My IYIL2019

Events

       

21.09.2019 - 04.10.2019

DEL – Euporean Day of Languages

Europe and North America / / Guimarães
Alameda Dr. Alfredo Pimenta, 4810-528 Guimarães

Today more than ever, migrants are coming from different countries and for different reasons: studying, working, seeking a better life, fleeing war … Society must welcome them with open arms, welcome them and accept the differences. This year, the celebration of European Day of Languages ​​involved the whole grouping and was celebrated at different times, […]
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21.09.2019 - 21.09.2019

Celebrating isiXhosa as an official language of South Africa

Africa / / Grahamstown
Grahamstown, Rhodes University

The main aim of the workshop is to celebrate isiXhosa as an official language of South Africa and to also share ways in which we can develop & preserve our languages through research, Digital Humanities and technology.
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23.09.2019 - 23.05.2020

Pūkana: moments in Māori Performance. Te Ihi, te wehi, te wana

Asia and the Pacific / / Wellington
National Library of New Zealand Gallery. 70 Molesworth Street, Wellington, New Zealand

Pūkana: Moments in Māori performance Te ihi, te wehi, te wana, will showcase and celebrate excellence in Māori performance, as represented in the collections of the Alexander Turnbull Library. Pūkana will range far and wide to give visitors a sense of the ihi (essential force / personal magnetism), wehi (a response of awe in reaction to ihi) and wana (exhilaration), inherent to Maori performance.
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23.09.2019 - 23.09.2019

Honor Your Language

Europe and North America / / Missoula
University of Montana

Audra Vincent (Coeur d’Alene Language Programs) and Amy Fountain (University of Arizona), linguists and language activists, are giving a talk on collaborative community language research and resource development. Their work on the Coeur d’Alene Online Language Resource Center earned them (and their collaborators) the Ken Hale Prize.
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24.09.2019 - 26.09.2019

The Inclusion, Mobility, and Multilingual Education Conference: Exploring the role of languages for education and development

Global / / Bangkok
Bangkok

We are all presently witnessing unprecedented levels of human mobility. Alongside an increasingly mobile workforce and increased mobility for higher education, we are also seeing the highest levels ever of involuntary displacement, with over 68.5 million people forced from their homes, including 25.4 million refugees, over half of whom are under 18. In the Asia-Pacific […]
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