Cornell Conference

[Andre Cramblit]

Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty
  October 14-16, 2005

This conference, organized by the linguistics department at Cornell 
University, has two central objectives: (1) to highlight the complex 
interconnections of language and poverty for a general audience, and 
(2) to promote exchange among scholars of language and of culture and 
poverty as well as community-based language activists on work with 
endangered languages in impoverished communities.  Day one pursues the 
first objective of outreach and general education; days two and three 
are primarily devoted to the second and more specialized effort.  
Distinguished scholars and community workers from around the world will 
be joined by commentators drawn from a wide range of departments and 
programs at Cornell.

  There is no registration fee but those planning to participate are 
asked to register at http://ling.cornell.edu/language_and_poverty/ so 
that we can plan for refreshments and the conference dinner on 
Saturday.  Some scholarship support is still available to defray travel 
and accommodations costs for those who do not hold regular academic 
appointments or have access to travel funding.  Graduate students and 
people working in their own communities on language revival and 
maintenance projects are strongly encouraged to apply for this support 
through our website.  Preference will be given to applications received 
by Friday, September 9, 2005.  There is also limited crash space 
available; you may request crash space when you register online for the 
conference, or by sending a message to Wayne Harbert at 
weh2 at cornell.edu.  Please do so as soon as possible but preferably no 
later than Friday, September 30, 2005 if you would like somewhere to 
put your sleeping bag.  A list of local hotels is available on the 
conference website.

Day 1, Friday, October 14, 2005

Poverty as a Factor in Language Maintenance and Language Death

Keynote speaker:  Leanne Hinton
  Commentator:  Kathryn S. March

  Panel Discussion by Herman Batibo, Matthias Brenzinger, and Ofelia  
Zepeda on the effect of access to resources on the maintenance of 
minority languages.
  Commentator: TBA

Language and Access to Resources

Keynote Speaker:  John Baugh
  Commentator: Stephen L. Morgan
  Panel Discussion by Neville Alexander, Ofelia Garcia, and Ajit Mohanty 
on the relation between the languages people speak or do not speak and 
their economic status. 
  Commentator:  Ravi Kanbur

Day 2, Saturday, October 15, 2005

oWorkshop on Community -Based Language Maintenance Programs, with Nora 
Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, and TBA.
  Commentator: Audra Simpson

  oWorkshop on the Role of the Linguist in Language Maintenance and 
Revitalization:  Documentation Training and Materials Development, with 
Lenore Grenoble, Norvin Richards and Keren Rice
  Commentator: Amanda Miller

Minority Languages in Economic and Social Context

Keynote Speaker:  Suzanne Romaine
  Commentator: Benedict Anderson

  Panel Discussion with Bruce Mannheim and Peter Whiteley on the 
implications of political economy, social structure, and culture for 
language in an age of globalization.
  Commentator: David Wippman

Day 3, Sunday morning, October 16, 2005 (concluding by 1:00pm)

o Workshop on Technology as a Tool in Language Modelling, Documentation 
and Preservation, witth Helen Aristar-Dry and Ian Maddieson.
  Commentator: Mark Turin

  o Workshop on Funding for Language Documentation and Revitalization 
Initiatives, with Arienne Dwyer, Barry Supple and Doug Whalen

  The conference is funded by grants from the National Science 
Foundation and Cornell University's Poverty, Inequality and Development 
Initiative.

  The conference organizers,

  Wayne Harbert                        weh2 at cornell.edu
  Sally McConnell-Ginet           smg9 at cornell.edu
  Amanda Miller                   am332 at cornell.edu
  John Whitman                   jbw2 at cornell.edu
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