Southeast Asia
- Nick Enfield (University of Sydney)
  Mainland Southeast Asian Languages in Global Perspective
- Pittayawat Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn University) and Weera Ostapirat (Mahidol University)
   Comparative Kra-Dai
- Umberto Ansaldo (University of Hong Kong)
  Language Contact and Contact Languages in SEA
- Walter Bisang (University of Mainz)
  Grammaticalization in East and Mainland Southeast Asian Languages

The summer school will be accompanied by the lecture series "Past, Present, and Future of Southeast Asian Linguistics" which will take place during 5 - 16 June in the evening. It will comprise 5 special public lectures on pertinent issues in Southeast Asian linguistics by world-class scholars. For more information, please visit http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/chulasealing2017/lectures/.

Furthermore, Chulalongkorn International Student Symposium on Southeast Asian Linguistics will be held on 8 - 9 June 2017 in cooperation with Cornell University, University of Sydney, and Nanyang Technological University. This event will serve as a forum for young scholars from ASEAN countries and beyond to exchange ideas and perspectives as well as to form networks of future experts on the Southeast Asian linguistic area. Participation is free of charge. For more information, please visit http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/chulasealing2017/symposium/.

Registration for the summer school is now open. Registration fee covers course materials, lunches, breaks, closing dinner and insurance. You can fill out the online application form at www.arts.chula.ac.th/chulasealing2017/registration<http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/chulasealing2017/registration>. The deadline for registration is 30 April  2017.

For more information about the summer school, please visit http://www.arts.chula.ac.th/chulasealing2017/. If you have any other queries, you may find the FAQs section on our website helpful. You can also contact us at linguistics.artschula at gmail.com<mailto:linguistics.artschula at gmail.com>.

We look forward to welcoming you to ChulaSeaLing2017 in Bangkok, Thailand.

Best regards,
Pittayawat Pittayaporn
Chair of ChulaSEALing2017 organizing committee


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Pavadee Saisuwan, PhD
Department of Linguistics
Faculty of Arts
Chulalongkorn University
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