30.3084, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling, Typology/Thailand

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3084. Fri Aug 09 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3084, Calls: Anthro Ling, Lang Doc, Socioling, Typology/Thailand

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Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 21:45:15
From: Vera Ferreira [vf4 at soas.ac.uk]
Subject: International Conference on Language Diversity and Preservation of Cultural Heritage

Full Title: International Conference on Language Diversity and Preservation of Cultural Heritage 
Short Title: LCP 2019 

Date: 17-Dec-2019 - 19-Dec-2019
Location: Mahidol University, Thailand 
Contact Person: Siripen Ungsitipoonporn
Meeting Email: lcprilcaconf2019 at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.rilcaconf.lc.mahidol.ac.th/LCP2019/Announcement.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology 

Call Deadline: 31-Aug-2019 

Meeting Description:

About the Conference:

One of the effects of climate change and urbanization are the marginalization
of minority communities which are losing their ways of life and access to
resources in the local and economic environment. Via systemic pressures,
minority community members are forced to relocate to ensure social and
economic mobility. This leads to shifting to majority languages, i.e. the
break in intergenerational knowledge transmission; the older generations are
disenfranchised, and the communities are disrupted. Centuries of knowledge
encoded in language is being lost before it has been recorded. All over the
world, communities are struggling with these processes, trying to maintain
their languages and cultural knowledge. In this sense, UNESCO has declared
2019 the ''International Year of Indigenous Languages'' with the objective of
raising awareness to the urgent need to preserve, revitalize, and promote
indigenous languages around the world. Thailand is representative of the
current global situation with approximately 70 living languages, 15 of which
are highly endangered.

The conference is hosted by the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures
of Asia, at Mahidol University, and is organized in collaboration with the
Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at SOAS, University of London.

LCP 2019 will be organized in the framework of the Newton-funded Institutional
Links project ''THE ETHNIC GROUP DIGITAL ARCHIVE: PROMOTING THE PROTECTION AND
PRESERVATION OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE DIVERSITY IN THAILAND''. The project's
main goal is the implementation of a digital infrastructure in Thailand using
Mukurtu CMS, which is a Drupal-based platform for data management, community
archiving and data dissemination. In general terms, the project aims at
developing measures to preserve cultural heritage and linguistic diversity by
local scholars and community themselves, building local capacity and
strengthening societal impact.

The conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum in which scholars
working on the linguistic diversity in Thailand can exchange their knowledge
and research in language documentation and language maintenance. It will be
also an important place for the presentation and promotion of the newly
created digital archive, fostering the discussion around archiving issues and
the importance of archiving for the preservation of language diversity.
Moreover, LCP 2019 represents an important step towards the development of
regional, national, and international networks among institutions focused on
the preservation of cultural heritage in Thailand. 

Invited Speakers:

Gary Holton (University of Hawai'i at Mānoa)
Mandana Seyfeddinipur (SOAS University of London)
Organising Committee
Siripen Ungsitipoonporn (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Buachut Watyam (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Kumaree Laparporn (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Nattamon Rojanakul (Mahidol University, Thailand)
Vera Ferreira (SOAS University of London, UK)

Call for Papers:

Abstracts are invited for papers on the following subtopics:

- Language documentation and cultural maintenance and preservation with a
special focus on the situation in Thailand
- Digital archiving for minority languages and cultural heritage
- Collaboration with ethnic groups to promote language and culture diversity
in the world

If you are interested in presenting a paper, please submit an abstract in
English (max. 500 words, including references) by August 31, 2019. Abstracts
must include 3 to 5 keywords and should provide sufficient information about
the research topic, methodology, discipline or theory in question and the
results of the research. Abstracts should be anonymous and be sent as Word or
PDF to lcprilcaconf2019 at gmail.com

English will be the working language of the conference. Each presentation will
be 20 minutes long, followed by 10 minutes of discussion. The notification of
acceptance will be sent by October 15, 2019.

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