LINGUIST List 5.1411

Thu 08 Dec 1994

Confs: Dartmouth College, University of Bristol

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1. Lenore A. Grenoble, Endangered Languages Conference at Dartmouth
2. "D.A.Brickley", THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Dartmouth College will be hosting a conference on Endangered Languages
February 3-5, 1995. The focus of the conference is on areal problems of
endangered languages and prospects for their survival.

The conference is sponsored by generous contributions from:
The Steffens Twenty-first Century Fund
The Dickey Center for International Understanding
The Rockefeller Center

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:

Friday, February 3
8:00pm Keynote address: Michael Krauss, University of Alaska, Fairbanks

Saturday, February 4
9:30-12:00 Panel on (Northern) Native American Languages
 moderator: Lenore Grenoble
 Dartmouth College, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science and
 Russian Department

 Leanne Hinton
 University of California, Berkeley, Department of Linguistics

 Marianne Mithun
 University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Linguistics

 Ofelia Zepeda
 University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics

12:00-2:00 Lunch

2:00-4:30 Panel on (Southern) Native American Languages
 moderator: John Watanabe
 Dartmouth College, Department of Anthropology and Latin American and
 Caribbean Studies Program

 Colette Craig
 University of Oregon, Department of Linguistics

 Nora England
 University of Iowa, Department of Anthropology

 Kenneth Hale
 Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Linguistics and
 Philosophy

5:30-6:30 Reception

Sunday, February 5
9:00-11:30 Panel on Alaskan/Siberian Languages
 moderator: Sergei Kan
 Dartmouth College, Program in Native American Studies and Department
 of Anthropology

 Michael Krauss
 University of Alaska, Fairbanks, Alaska Native Language Center

 Nikolai Vakhtin
 Institute of Linguistic Research, Russian Academy of Science, St.
 Petersburg

 Anthony Woodbury
 University of Texas, Austin, Department of Linguistics

11:30-1:00 LUNCH

1:00-3:30 Panel on African Languages
 moderator: Lindsay Whaley
 Dartmouth College, Program in Linguistics and Cognitive Science

 Eyamba Bokamba
 University of Illinois, Department of Linguistics

 Matthias Brenzinger
 Institut fur Afrikanistik, University of Cologne

 Carol Myers-Scotton
 University of South Carolina, Linguistics Program

3:30-3:45 Coffee Break
3:45-5:45 Roundtable discussion

REGISTRATION:
Fees: $10 for students $20 for faculty
For information regarding registration and accomodations, contact:

Lenore Grenoble (lenore.grenobledartmouth.edu)
Lindsay Whaley (lindsay.whaleydartmouth.edu)
Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science
Dartmouth College
Hanover, NH 03755

 THE CENTRE FOR THEORIES OF LANGUAGE AND LEARNING
 UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL DEPARTMENT OF PHILOSOPHY
 announces a seminar on
 THE CONSERVATION OF ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

 Friday April 21st 1995 at 9 Woodland Rd, Bristol BS8 1TB

 According to reliable estimates, half of the world's six
thousand languages will become extinct in the next century.
Furthermore, two thousand of the remaining three thousand
languages will be threatened during the century after next.
In the UK these startling facts have recently received media
attention, stimulated partly by the publication this year of
the Atlas of the World's Languages, edited by Christopher
Moseley and R.E.Asher (Routledge).
 The rapid decline is largely due to a mixture of economic
and political pressures affecting communities that speak
minority languages, pressures which remove the new
generation's motivation for communicating in their
traditional language.
 The problem of language-extinction raises fundamental
questions. What is the value of these threatened languages
to science and to humankind in general? What principles
might justify us in striving to keep small languages alive?
What reasons are there for preserving them in archive form?
 The seminar is aimed primarily at academics from such
disciplines as philosophy, ethics, anthropology,
linguistics, sciolinguistics, cultural history, ecology and
population biology, but is open to all interested persons.

 Seminar Programme

 Registration Desk opens 9.30a.m.

10-11am Mapping the Future of the World's Languages
 Mr.Christopher Moseley,
 Co-editor of Atlas of the World's Languages 1994

11-12 Should Linguistic Diversity be Preserved?
 Dr. Mark Pagel,
 Dept of Zoology, Oxford University

12-1 Who Wants to Learn a Native Language in Latin America?
 Prof. Marcelo Dascal,
 Inst.of Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

1-2 Lunch

2-3 Thinking Twice:
 Issues in Welsh as a Second Language in Children Under 5
 Ms. Sian Wyn Siencyn,
 Language Consultant, Author of The Sound of Europe

3-4 Orchestrating Language Revival
 Mr. Allan Wynne Jones,
 European Bureau for Lesser Used Languages

4-6 Round Table and Discussion with contributions from the floor

For further information (including accomodations and registration details),
contact the seminar organisers Dan Brickley and Andrew Woodfield
(email: centre-tllbristol.ac.uk)

A background article on the topic is also available by email
or by accessing the CTLL World Wide Web pages using the following
Internet URL:
 http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/Philosophy/CTLL/