Endangered Languages Week · Open Day
Monday 22 February 2010

Exhibition & displays, demonstrations, software, posters, books and a quiz prize draw

All in Brunei Suite, Brunei Gallery · 10am-4:00pm · drop in at any time

Quiz - win £30 !

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DCAL (Deafness, Cognition and Language Research Centre)
DCAL are based at University College London and bring together leading Deaf and hearing researchers in the fields of sign linguistics, psychology, and neuroscience

EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) 10am-1pm
The Programme's aim is to contribute to the preservation of archival material that is in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration world-wide. The main means by which the Programme achieves this is through the creation of digital or microfilm copies of endangered materials and the relocation of the originals to a safe local archival home

ELAP (Endangered Languages Academic Programme)
Meet staff and students from SOAS’ unique postgraduate programme in endangered languages

ELAR (Endangered Languages Archive) 1.30pm-2.30pm
A demonstration by the Hans Rausing Endangered Language Archive

ELDP (Endangered Languages Documentation Programme)
ELDP has funded over 150 teams to document endangered languages across the world

FEL (Foundation for Endangered Languages) 12pm-3pm
FEL aims to raise awareness of endangered languages, both inside and outside the communities where they are spoken, through all channels and media

LLAS (Subject Centre for Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies)
one of 24 Subject Centres funded by the Higher Education Academy, their primary aim is to support learning and teaching of Languages, Linguistics and Area Studies across UK Higher Education

MA and PhD Poster Presentations
Presentations from students of the Endangered Languages Academic Programme: Tracey Caro Noya, Jenny Marshall, Louise Ashmore, Mike Franjieh, Radu Voica, Stuart McGill and Pete Budd

Manchester University (School of Languages, Linguistics and Cultures)
Presentation of project work by Eva Schultze-Berndt and Serge Sagna

Publishers
Book displays and discounted books from Oxford University Press, Cambridge and Multi Lingual Matters

SOAS Open Air Radio
SOAS Open Air Radio will be broadcasting programmes throughout Endangered Languages Week, tune in to listen to interviews with Lenore Grenoble and Friederike Lüpke

Surrey Morphology Group
The research of the SMG combines the investigation of grammatical categories in a broad sample of languages with the use of explicit formal and statistical frameworks for the expression of typological and theoretical generalizations

Survival International
The movement for tribal peoples

WOLP (World Oral Literature Project)