[Linganth] Árran – Ecology of Indigenous languages

[Ilana Gershon]

*You are warmly welcomed to *

*International Conference organised by Indigenous Studies*

*to celebrate the /Year of Indigenous Languages /*

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*Árran – Ecology of Indigenous languages*

  19.–20.9.2019

University of Helsinki, Lecture hall 1, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33

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Join this conference to discuss with renown indigenous and 
non-indigenous scholars and artists and to learn about Indigenous 
languages in the view of current socio-political, economic, and 
environmental changes. The speakers are coming from several continents 
to Helsinki. The event is a part of official program of the Year of 
Indigenous Languages declared by the UN and Unesco. In Northern Sámi 
language, ‘Árran’ means hearth/fireplace, and we take it as an analogy 
to discuss communally Indigenous languages. Metaphorically, sharing 
stories and narratives, verbal art, ways of speaking, and their 
symbolism fuels the warmth and guarantees the continuation of the Árran.

The key concept of the conference, language ecology, matches 
contemporary ideas of interaction, relationality, and socialization with 
the world. It can also be understood as an engagement and interaction 
with the environment where people use language. Indigenous peoples have 
often demonstrated that for them languages are a mode of experiencing 
and relating to the world (also in a very material sense). At the 
conference we aim to address to what extent indigenous languages do 
things in relation to a given language ecology in which ideologies, 
socio-political, and economic forces as well as non-human agencies play 
a big role.

The panels focus on Indigenous languages and the environment, morphology 
of indigenous arts and crafts, indigenous literature, as well as revival 
of indigenous languages. Keynote speakers of the conference are Prof. 
Gunvor Guttorm (Sámi Uni­versity of Ap­plied Sci­ences, Nor­way) and 
Prof. Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin, USA).

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