Endangered Languages Week 2013 - Celebrating our Sounds, Signs and Songs
Various speakers
Date: 20 May 2013Time: 9:00 AM
Finishes: 28 May 2013Time: 5:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College BuildingsRoom: Various rooms
Type of Event: Conference
Series: Endangered Languages Week
Monday 20 May
ELDP Africa day
A day of activities on language documentation in Africa by alumni, grantees, collaborators and friends of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
9:30am-5pm, Room G03 (43 Gordon Square)
Workshop: New data, methods, and approaches to African language documentation
9:30am-2pm, Room G03 (43 Gordon Square)
Keynote by Felix Ameka: How linguists endanger languages
Room G03 (43 Gordon Square), 2:30am-4.00 pm
Book Launch: Friederike Lüpke & Anne Storch: Repertoires and choices in African languages
Room G03 (43 Gordon Square), 4:00am-4.30 pm
Film Trailer Showing: The Confluence of Agnack Agnack Kanraxël (Senegal) by Remigiusz and Anna Sowa
Room G03 (43 Gordon Square), 4:30am-5.00 pm
Tuesday 21 May
ELAR Archive Open Day
Displays and demonstrations 12-4:30pm Room 346
- Historical recording equipment (Bernard Howard)
- Tibetan collections and Tibetan scripts (Andrew Clark)
- Children documenting language and culture: games and toys in Ikakumo
- William Dawes digital manuscript (David Nathan, with SOAS Library Special Collections)
- The ELAR quiz (prize draw 4pm)
Debate: "We should save endangered languages" 2-3pm, Room B111 (Brunei Gallery)
Public debate between teams consisting of year 8 students from Bow School, London, and SOAS students and staff
Seminar: Negotiating authority, constructing solidarity: the use of multilingual repertoires in a Cape Town primary school
Caroline Kerfoot; Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden 3:30-5pm, Room 4418
Wednesday 22 May
Film Day: Films on/in endangered languages
TBC
Seminar: Endangered Languages and Technology: How can indigenous communities and academics use Silicon Valley for their own needs?
Sarah Ogilvie; Amazon Corporation 1-2pm, Room 4421
Seminar: ‘The Bones of Songs’: Exploring the Connections between Kam Minority Music and Language
Catherine Ingram; Department of Music, SOAS 4:30-6:30pm, Room 4418
Thursday 23 May
Workshop: The problem of accounting for TAME and related expressions in the context of language documentation and description
Henrik Bergqvist; Stockholm University 12-3pm, Room FG01 (Faber Building)
Seminar: Game changers? Multilingual learners in a Cape Flats primary school (South Africa)
Caroline Kerfoot; Centre for Research on Bilingualism, Stockholm University, Sweden 5-6pm, Room 4421
This is a joint seminar with the Centre for African Studies
Friday 24 - Saturday 25 May
Conference: APLL6 Conference on Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics
10am-5pm, location: see conference web page
Tuesday 28 May
Seminar: And still they speak Dieri. Language revitalisation in northern South Australia
Peter Austin; Linguistics, SOAS
Seminar: The importance of language documentation and corpora for sign languages
Kearsy Cormier (Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL), Adam Schembri (La Trobe University, Melbourne) & Jordan Fenlon (Deafness Cognition and Language Research Centre, UCL) 3:30-5pm, Room 4418
BSL interpreters will be present at this event
Closing event: TBA
Further details can be found on the HRELP Website
Organiser: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
