Workshop on Engagement and Activism in Endangered Languages Research

[Julia Sallabank]

The Endangered Languages Academic Programme at the School of Oriental and
African Studies in London is organising a one-day workshop on Engagement and
Activism in Endangered Languages Research 

Date: Friday 2 May, 2008


Location: Department of Linguistics, Birkbeck (main building), room 405,
Malet Street, London 

 

Programme

9:00am-9:15am             Registration

9:15am-9:30am             Welcome and introduction

9:30am-10:30am            Lise Dobrin, University of Virginia: Endangered
language linguistics: Whose mission?

10:30am-11:30pm          Maurizio Gnerre, Universita Orientale Naples: I
heard it on the radio: advocacy, language and political activism among the
Huave, Mexico

10:30am-11:45am          Break

11:45am-12:45pm          Cecilia Odé, University of Amsterdam: Endangered
Languages an interactive e-learning module on the internet for secondary
schools

12:45pm-1:45pm           Lunch

1:45pm-2:45pm             Peter Sutton, University of Adelaide and South
Australian Museum Linguistics: Land rights and the law

2:45pm-3:45pm             Nicholas Ostler, Foundation for Endangered
Languages: Endangered Language Support: to Do or to Be?

3:45pm-4:00pm             Break

4:00pm-5:00pm             Round table "how to be a good linguist"

 

Booking information:

 

To attend the workshop, you need to submit a booking form by Monday 28 April
2008

Rates (including lunch and coffee): Full £17.50, Student/unwaged £12.50

 

For full details, abstracts, and booking form see
http://www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/engagement/index.html 

 

Best wishes

 

Julia Sallabank

Research Fellow in Language Support and Revitalisation

School of Oriental and African Studies

University of London

 

 

 

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