Endangered Languages Week 2010
Endangered Languages Week 2010
A week of outreach events
Date: 22 February 2010Time: All Day
Finishes: 27 February 2010Time: 6:00 PM
Venue: Russell Square: College Buildings and Birkbeck
Type of Event: Symposium
Language Endangerment
There are approximately 7,000 languages spoken today and half of them are under threat from larger languages.
Endangered Languages Week 2010 presents a variety of displays, discussions, films, and workshops to provide a view of what is happening to languages and what is being done to document, archive and support endangered languages at HRELP and around the world.
Activities include:
- Meet an Endangered Language - a series of short presentations on several endangered languages, where you can learn about where they are spoken, why they are threatened, and experience their culture - as well as learn some basic words and phrases
- Meet a Fieldworker - short informal sessions where you can hear about the practical and human issues in doing fieldwork in locations such as such as Algeria, Australia, Iran, Senegal, and the Solomon Islands
- Open Day - we open our doors so you can meet researchers, see displays of staff and student work, and experience the latest technologies used to record, archive and support endangered languages.
- Annual Public Lecture - Lenore Grenoble Title TBA
- Endangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge & Sustainability: a full day workshop
- a day of international films on endangered languages
- displays from other organisations involved in endangered languages activities
Events and activities
Most of the events are free of charge and open to anyone who is interested in endangered languages. Further details of events taking place during Endangered Languages Week 2010 will be announced shortly.
For more information, please see http://www.hrelp.org/events/elw2010
Organiser: Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project
Contact email: elap@soas.ac.uk
Contact Tel: 020 7898 4578
