Workshop: Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge & Sustainability
Saturday 27 February, 2010, 9.30am-6.00pm
SOAS, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG, UK
Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Department of Linguistics
SOAS, London ... location information
 Keynote speaker: Lenore Grenoble
Professor Lenore Grenoble is the Carl Darling Buck Professor at the University of Chicago, where she is a world leader in research on endangered languages, with several influential publications and extensive fieldwork experience. She is an ELDP panel member and is involved in several other major international projects. See Lenore's staff page.
Topic
The goal of the workshop is to explore sustainable approaches in our field: sustainability of endangered languages, and sustainability of research (in both theory and practice).
Issues to be discussed include:
- how communities can sustain languages and linguistic ecologies
- links between language maintenance and sustainable human development
- preservation of traditional knowledge and indigenous paradigms of teaching, learning, and research
- making the outcomes of our research sustainable
- whether sustaining languages and knowledge is something that researchers can contribute to, or is solely the responsibility of communities and speakers
Call for papers
Proposals are invited for papers which present cutting-edge research on the topic outlined above. Each speaker will have 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion, followed by further plenary discussion. Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words (not including any references) and should be sent to: elap@soas.ac.uk.
Deadline for abstract submission: Friday 15th January 2010.
Notification of acceptance will be sent by 30th January.
We plan to publish the proceedings of the workshop in our journal Language Documentation and Description.
The workshop is one of the events for Endangered Languages Week 2010.
Programme
| 9:00am-9:30am |
Registration |
9:30am-
9:45am |
Welcome and introductory talk |
| 9:45am-10:30am |
Friederike Lüpke
(SOAS)
Sustaining the Fieldowrker
...abstract
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| 10:30am-11:00am |
Break |
| 11:00am-11:30pm |
Gary Wilson
(University of Northern British Columbia)
Social Change and Language Revitalization in the Isle of Man
...abstract |
| 11:30pm-12:00pm |
Muhumza Moses, presented by Annette Islei
(Mountains of the Moon Univesity, Uganda)
Linking Biodiversity and Language Loss in Africa: Toward a holistic framework for community-based conservation in Uganda
...abstract
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| 12:00pm-12:30pm
| Liudmila Pravikova
(Pyatigorsk State University, Russia)
Language Identity Change and the Loss of Linguistic Diversity in the North Caucasus
...abstract
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| 12:30pm-2:00pm |
Lunch |
| 2:00pm-2:45pm |
David Nathan
(SOAS)
It's about time: skills and sustainability in endangered language fieldwork and documentation
...abstract |
| 2:45pm-3:15pm |
Christine Schreyer
(OBC Okanagan)
Building Language Habitats: connecting Language Planning and Land Planning for Sustainable Future
...abstract
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| 3:15pm-4:00pm |
Lenore Grenoble
(University of Chicago)
On Thin Ice: Language, Culture and Environment in the Arctic
...abstract
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| 4:00pm-4:15pm |
Break
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| 4:15pm-5:30pm |
Debate
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Booking information
To attend the workshop, you need to submit a booking
form by Friday 19 February 2010.
The cost is £17.50 for full registration and £12.50
for student/ELAP alumni/staff registration.
Registration will include a reading pack, tea and coffee
and lunch.
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