LINGUIST List 22.1739

Tue Apr 19 2011

Calls: Language Documentation, Anthropological Linguistics/Poland

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        1.     Nicole Nau , 4th International Conference on Latgalistics
Message 1: 4th International Conference on Latgalistics
Date: 18-Apr-2011
From: Nicole Nau <naunicolamu.edu.pl>
Subject: 4th International Conference on Latgalistics
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Full Title: 4th International Conference on Latgalistics
Date: 29-Sep-2011 - 30-Sep-2011 Location: Poznan, Poland Contact Person: Nicole Nau
Meeting Email: < click here to access email >
Web Site: http://www.staff.amu.edu.pl/~baltolog/konferencja.html
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation

Call Deadline: 15-May-2011

Meeting Description:

4th International Conference on Latgalistics:Documentation of Endangered Languages and Cultures - from TraditionalRecords to Digital ResourcesSeptember 29-30, 2011, Poznań, Poland

Commemorating the 120th anniversary of Stefania Ulanowska's study ‘ŁotyszeInflant Polskich’

Stefania Ulanowska's Łotysze Inflant Polski (1891, 1892, 1895) is the mostcomprehensive documentation of 19th century Latgalian traditional cultureand of a Latgalian dialect. Its three volumes contain ethnographicdescriptions and a large collection of traditional tales, songs, andproverbs, collected during fieldwork, transcribed in a practicalorthography and translated into Polish. It represents the best ethnographicpractice of the time, and thanks to this particular methodology, documentsof numerous endangered languages and cultures have been preserved for latergenerations. Such motivation and these traditional methods of gatheringdata in fieldwork and publishing them in print have not lost theirimportance, but thanks to new technologies they have been supplemented bynew forms: films, web-sites, electronic corpora, on-line dictionaries,multi-media presentations, and others.

The annual International Conference on Latgalistics was founded in 2008 inSt. Petersburg as a forum for research on Latgalian language, literature,and culture. A volume of articles based on papers held at the conference ispublished in the subsequent year as a supplement to the journal ViaLatgalica (Rēzekne, Latvia), which has an international editorial board.

Scholars from other fields are invited to join in the discussion on relatedtopics.

Conference Committee:

Aleksey Andronov (Saint Petersburg State University)Lidija Leikuma (University of Latvia)Nicole Nau (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)Ilga Šuplinska (Rēzekne University College)

Local Organization:

Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznanInstitute of Linguistics, Department of Baltic languages

Conference fee: 150 PLN (regular) / 75 PLN (students).

Call for Papers:

In 2011 we invite papers on the following topics:

- Documentation of Latgalian language and culture, and the use of suchdocumentation in research and education- Documentation of other endangered languages and cultures, with a focus onthe languages of the historical Rzeczpospolita, as well as methodologicalquestions of documentation- Work of Stefania Ulanowska- Other topics concerning Latgalian language, literature, and culture

Conference languages: Latgalian, Latvian, English, Polish.

Time for presentation: 30 minutes including discussion.

Application:

Please send an e-mail with your name, institutional affiliation, andcontact information (mailing address and e-mail address) and attach anabstract of about 300 words.

Abstracts must be received by May 15, 2011. Notification of acceptance willbe by May 30, 2011.

Abstracts of accepted papers will be published on the conference's homepage.

Mailing address: baltologamu.edu.pl


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