Events

HRELP arranges regular events for staff and students interested in the issues surrounding language endangerment and language documentation.

Seminars

ELAR runs an occasional seminar series. See the ELAR occasional seminar page
See the departmental seminars page for SOAS Linguistics Department talks.

Workshops

HRELP regularly runs workshops of various kinds. See the workshops page for details.

Conferences

• In December 2013 we will run the fourth conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory ... read more
• In November 2011 we ran the third conference on Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory ... read more
• In November 2009 we ran the second of our conferences, Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory ... read more
• In December 2007 the inaugural conference marked 75 years of Linguistics at SOAS and 5 years of the Endangered Languages Project ... read more

Endangered Languages Week

Each year we present a variety of displays, discussions, films, and workshops to provide a view of what is happening to languages and what is being done to document, archive and support endangered languages at HRELP and around the world

• Endangered Languages Week 2013... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2012... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2011... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2010... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2009... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2008... read more ...
• Endangered Languages Week 2007... read more ...

Annual Public Lectures

• 2011: "What are we trying to preserve: Diversity, change and ideology atthe edge of Cameroonian Grassfields", by Jeff Good ... more information
• 2010: "Switch or Shift: Code-Mixing, Contact-Induced Change and Attrition", by Lenore Grenoble ... more information
• 2009: "Rescuing Maori: the last 40 years", by Bernard Spolsky ... more information
• 2006: "Endangered Archives of Endangered Languages", by Dietrich Schüller ... more information
• 2005: "Globalization and language endangerment: poison and antidote", by Colette Grinevald ... more information
• 2004: "The Disappearing Sounds of the World's Languages", by Peter Ladefoged ... now available on CD-ROM
• 2003: David Crystal

Other Events

HRELP lecture

June 2012:

Kris Stenzel: The pleasures and pitfalls of ‘participatory’ documentation projects

... read more

3L Summer School

In June-July 2009 we ran the second of the 3L Summer Schools ... read more

Book Launches

Book launch: Birds of the Great Andamanese' by Satish Pande and Anvita Abbi

...more information

Book launch: Atlas of the World’s Languages, 2nd edition ...more information

Book launch: 1,000 Languages ...more information

Film Screenings

Film screening: Silvestre Pantaleon...more information

Film screening: The Last Speakers...more information

Film screening (UK Premiere): In Language We Live - voices of the world ...more information

Exhibition: Endangered Voices, Brunei Gallery, SOAS, explored themes of language endangerment ...more information

Podcasts

Podcast: London's Language Landscape: A student project

Podcast: An Interview with Gabriela Perez Baez (Smithsonian)

Podcast: An Interview with Jeff Good (Buffalo)

Podcast: Lectures at Gresham College:Symposium: Rare and Endangered Languages (16 June 2011)

... listen to more podcasts  ...