Summer School Minde (Portugal): Community-driven Language Documentation (CDLD 2014)

[Vera Ferreira]

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*CIDLeS Summer School 2014: COMMUNITY-DRIVEN LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION 
(CDLD 2014)

Date & Venue: *August 18th - 23rd, 2014 | Minde (Portugal)

*Website: 
*http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/

*Deadline for application: *May 31st, 2014

*About the Summer School
*The field of language documentation has matured over the last 15 years. 
With several funding initiatives running out, community-driven language 
documentation ensures sustainable documentation.

This summer school is designed to encourage community-driven 
interdisciplinary language documentation. It will bring together 
speakers of endangered languages, local language workers, students and 
researchers of linguistics and related fields. The summer school is 
intended to be a space for engagement and exchange between community 
members, language workers and students and provide an environment for 
learning about each other's interests and requirements.

The curriculum is developed to be in accordance with the needs and 
interests of the speech communities. It aims at empowering the speech 
communities to participate in the definition and implementation of 
research projects and sensitise students of linguistic for the needs of 
the communities. Thus, the major goal of this summer school is to 
introduce the participants into the theory and methods of language 
documentation. The goal is to acquire the knowledge and competence to 
conduct one's own documentation projects with regard to endangered language.

This summer school is part of a larger event. The week before CDLD 2014 
there will be another one-week summer school on Coding for Language 
Communities 
(http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-coding-for-language-communities-2014/).

*Topics of lectures and courses*
Audio and video recording & processing
Annotations (transcription, translation, GRAID)
Lexicography
Ethnobotany
Ethnomusicology
Language maintenance and revitalization

CDLD 2014 will focus on the theory, methods and techniques of language 
documentation and revitalization and on their interdisciplinary 
character. Each day will consist of two learning sessions in the 
morning: one general lecture and a course lecture (seminar-like unit) 
that will introduce the participants to the course tutorials (practice 
unit) which will take place in the afternoon.

*Invited lecturers*
Ben Levine (Speaking Place, USA)
Dorothee Beermann (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 
Trondheim)
Julia Schulz (Speaking Place, USA)
Ulrike Mosel (University of Kiel)
/other lecturers to be announced/

*Application*
Participants have to apply by filling out the application form providing 
information on their background and interest in the area of language 
documentation and revitalization.
Deadline for application is *May 31st, 2014*.  The number of 
participants is limited to 30. Admission will be based on the track 
record and a motivational statement that are part of the application form.
Apply here: 
http://www.cidles.eu/summer-school-community-driven-language-documentation-2014/apply/

*Costs*
The summer school costs 250 Euros for the whole week. The fee includes 
summer school materials, all meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner) and a 
place to sleep.

We plan to provide scholarships for students to participate in the 
summer school. If possible, the scholarship will cover the fee of 250 
Euros and travel costs up to 1.000 Euros. Describe in the application 
form why you need a scholarship.

*Organizing team*
Vera Ferreira
Peter Bouda
Rita Pedro
Felix Rau
Ingrid Scholz

For more information, please contact cdld2014 at cidles.eu.

-- 
Vera Ferreira
Centro Interdisciplinar de Documentação Linguística e Social / Interdisciplinary Centre for Social and Language Documentation
Rua do Remexido, Loja 15
2395-174 Minde
Portugal

Tel.: +351249849123
Email: vferreira at cidles.eu
Web: http://www.cidles.eu

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