[etnolinguistica] Endangered Language Research in The Netherlands

[Leo Wetzels]

Endangered Languages Research in the Netherlands

The Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) has created
an Endangered Languages Programme, which is sponsoring three endangered
language projects: two in Africa, and one in South-America. On August
26, 2004, a one-day workshop will be organized in the Cultural Center of
the Vrije Universiteit (Amsterdam, The Netherlands). During this
workshop these three projects will be presented and the future of the
programme will be discussed. The workshop will also offer an opportunity
for an exchange of ideas about the objectives and the importance of
endangered language research, and about more practical problems that
researchers encounter while doing this type of research. A number of
national and international specialists will be invited to present their
ideas about a number of issues relevant to these themes. More
information regarding this event will be provided in the spring of 2004.
In case you would like to have more information now, please contact the
secretary of the programme, Frank Zuijdam (e-mail zuijdam at nwo.nl or
telephone 31-70-3440871).
Preceding and following the one-day NWO workshop there will be two
conferences: one on African linguistics, and one on Amazonian
linguistics and anthropology, as presented below:

Date Place Title
August 23-25, 2004 University of Leiden, The Netherlands 34th COLLOQUIUM
ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
August 26, 2004 Cultureel Centrum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands NWO WORKSHOP ENDANGERED LANGUAGE PROGRAMME
August 27-28, 2004 Cultureel Centrum Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The
Netherlands LANGUAGES AND CULTURES IN THE ANDEAN-AMAZONIAN BORDER AREA

The 34th COLLOQUIUM ON AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
will be held in Leiden on August 23 - 24 - 25, 2004
Participants are requested to register on Sunday, August 22nd, in the
afternoon. The meetings will be held from Monday morning until Wednesday
afternoon.
Papers and research reports on all aspects of African languages and
linguistics are welcome. We shall allow 30 minutes for the presentation
of each paper, including (10 minutes of) discussion.
We suggest you book your own accommodation. You can find suitable
addresses at the following web site:
http://www.let.leidenuniv.nl/ulcl/events/confs/info.html
Please let us know if you need any help.
Please register before June 1st, 2004. We just need your title; we don’t
need an abstract. Make sure that the language of your title agrees with
the language of the presentation (English or French).
We shall confirm your registration and provide more detailed information
in our second circular, which we shall send to you early in July.
In case you need an official letter of acceptance for the conference,
just ask us. If you need a visa to enter the Netherlands, please start
procedures well ahead of time.
Unfortunately it is impossible for us to provide financial assistance.
This invitation is sent to participants of recent CALL's and to some
other addresses. Please share this information with interested
colleagues and students at your institution.
Hoping to hear from you and to see you at our Colloquium.
For information please contact the organizer of the colloquium Maarten Mous
at call at let.leidenuniv.nl
The CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGES AND CULTURES OF THE ANDEAN/AMAZONIAN BORDER
AREA will be held at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, on August 27 and
28, 2004.
Papers are invited for 20-minute talks (plus 10 minutes for discussion)
on the languages and cultures of the border area between Colombia, Peru,
and Bolivia, on the one side, and Brazil (states of Amazonas, Acre,
Rondônia, and Mato Grosso) on the other. Given the brief duration of the
conference, there will be space for some 20 presentations altogether.
Abstracts should be no more than two pages in length (including examples
and references), in 12-point type. All margins should be at least one
inch wide (or 2.5 cm).
Authors are asked to submit their abstracts as e-mail attachments (pdf
or rtf formats are preferred, MS Word is also acceptable) with a hard
copy to follow within 1 week. No faxes will be accepted. In the email
message, please also include the title of the paper, name of the
author(s), affiliation(s), address, phone number, and e-mail address.
Submissions are limited to a maximum of one per author. Joint abstracts
will be treated as individual submissions. Since the organizers are
considering publishing (a selection of ) the papers presented at the
conference, preference will be given to presentations not yet given at
other conferences. Authors are asked to indicate prior or planned
presentations of their papers.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: Friday, April 16th, 2004
Send abstracts to: WLM.Wetzels at let.vu.nl

Hard copy abstracts to:
Amazonian Linguistics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
W. Leo Wetzels, Hoofdgebouw 11A-23
De Boelelaan 1105
1081HV Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The provisional list of key-note speakers includes: Aryon Rodrigues
(Comparative South American Linguistics, Brasília, Brazil), Jon
Landaburu (Colombian languages CELIA, Paris, France), Marcelo Fiorini
(Nambikwara Anthropology, Hofstra University, USA), Willem Adelaar
(Comparative Latin-American Linguistics, Leiden University, The
Netherlands).
More and regular information on the conference will be provided from the
beginning of 2004 onwards. In the meantime, do not hesitate to contact
any of the members of the conference committee:

Gabriel Antunes g.antunes at let.vu.nl
Cristina Borella c.borella at let.vu.nl
Januacele da Costa jf.da.costa at let.vu.nl
Leo Wetzels WLM.Wetzels at let.vu.nl






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