Events

With a view to provide access to information and knowledge to all language users and facilitate their inclusion and participation in building sustainable knowledge societies, UNESCO, in close cooperation with the Government of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug-Ugra (Russian Federation), the European Language Resources Association (ELRA) and its Special Interest Group on Under-resourced languages (SIGUL), and in partnership with UNESCO Intergovernmental Information for All Programme (IFAP) and the Interregional Library Cooperation Centre, as well as with support of other public organizations and sponsors, is organizing this conference with the title “Language Technologies for All: Enabling Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism Worldwide” at its Headquarters in Paris, France from 4 to 6 December 2019.

Translation Commons is setting out the vision for a global workflow to digitize indigenous languages and enable them to partake to today's digital opportunities.

This talk explores the economic, linguistic and socio-cultural value of twenty-first century newcomers in the light of parallel contributions made by emigrants from the island of Ireland to the major economies of the world from the eighteenth century onwards.

The Sami Parliament’s seminar, where the Sami politicians lecture about: – The Sami languages, history and culture, reindeer husbandry for members of parliament in Sweden. The seminar concludes with a panel discussion on Sami policy issues and priorities.

During the marijuana bonanza, a violent decade that saw the origins of drug trafficking in Colombia, Rapayet and his indigenous family get involved in a war to control the business that ends up destroying their lives and their culture.

The Congress on Indigenous Languages, Territories of Knowledge and Interculturality (LITSI Congreso Internacional) aims to propose a preliminary response in view of the growing lost of interest for learning indigenous languages in the national and international context. The lost of interest implies a lost of sense towards different cultural conceptions of life and practices in […]