Fwd: Trace Foundation language event, New York City, 21-22 Feb 2009

[Damien Hall]

Forwarded from the Endangered Language Fund's 'friends' e-mail list.

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From: Endangered Language Fund <elf at haskins.yale.edu>
Subject: Trace Foundation language event, New York City, 21-22 Feb 2009
Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 13:02:24 -0500
To: elf at endangeredlanguagefund.org

   Dear friends of ELF,
   Those of you in the New York area may be interested in an event  
sponsored by the Trace Foundation, held on International Mother  
Language Day:

http://www.trace.org/pressroom_lecture_series_1a.html

The workshop is entitled "Minority Language in Today's Global  
Society: Perspectives in Mother Tongue Education" and has  
presentations by Shawo Dondrup (Trace Foundation); François Grin  
(University of Geneva); Nangsal Tenzin Norbu (Columbia University);  
Tove Skutnabb-Kangas, (University of Roskilde and Åbo Akademi  
University); and Minglang Zhou (Dickinson College).

If you plan to go, they request that you register.

   Best, Doug Whalen DhW


Douglas H. Whalen, President
Endangered Language Fund
300 George St., Suite 900
New Haven, CT  06511
USA
+1-203-865-6163, ext. 265 (or 234 for whalen)
elf at endangeredlanguagefund.org

-- 
Damien Hall

University of York
Department of Language and Linguistic Science
Heslington
York YO10 5DD
UK

Tel. (office) 01904 432665
     (mobile) 0771 853 5634
Fax  01904 432673
http://www.york.ac.uk/res/aiseb/