21.800, Confs: Language Documentation/UK

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Date: 15-Feb-2010
From: Julia Sallabank < js72 at soas.ac.uk >
Subject: Endangered Languages Week, SOAS
 

	
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Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 10:47:39
From: Julia Sallabank [js72 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: Endangered Languages Week, SOAS

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Endangered Languages Week, SOAS 

Date: 22-Feb-2010 - 27-Feb-2010 
Location: London, United Kingdom 
Contact: Alison Kelly 
Contact Email: elap at soas.ac.uk 
Meeting URL: http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2010 

Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation 

Meeting Description: 

Endangered Languages Week 2010 presents a variety of talks, displays, discussions, films, lectures and workshops. This year's theme is sustainability: can the world's languages be sustained, and if so, which ones, and how? And can the now-vigorous activities in documenting and supporting languages continue long enough to make a difference? 

Monday 22 February 
Open Day: visit the Brunei Gallery to see a variety of displays, demonstrations, software, posters, and books from organisations involved in endangered languages activities 
 
Monday 22, 6-7 pm 
Annual Public Lecture, Khalili Lecture Theatre - Lenore 
Grenoble Switch or Shift: Code-Mixing, Contact-Induced Change and Attrition 
 
Tuesday 23 - Friday 26 
Meet an Endangered Language - a series of short presentations on several endangered languages, where you can learn about where they are spoken, why they are threatened, and experience their culture - as well as learn some basic words and phrases 
 
Tuesday 23 - Friday 26 
Meet a fieldworker- short informal sessions where you can hear about the practical and human issues in doing fieldwork in locations such as such as Algeria, Iran, Tanzania, and the Solomon Islands. 

Wednesday 24
Films: a morning of international films on endangered languages 

Saturday 27th
Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge & Sustainability: a full day workshop (for programme and registration form see www.hrelp.org/events/workshops/sustainability). 

Everyone is welcome and all the events are free of charge except for the workshop.

Venue: School of Oriental and African Studies, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK





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