HRELP staff and students actively take part in conferences and workshops
outside of SOAS, in particular those that seek to raise awareness of the
issues surrounding language documentation and endangered languages.
For a full list of conferences on language documentation and endangered languages,
see the Linguist List's
Calls and Conferences Area.
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“On the brink ? Endangered archives and endangered languages in Africa” Annual Conference of the Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (SCOLMA) 10 June 2008, British Library | Peter K. Austin and Friederike Luepke will be giving presentations on SOAS research at this conference. |
Chirac Foundation Conference - "Sorosoro: let the languages live!" 9 June 2008, Musee du quai Branly, Paris | Peter Austin is presenting a talk "How linguists and communities work together to document, archive and support endangered languages" |
Linguistic Society of America Annual Meeting 4 - 6 January 2007, Anaheim, California | Peter Austin is presenting a paper entitled "How to talk to a menak: speech levels in Sasak, eastern Indonesia". Peter Austin is also incoming Chair of the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation |
Sustainable data from digital fieldwork: from creation to archive and back 4 - 6 December 2006, University of Sydney, Australia | David Nathan is presenting a paper at this conference entitled "Proficient, permanent, and pertinent: aiming for sustainability" |
Linguistics Association of Great Britain annual conference 30 August - 2 September 2006, Newcastle, UK | Oliver Bond and Leora Bar-el gave papers at the conference. |
LENCA symposium 27 - 30 July 2006, Tomsk, Russia | Peter Austin was an invited speaker at this event. |
Third Oxford-Kobe Linguistics Seminar 2 - 5 April 2006, St Catherine’s College Kobe Institute, Japan | Peter Austin was a co-organiser of the seminar on "The Linguistics of Endangered Languages". He and Friederike Luepke presented papers. Peter Austin is currently editing a selection of papers from the conference for book publication. |
Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics: Colloquium "From field to archive to access: Current trends in endangered language documentation" 3 - 5 March 2006, Washington, DC | The Colloquium was chaired by ELDP grantee K. David Harrison (Swarthmore) and included papers by ELDP Panel member Lenore Grenoble (Dartmouth College) "Current trends in language documentation and the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project" [download], ELAR's Robert Munro "Current design issues for digital archives: architectures supporting value-adding access via a user's preferred language(s) and granularity of materials" [download] and ELAR's David Nathan "Sound and Unsound Documentation" [download]. More: see the Event Report. |
Workshop on Language Archives: Standards, Creation and Access 22 - 24 February 2006, 27th Annual Meeting of the German Linguistics Society (DGfS), Bielefeld University, Germany | PhD student Sophie Salffner was a co-organiser of this event. David Nathan (ELAR) presented a talk "Protocol and the language data life-cycle at ELAR" |
Twenty First Annual Darwin College Lecture Series 3 February 2006, Cambridge, UK | Peter Austin presented a lecture on “Survival of Languages” in this series entitled “Survival” to an audience of 600 people. There is a podcast interview about the lecture at http://www.cusp.org.uk/podcast/
There is also an interview made after the lecture which was broadcast on "The Naked Scientists Show" on 19th Feburay 2006 that can be accessed at http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/Shows/Archive.htm |
DAM-LR Workshop and training 26 - 28 January 2006, University of Lund, Sweden | David Nathan and Robert Munro took part in this meeting and workshop, discussing ELAR's current architecture, metadata and access management strategies with particpants from the University Of Lund, Instituut voor Nederlandse Lexicologie and the Max-Planck-Institute for Psycholinguistics. |
Linguistic Circle of Oxford 24 January 2006, Trinity College, Oxford, UK | Peter Austin presented a seminar entitled “The linguistic ecology of Lombok, eastern Indonesia”. The talk was attended by 30 people from a range of interest areas, including linguistics, languages, philology and anthropology. |
DELAMAN III Meeting 21 - 22 November 2005, University of Texas, Austin, USA | David Nathan and Robert Munro participated in the third meeting of the Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archive Network (DELAMAN). They presented a paper, "Introducing the ELAR information system architecture" and led an informal session on "Managing access and intellectual property rights" |
Structure, context, and community in language documentation: The new look of linguistic methodology 19 November 2005, University of California, Berkeley | ELDP grantee David Harrison presented a paper entitled "Ethnographic dimensions of linguistic fieldwork"; ELDP Panel member Tony Woodbury presented a paper entitled "Training indigenous Latin American — and other — documentary-descriptive linguists in a major U.S. linguistics department: Some personal reflections" |
Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica – II, (CILLA II) 27 - 29 October 2005, University of Texas at Austin | Henrik Bergqvist gave a paper entitled 'Semantics of temporal deictics in Lakandon Maya' |
Cambridge University Linguistics Seminar 26 October 2005, Cambridge, UK | Peter Austin gave an invited talk on ‘Borrowing and grammar: some Australian examples’ |
Birkbeck College Applied Linguistics Society 17 October 2005, Birkbeck College, London | Peter Austin gave an invited talk on language endangerment and language documentation |
The Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty 14 - 16 October 2005, Ithaca, New York | Barry Supple (ELDP Chair) and Lenore Grenoble (ELDP panel member) were invited speakers. More: see the Event Report. |
The Multicultural Library: Staff Competence for Success 10 - 12 August 2005, Stockholm, Sweden | Peter Austin was an invited speaker. This was a satellite conference organised by the International Federation of Library Associations Section on Library Services for Multilingual Libraries. |
Language Documentation: Theory, Practice, and Values 9 - 11 July 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts | Peter Austin was an invited speaker. The meeting was organised by participants in the LSA Conversation on Endangered Languages Archiving. |
EMELD workshop on linguistic ontologies and data categories for language resources 1 - 3 July 2005, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA | Robert Munro and David presented the paper "Towards Portability and Interoperability for Linguistic Annotation and Language-specific Ontologies" |
4th International East Nusantara Linguistics Conference: the Typology of East Nusantara Languages 30 June - 1 July 2005, Leiden, The Netherlands | Peter Austin presented a paper entitled “Pronouns and agreement in Sasak”. Anthony Jukes also attended the conference. |
Language documentation projects: The researcher and the community. 22 - 23 April 2005, University of Leiden | HRELP staff members Friederike Lüpke & Leora Bar-el, and PhD students Pete Budd & Sam Hellmuth presented papers. The seminar was jointly organised by Centre of Non-Western Studies, Leiden University and HRELP/SOAS. More: see the Event Report. |
