[lg policy] Two upcoming ELA events at the GC & the Bowery Poetry Club

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded  <linguistics at gc.cuny.edu>
Date: Mon, Apr 23, 2012 at 1:48 PM

Two upcoming ELA events at the GC & the Bowery Poetry Club

Dear Friends,


Please join us this week for two language events of the highest caliber...

EVENT #1:


Qu'est-ce qui passe?  "Le breton , une langue moderne et vivante. Ar
brezhoneg, ur yezh a-vremañ ha bev-birvidik"

Une Soirée avec Hervé Lossec, auteur du livre Les Bretonnismes
WHAT?   "Breton, a living modern language" (discussion in Breton,
French and English),

              An Evening with Hervé Lossec, author of "Les Bretonnismes"

Quand ca?  Mercredi, le 25 avril, 19-21h
WHEN?       Wednesday, April 25th, 7-9pm

Ou ca?        Dans la chambre C197, à CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., NYC
WHERE?     Room C197, CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., NYC

Hervé Lossec auteur de livre, Les bretonnismes, vient a New York!
Avec bientôt 100 000 exemplaires vendu il entrera dans l'histoire pour
un ouvrage traitant de la Bretagne, surtout la langue.  Le succès de
l'ouvrage montre surtout l'intérêt retrouvé de la population pour sa
langue.  Apres la séance,  l'auteur signera des livres.



EVENT #2:



Book launch with Dan Everett for

Language: The Cultural Tool



Sunday, April 29, 2012

6:00pm until 8:00pm

Bowery Poetry Club - 308 Bowery bet. Bleecker and Houston



Bowery Arts + Science and Endangered Language Alliance invite you meet
the author and celebrate the publication of a new book of LANGUAGE:
THE CULTURAL TOOL (Pantheon) and an advanced screening of his new
film:

THE GRAMMAR OF HAPPINESS



Read more about Daniel Everett in The New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/22/books/a-new-book-and-film-about-rare-amazonian-language.html?_r=1&emc=eta1



Best,



The Endangered Language Alliance


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