My IYIL2019

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International Conference on Minority Languages XVII 2019

Global / / Leeuwarden/Ljouwert
WTC Expo Leeuwarden

Minority Languages in a Globalized Society Globalization has affected our world in countless ways. For example, it changed (and still changes) how people do business, communicate with each other and it impacts education and language learning. This is also the case for minority or minoritized languages. But while the world is increasingly globalizing, minority languages […]
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01.12.2018 - 28.02.2019

Cookaroo Flow

Asia and the Pacific / / Sydney
Royal Botanic Garden Sydney

'Flow' is a participatory, site- and culture-responsive audio installation by Aotearoa (NZ)-born, Sydney-based artist Allan Giddy which utilises the natural flow of water to convey the voices of First Nations children, speaking in their local languages, around the world. Recorded and edited into soundscapes, the children’s voices are ‘released’ into the water to flow to the oceans.
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28.11.2019 - 01.12.2019

FILMS D’AUTEUR / LANGUES ANCESTRALES Festival du cinéma autochtone

Global / / Paris
Musée du Quai Branly Jacques Chirac Paris France

FILMS D'AUTEUR LANGUES ANCESTRALES A signature film program giving voice to the galaxy of Indigenous film-makers whose works have and will continue to revitalize Indigenous languages, from within and outside the mainstream.
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30.01.2019 - 30.01.2019

ORATORIO ”THE SONG OF NATIONS”

Europe and North America / / ATHENS
Theatre “Anna & Maria Kalouta”, Timokreontos 6A, Neos Kosmos, Athens

THE CLUB FOR UNESCO OF PIRAEUS & ISLANDS PRESENTS THE ORATORIO OF PANAGIOTIS KAROUSOS THE SONG OF THE NATIONS CONDUCTED BY FAIDRA GIANNELOU A concert event for the 2019 International Year of Indigenous Languages The United Nations General Assembly has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages (IY2019) to raise awareness of the crucial […]
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15.07.2019 - 19.07.2019

National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages

Europe and North America / / Oxford, OH; Eugene, OR
Myaamia Center, Miami University; Northwest Indian Language Institute, University of Oregon

The new National BoL 2.0 is designed to build capacity around advanced archives-based research for revitalization. National BoL 2.0 offers training in the management of digital archival collections and advanced linguistic analysis of data for language revitalization to community researchers who already possess archival materials.
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14.10.2019 - 14.10.2019

Language Archiving Session (I)

Europe and North America / / Constanta
TBA

Today the Tatar language in Romania is fluently and authentically spoken only by the generations in their 60s, 70s and 80s. Middle aged generations can understand the language, but they speak it only occasionally and partially, while the younger generations neither understand it, nor speak it. This makes Tatar language spoken in Romania severely endangered […]
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13.12.2018 - 13.12.2018

Writing (About) Writing in Colonial Missionary Grammars

Europe and North America / / Berlin
Potsdamer Strasse 37

Discussion on the key role that writing can play in ideologies of language, as well as the analytical richness of metalinguistic or meta-orthographic expressions for understanding actual use and dissemination
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