Breath of Life 2013

[Baldwin, Daryl]

looks good Lisa I will start distributing to our contacts....the university
here has changed our email so can you update your address book to
baldwidw at miamioh.edu

Daryl


On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Conathan, Lisa <lisa.conathan at yale.edu>wrote:

> CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
>
> PARTICIPATE IN THE BREATH OF LIFE ARCHIVAL INSTITUTE FOR INDIGENOUS
> LANGUAGES (BoL)
>
> Washington, DC, June 09-21, 2013
>
> >>>Application Deadline: March 1, 2013<<<
>
> We invite Native Americans and First Nations people who are learning and
> revitalizing their languages, and graduate students, faculty and other
> scholars who specialize in Linguistics (preferably in Native American or
> First Nations languages) to apply to participate in the Breath of Life
> Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages (BoL).
>
> BoL is designed to promote active collaboration among people with a wide
> range of perspectives about language and culture, including technical
> linguistic knowledge and cultural expertise. Participants will be grouped
> into research teams, based on language, made up of linguists and Native
> community language researchers. Team members will actively work together,
> mentor one another, and share their expertise throughout the program and
> beyond.
>
> The research teams will explore archives and museum collections at the
> Library of Congress and the Smithsonian Institution, with morning workshops
> on linguistics, language teaching and learning, archival research and
> language revitalization held at the National Museum of the American Indian.
> The two weeks of study will culminate in a research project and
> presentation that uses archival or museum resources for linguistic research
> or language teaching.
>
> Beyond a general commitment to language learning from archival sources,
> participants must be willing and able to attend and actively participate in
> the entire Institute. Aside from truly unforeseen circumstances, it will
> not be possible to arrive late, leave early, or to skip the required
> workshops and events (though some workshops will be optional).
>
> Participants will stay in the dorms at George Washington University, where
> they can network and study together in the evenings. BoL will pay for
> participants' rooms, and partially subsidize food and travel.
>
> BoL will accept 60 participants. This is a great opportunity to find and
> use archival materials to reclaim, learn, and teach indigenous languages,
> in the company of other like-minded people.
>
> To find out more and to fill out an application please visit:
> http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL_2013_home.php
>
> The 2013 Breath of Life Institute is funded by the Documenting Endangered
> Languages Program of the National Science Foundation. Partners include the
> National Museum of Natural History, The National Museum of the American
> Indian, the Library of Congress, The Endangered Language Fund and Yale
> University.
>



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