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SOAS marks ELDP move to new base in Berlin
SOAS is marking the end of the current phase of the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) as the programme moves to a new base at the Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften (BBAW) in Berlin, when the current period of funding from Arcadia reaches an end in December 2020.
2nd July 2021
Call for Papers: New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties NEWCON 2020
NEWCON is an international linguistics conference organized by the Linguistics Department of the University of Zadar, the SOAS World Languages Institute, Mercator European Research Centre on Multilingualism and Language Learning and CIDLes.
24th January 2020
Mandana Seyfeddinipur to speak at Digital Modern Languages seminar series
Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of SWLI and Head of the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) at SOAS, will speak at the Digital Modern Humanities seminar series at KCL.
25th June 2019
LAPI 2019 - Conference programme now available
LAPI 2019 - Endangered Languages and Language Varieties in the Iberian Peninsula - will take place from 4-5 July 2019.
5th June 2019
Endangered languages poetry anthology to be published this year
We’re pleased to announce that “Poems from the Edge of Extinction: An Anthology of Poetry in Endangered Languages” will be published in hardback and e-book on 5 September 2019.
4th April 2019
Languages in an Open World - LOW 2019 - Call for papers
International conference on “Languages in an Open World” will take place from 20-22 November 2019 at the ECML in Graz, Austria.
1st April 2019
Artist’s illustrations highlight SOAS World Languages Institute’s work on Southbank’s Endangered Poetry Project
A series of illustrations have been produced by the artist Mary Kuper to highlight endangered languages, as part of the Southbank’s Endangered Poetry Project – in which the SOAS World Languages Institute is taking part.
13th August 2018
Grambank secures funding for one more year
The SOAS Grambank project is now entering its second year, and the team are pleased to announce that they have secured a further year of funding.
15th June 2018
Launching CKLD: the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation
The CKLD is a virtual distributed centre comprising institutions at the universities of London (ELAR/SWLI), Cologne (DCH/IfDH/IfL) and Hamburg (HZSK/INEL) and it has been officially recognized as a CLARIN K-Centre.
3rd April 2018
SpeakSOAS is now available for Android
It's finally here! SOAS World Languages Institute is proud to present a SOAS exclusive language exchange app to all users of Android.
21st February 2018
International Call-Out for Endangered Poetry
Multilingual call for poems in endangered languages.
16th February 2018
SOAS World Languages Institute to train scholars from the MENA region in modern language documentation
The SOAS World Languages Institute in collaboration with the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme at SOAS University of London will deliver a week-long programme on theory and methods on modern language documentation with the Zentrum fuer Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft in Berlin.
13th February 2018
SOAS World Languages Institute to collaborate with Southbank Centre to preserve poems in endangered languages
Dr Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Director of the SOAS World Languages Institute, is taking part in a major new project led by Southbank Centre’s National Poetry Library to collect and preserve poems in endangered languages. The launch of the Endangered Poetry Project also coincides with National Poetry Day on Thursday 28 September.
28th September 2017
European Day of Languages Photo Contest
On September the 26th, SOAS World Languages Institute in collaboration with the Endangered Languages Archive will be hosting a photography contest via social media for all SOAS students and alumni. Find out more about it here!
19th September 2017
SOAS World Languages Institute hosts Language Fest to celebrate International Mother Language Day
SOAS World Languages Institute (SWLI) will be hosting a special one day language festival, inviting members of the SOAS and wider community to experience SOAS’s work with languages on 21 February 2017.
13th February 2017
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