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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
SOAS World Languages Institute partner in Almut Hintze's ERC project, ‘The Multimedia Yasna’
The SOAS World Languages Institute will be a partner in Almut Hintze's ERC project, ‘The Multimedia Yasna', providing training and support for the digital humanities aspects of the project.
18th November 2016
SOAS World Languages Institute partners with Grambank project
SOAS World Languages Institute partners with Grambank project at Max Planck Institute of the Science of Human History in Jena and the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen
5th October 2016
SOAS World Languages Institute partners with Docip based in Geneva
SWLI announces a new partnership
28th September 2016
SOAS World Languages Institute celebrates European Day of Languages
The SOAS World Languages Institute celebrated the European Day of Languages by collaborating with the language learning company Memrise to bring a taste of language learning to new students.
27th September 2016
SOAS World Languages Institute collaborates with Memrise
SWLI announces a new collaboration with Memrise, a language learning company based in East London.
22nd September 2016
SOAS’s Endangered Languages Archive collaborates with artist Lena Herzog
SOAS University of London’s World Languages Institute and the Endangered Languages Archive have collaborated with artist Lena Herzog in the creation of an immersive multimedia installation Last Whispers (Oratorio for Vanished Voices, Collapsing Universes and a Fallen Tree), which addresses the loss of world's linguistic and cultural diversity.
2nd September 2016
SOAS to host UNESCO event to discuss revision of language index
UNESCO in cooperation with SOAS World Languages Institute, supported by the London Middle East Institute in UK, is organising a two-day consultative expert meeting on the revision of UNESCO’s Language Vitality Index which will be used for the development of UNESCO’s World Atlas of Languages.
17th November 2015
SOAS films win two categories at AHRC Research In Film Awards
Two films produced by SOAS, University of London scholars have won their individual categories at last night’s Arts & Humanities Research Council the Research In Film Awards Ceremony, held at the British Film Institute.
13th November 2015
The language of food brought to life in new public exhibition
Digital Archivist for the School’s Endangered Languages Archive, Sophie Salffner’s research project is about to begin a public exhibition at the News of the World art gallery in Deptford.
30th October 2015
Scholars secure recognition of ‘exceptional value’ of two endangered languages
Priceless cultural heritage is lost when language communities are displaced by civil war and urban migration. However, research by SOAS linguists on two endangered languages in Senegal has brought international recognition of their value, together with work to preserve them.
23rd October 2015