Events

The meeting is aimed at understanding the essential problems associated to the use of local languages in West Africa.

One activity a month, occurring on the 15 of each month. Our activities will alternate between Confederation College and Lakehead University. January - opening, language activity sessions hosted by internal departments at Lakehead University. March - Language party - workshop hosted in the Faculty of Education, May - library teaching and learning resources open house, July - Faculty of Education open house, highlighting graduates of the Native Language Instructor's Program, September - Storytelling, November - language through art and December - closing ceremony, sharing of the art. On the alternate months, Confederation College will host similar activities. We want the opportunity to engage our community of learners with awareness and appreciation for languages spoken on our campuses.

The documentary exhibition (through 10 films) will allow to raise awareness on the necessity of preserving languages in risk of extintion of indigenous peoples of Ecuador and in long-term to preserve their history, customs and traditions, memory, unique modes of thinking, meaning and expression, but also to construct their future. The languages of these indigenous […]

Radio CORAPE will organize a national radial diffussion of indigenous languages and ancestral knowledges, during all the month of February 2019. The diffusion will allow to focus attention on the risks confronting indigenous languages and raise awareness of their preservation and also to promote ancestral knowledges of indigenous communities. Communication is a valued tool for […]

The Symposium on Documentation of Darfur Indigenous Languages shall address and investigate current status of indigenous language use and how researches deal with the issues of minority languages, extinct languages, language and diversity and live languages still used in Darfur since this country had been an independent kingdom from immemorial times to A.D. 1916. Furthermore, the timing of the Symposium will coincide with the UNESCO World Heritage Day that the Center for Darfur Heritage used to celebrate every year for raising awareness of the importance of local languages as national cultural aspects.

This ten-week course is for students who have already taken our Introductory Quechua course, or already know some Quechua. You should be able to form sentences in the present and past tense. Once you register, we will send you a review packet summarzing what we covered in Beginning Quechua. (If you’re not sure if this class […]