Symposium on Indigenous Languages

[Serafin Coronel-Molina]

FIRST BIENNIAL SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES OF LATIN
AMERICA (STILLA-2008)
http://www.indiana.edu/~mlcp/stilla/index.php

Indiana University's Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies
and the Minority Languages and Cultures of Latin America Program
arepleased to announce the First Biennial Symposium on Teaching
Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STILLA 2008), to take place
August 14-16 at the Indiana Memorial Union. The first initiative of
this scope in the world, STILLA 2008 brings together instructors,
practitioners, activists, indigenous leaders, scholars and students
whose work focuses on pedagogy and research on the diverse languages
and cultures of indigenous populations in Latin America and the
Caribbean.

The symposium engages participants in a hemispheric dialogue and also
serves as a permanent forum for networking and exchanging ideas,
experiences and research on pedagogical, methodological and practical
issues from cross-disciplinary perspectives. Active listening and
discussion will enable professionals from around the world to interact
with leading experts in the fields of Education, Language Policy and
Planning, Theoretical Linguistics, Latin American Studies, Applied
Linguistics, Folkloristics, Ethnomusicology, Anthropology,
Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Anthropology and Informatics.

Through multiple venues such as keynote addresses, special panels,
teleconferences, interactive workshops, round table discussions,
poster sessions and musical performances, this symposium will
contribute to the teaching, spread, maintenance, and revitalization of
indigenous languages and cultures of Latin America and the Caribbean.

Registration for this event is FREE. Please register online at:
http://www.iub.edu/~mlcp/stilla/registration.php. While we welcome
people to register on any day of the conference, registration by
Friday, August 8, guarantees you a free lunch at the Saturday session.

Please find the exciting schedule of events at the STILLA website, at
http://www.iub.edu/~mlcp/stilla, as well as more information in both
Spanish and English.


Serafin M. Coronel-Molina
Indiana University, Bloomington
Founder and Principal Convenor of STILLA 2008