Inaugural Lecture Series: Professor Julia Sallabank
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5:30 pm to 7:00 pm
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- SOAS Gallery
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- Gallery Lecture Theatre
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About this event
Professor Julia Sallabank, from the Department of Linguistics, will deliver her inaugural lecture, titled 'Language revitalisation and reclamation: theorising processes and ideologies'.
Diversity of all kinds is currently under threat, including the linguistic rights of minorities. This lecture looks at current trends and discourses, and examines ways in which communities worldwide are making links cross-linguistically and intersectionally, trying to preserve minoritised languages and cultures, and protecting language rights.
About the speaker
Professor Julia Sallabank
Julia Sallabank is Professor of Language Policy and Revitalisation at SOAS, University of London, where she has worked since 2007. She is currently Principle Investigator at SOAS for a major Horizon Europe project, 'Revitalising Languages and Safeguarding Cultural Diversity' (RISE UP) and is co-authoring a language course for the endangered language Guernesiais (Guernsey, Channel Islands) with Guernsey teacher and researcher Yan Marquis.
In 2021 she co-published Revitalizing Endangered Languages: A Practical Guide (Cambridge University Press), the first guide to language revitalisation for practitioners. She is also the author of Attitudes to Endangered Languages: Identities and Policies (Cambridge University Press, 2013). With Peter Austin, she has co-edited Endangered Languages: Beliefs and Ideologies in Documentation and Revitalization (British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2014) and the Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series
The SOAS Inaugural Lecture Series recognises that research is an integral part of university life and offers a platform for newly appointed and promoted professors to share their significant contributions to their field while also showcasing the overall strength, depth, and vitality of research at SOAS.
