Central Asia Language and Education Workshop: Documenting and Describing Turkic Languages

Host Institution: KIMEP University
Website: https://centralasialanguageandeducation.wordpress.com

Dates: 15-May-2025 - 17-May-2025
Location: KIMEP University, Almaty, Kazakhstan, Kazakhstan

Minimum Education Level: Postgraduate students, junior faculty

Focus: Language Documentation, data collection and analysis, Turkic languages

Description:

Central Asia Language and Education (CALE) invites participants to a workshop on “Documenting and Describing Turkic Languages” to be held at KIMEP University in Almaty, Kazakhstan on May 15-17, 2025. Interested participants can register by April 25, 2025. The workshop will include the following sessions:

Documenting and describing Turkic languages - Dr. Adam McCollum, Rutgers University, USA
Analyzing linguistic data - Dr. Aynur Abish, Minzu University, China
Collecting and analyzing discourse data - Dr. Kara Fleming, KIMEP University, Kazakhstan
Multimedia corpus of spoken modern Kazakh language - Dr. Andrey Filchenko, Nazarbayev University, Kazakhstan
Digitalizing textual data - Dr. Gulnar E. Yulghun, Harvard University, USA

Tuition: 40000 or 55000 KZT
Tuition Explanation: Residents of Central Asia (for these purposes defined as Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Mongolia): 40,000 KZT
Other participants: 55,000 KZT

Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis
General Linguistics
Language Documentation
Text/Corpus Linguistics

Language Family(ies): Turkic
Registration Open until 25-Apr-2025

Apply by Email: [email protected]
Apply on the web: https://forms.gle/XCyZSNRA8MoUFyqT6

Registration Instructions:
Please fill out the registration form by April 25.