Conference | Symposium
Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward
- Date
- Thursday 29 September 2022 - Friday 30 September 2022
- Location
- Faculty Club Restaurant, Rapenburg 73
Symposium
The inauguration of Felix Ameka will commence on Thursday 29th September with a Symposium with the theme Ethnolinguistic vitality and diversity: Looking back and moving forward.
Programme Thursday 29th September
| 09.30-10.00 | Walk-in Tea and coffee | |
| 10.00-10.15 | Frieda Steurs, Secretary General, CIPL, Director INT & Lisa Cheng, Director, LUCL | Welcome |
| 10.15-11.00 |
Mandana Seyfeddinipur Director, ELDP/ELAR, Berlin-Brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften |
And after 20 years we have just scratched the surface … |
| 11.00-11.45 | Gabriela Paez Baez, Oregon, Director Language Revital-ization Lab & Co-Director, the National Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages | Relevance of language revitalization in a diversity of vitality contexts and support strategies |
| 11.45-12.30 | Birgit Hellwig, U Cologne, Language Documentation and Psycholinguistics | Child language documentation |
| 12.30-14.00 | Lunch | Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) Rapenburg 61, 2311 GJ Leiden |
| 14.00-14.45 | Serge Sagna, Manchester U, Multilingualism, Child language acquisition, language policy and planning | Language socialisation fosters language maintenance in the Casamance, but minority languages are still seriously threatened |
| 14.45-15.30 | Rachel Ayuk Ojong Diba, U Buea & SUNY Buffalo, sociolinguistics, multi-lingualism, conversational analysis | Space: A determining variable in the documentation of multilingualism |
| 15.30-15.45 | Tea and coffee break | |
| 15.45-16.30 | Anne Pauwels, SOAS & U Melbourne, Multilingualism and language education, language maintenance and language issues in refugee centres | Exploring multilingual soundscapes |
| 16.30-17.00 | General Discussion: Key issues of the day | Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) Rapenburg 61, 2311 GJ Leiden |
| 18.00- | Dinner | Surakarta, Noordeinde 51 – 53, 2311CB Leiden |
Programme Friday 30th September
| 09.00-09.30 | Walk-in Tea and Coffee | |
| 09.30-10.15 | James Essegbey, U Florida, language documentation and description, language contact, pidgins and creoles, orthography development |
Writing as a double edged sword: Implications for literacy and vitality |
| 10.15-11.00 | Zinnia Mevawalla: U Strath-clyde, Scotland UK, Early years education, inclusion and equity for children and families, post-colonialism | The complexities of early English-language learning in education-focused NGOs in India: Policies, Perspectives and Post-colonialism |
| 11.00-11.15 | Tea and coffee break | |
| 11.15-12.00 | Deborah Hill, U. Canberra, language documentation and description, language in development and sustainability studies | Global concepts and ethnolinguistic diversity: how documentary linguistics can contribute to policies and strategies on gender equity |
| 12.00-12.30 | Azeb Amha, ASC Leiden, language documentation and description & Komla Tsey, Cairns Institute, James Cook U., Education for social sustainability, well-being in marginalized communities and development | Book launch Languages, Linguistics and Development Practices, Deborah Hill and Felix K. Ameka (eds.) Palgrave 2022 |
| 12.30-13.00 | Eline van der Veken Brill Publishers | Retrodigitalisation project Linguistic Bibliography |
| 13.00-14.00 | Lunch | Instituut voor de Nederlandse Taal (INT) Rapenburg 61, 2311 GJ Leiden |
| 16.00-17.00 | Felix K. Ameka, Inaugural Lecture | Groot Auditorium Academiegebouw Rapenburg 73 |
On the 30th of September Felix Ameka will give his inaugural lecture: Turning the tides from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality (register or follow the livestream).
Turning the tide from language endangerment to ethnolinguistic vitality