<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear URA-LIST Colleagues,<div><br></div><div>forwarded (below, with usual apologies...), a very interesting conference call.</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>JL<br><div>
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<div><br><div>Välitetty viesti alkaa:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Lähettäjä: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Julia Sallabank <<a href="mailto:js72@SOAS.AC.UK">js72@SOAS.AC.UK</a>><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Päiväys: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">7. kesäkuuta 2011 16.08.41 UTC+2.00<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Vastaanottaja: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><a href="mailto:ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">ENDANGERED-LANGUAGES-L@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Aihe: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Lähetä edelleen: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Vastaus: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Julia Sallabank <<a href="mailto:js72@SOAS.AC.UK">js72@SOAS.AC.UK</a>><br></span></div><br>Dear colleagues<br><br>With apologies for cross-posting, please can you circulate this to interested colleagues.<br><br>Many thanks<br>Julia<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Dr. M.C. Jones</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mcj11@cam.ac.uk">mcj11@cam.ac.uk</a>></span><br>
Date: 25 May 2011 18:45<br>Subject: Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment<br><br><div style="word-wrap: break-word;">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>I am delighted to give you advance notice that the Second Cambridge Conference on Language Endangerment will take place next year at CRASSH and Peterhouse on Friday 6th July 2012. </div>
<div><br></div><div>The theme of next year's conference will be:</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">Language Endangerment:
Methodologies and New Challenges </span></div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;"></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial;">According to the UNESCO Atlas of Endangered Languages, 43%
of the world’s 6,000 languages are currently under threat of extinction.
Unsurprisingly, therefore, linguists have been seeking to analyse and document
these languages while they are still spoken. However, it is striking that, in
many cases, researchers have been slow to exploit fully the enhanced resources
offered by the development of new technologies for areas ranging from visual
and sound archiving to digitisation of textual resources to electronic mapping:
resources which, if utilised to their full capacity can also be used as teaching
resources in language revitalisation. However, these new technologies also
bring with them a host of new challenges: one cannot simply graft existing
practices onto new instruments. Rather, there is a need for traditional
methods and ideas to evolve along with the technology. Moreover, lack of
interchange with other teams also often leads researchers to continually
reinvent the wheel. This conference invites researchers and language-documentation
practitioners from around the world to come together to share their methodologies
and to learn from each other.<u></u><u></u></span></p>
<div><br></div><div>It would be terrific to see you there. I very much hope you can come! </div><div><br></div><div>More details and a formal Call For Papers will be posted via email lists and on the CRASSH website in due course. The purpose of the present email is simply to give you plenty of advance notice so that those of you who may be interested in attending can put the date in your diaries.</div>
<div><br></div><div>All best wishes,</div><div>Mari</div><div><br></div><div>
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