2009 Conference on Community-Based Language Revival

Submitted by Arjan on 24 August, 2009 - 20:15
Event Date: 
Saturday, 29 August, 2009 - Sunday, 30 August, 2009

From the SSILA website:

The 2009 Conference on Community-Based Language Revival will be hosted by The Three Rivers Language Center, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 29-30, 2009.
Community and tribal organizations, educators, linguists, and anyone else interested are invited to participate in a conference on reviving endangered languages. Special emphasis will be on the participation of the language community. Abstracts are now being taken for conference presentations, sessions, and workshops.
The keynote address will be given by Daryl Baldwin of the Myaamia Project at Miami University and Scott Shoemaker of the Miami Nation of Indiana. The conference will also include dinner with an Old Order Amish family and a special viewing of original prints from the Curtis collection.

More information on the Three Rivers Language Center website.