Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization
Friday, 25 March 2011
Location: CRASSH, 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge

Programme

Parallel sessions: 20-minute papers plus 10 minutes each for questions

25 March 2011

9.00 - 9.30

Registration

9.30 - 9.45

Welcome and Introduction (CRASSH main room)

9.45 - 10.45

Plenary Session 1

Professor Peter Austin (SOAS, University of London, UK)
Language Revitalization and Pedagogy in eastern Australia 

    10.45 - 11.15

     Coffee break

    Parallel Session 1

    11.15 - 13.15

     

    Pedagogy (CRASSH seminar room) 

    Arieh Sherris (Academy for Educational Development, Washington), Tachini Pete and Rosie Matt (Snïiiïo Salish immersion school, Arlee, Montana)
    Task-Based Language Teaching Practices That Support Salish Revitalization Efforts

    Tania Ka’ai, John Moorfield and Muiris Ó Laoire (Auckland University of Technology)
    New Technologies and Pedagogy in Language Revitalisation: The Case of Te Reo M?ori

    Hanna Outakosko (Umea)
    Teaching an Endangered Language in Virtual Reality

    Evaristo Ovide (Salamanca)
    Using the Internet and its Associated Technologies to Revitalise Endangered Languages 

    Parallel Session 1

    11.15 - 13.15

     

    Documentation (Seminar room A, upstairs)

    Michael Riessler (Freiburg) and Elena Karvovskaya (Potsdam)
    Purism in Language Documentation and Description

    Amanda Hamilton (University of Hawaii)
    A Psycholinguistic Assessment of Language Decline in Eastern Indonesia: Evidence from the HALA Project
     

    Elena Skribnik, Zsófia Kovats, Veronika Bauer (Ludwig-Maximilian University Munich), Ulrike Zeshan, Hasan Dikyuva, Cesar Ernesto Escobedo Delgado (University of Central Lancashire)
    The Relevance of Language Documentation for Language Users – Models and Case Studies from EuroBABEL

    Ioanna Sitaridou (Cambridge)
    Towards a methodology: Syntactic Investigations of an Endangered Language Embedded under an Anthropological Approach

    13.15 - 14.15

    Lunch

    14.15 - 15.15

    Plenary Session 2

    Professor Dr Nikolaus Himmelmann (University of Cologne, Germany)
    On Language Documentation

     15.15 - 15.45

    Coffee break

    Parallel Session 2

    15.45 - 17.45


    Revitalisation (CRASSH seminar room)

    Colette Grinevald and Bénédicte Pivot (Lyon 2)
    About the revitalization of a « treasure language ». An Update on the Rama Language Project of Nicaragua

    Maria Kouneli (Yale), Julien Meyer (Museo Emilio Goeldi) and Andrew Nevins (UCL, London)
    Whistled Languages: A Continuum of Endangerment Situations and Strategies for Revitalisation

    Julia Sallabank (SOAS, London) and Yan Marquis (Guernsey)
    Language Revitalisation in a Small Community

    James Costa (Lyon) and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus (Provence) 
    Competing Language Revitalisation Movements in Provence: What is Revitalisation Really About
    ? 

    Parallel Session 2

    15.45 - 17.45


    Documentation (Seminar room A, upstairs)

    John Henderson (University of Western Australia)
    Language Documentation and Community Interests

    David Nathan (SOAS, London) and Meili Fang (Ochanomizu)
    Joining the Docs: Envisioning a Revitalisation-driven Practice for Documentary Linguistics

    Alexandra Lavrillier (Max Planck, Leipzig)
    Linguistic and Cultural Documentation, and Applied Anthropology in Pedagogy among Tungusic Peoples of Siberia: Analysis of two Projects' Methodologies

    Jeffrey Davis (Tennessee)
    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL) Documentary Linguistic Fieldwork and Digital Archive 


    17.45 - 18.00

    Closing session (CRASSH seminar room)

     18.15 - 19.15

    Wine Reception sponsored by Cambridge University Press to celebrate the launch of "The Cambridge Handbook of Endangered Languages" (edited by Peter Austin and Julia Sallabank) (Lubbock Room, Peterhouse)


    19.30
    Conference dinner (Upper Hall, Peterhouse)