3L 2012 : International Conference 20 years

"1992-2012: twenty years of research on language endangerment"

July 6th and 7th

This conference hosted international researchers and of the main institutions involved in issues of language endangerment (including l’UNESCO, the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Project, the CTLDC consortium and the Sorosoro programme). PROGRAMME

Day 1. Institutionalizing endangered languages:
from language documentation and archiving to revitalization

• Colette Grinevald (LED-TDR, Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université de Lyon - Consortium 3L
  20 years since (VW, DEL, UNESCO)

• David Nathan (ELAR SOAS, University of London - Consortium 3L
  Training for documentation, archiving

&

• Julia Sallabank (ELAP SOAS, University of London - Consortium 3L
  Thinking about revitalization

• Alejandra Vidal & Lucia Golluscio (Universidad de Formosa & Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina)
  The VW DoBeS Argentina Chaco project: from documentation to revitalization

• Anahit Minasyan (UNESCO – Paris)
  The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger (2009-2012)

• Felix Ameka (Leiden University Centre for Linguistics, Leiden, Holland - Consortium 3L)
  The Volkswagen foundation: on-site training for documentation

• Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara, USA - CTLDC)
  Networks for building capacity in language revitalization: the Consortium for Training in Language Documentation and Conservation

• Julien Meyer (HRELDP & Museu Goeldi – Belém - Brazil)
  Documentation and revitalization of traditional verbal arts of the Amazon

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• Ana Vilacy Galucio (Museu Goeldi – Belém - Brazil)
  Presentation of the Museu Goeldi Indigenous Languages Archive
  (Acervo de Línguas Indígenas do Museu Goeldi (ALIM)

Day 2 -Taking stock and looking ahead:
a critical approach to language revitalization.

• Grinevald, Costa, Bert & Sallabank (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
  Current and future issues in revitalization

• Lenore Grenoble (University of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
  Language revitalization: retrospect, prospects, and beyond…

• Salikoko Mufwene (3L Consortium, LED-TDR, ELAP)
  From The ecology of Language Evolution (2001), to Language Evolution: Contact, Competition and Change (2008)

• Alexandre Duchêne (Institut de plurilinguisme, Fribourg, Switzerland)
  From Discourses of Endangerment (2007) & Ideologies across Nations (2008) to Language in Late Capitalism (2012): What is language used for in late modernity?

• Jane Freeland (Honorary Research Fellow, University of Southampton, UK)
  From Language Rights and Language Survival (2004) to future issues of revitalization

• Colette Grinevald (Dynamique Du Langage (DDL), Université de Lyon - Consortium 3L)
  Honoring 2012 Linguapax awardee Jon Landaburu for his work for the endangered languages of Colombia