Category: ELDP Special Event/Output
Exclusive interview for Shamiram Media
In today’s ELAR Blog, Lidia Napiorkowska shares insights into her recent interview with Shamiram Media, where she discussed her project and its significance. I became a grantee of ELDP in 2015. The generous budget for my individual postdoctoral fellowship allowed me to undertake two fieldtrips to northern Iraq in order to document the underdescribed cluster […]
Gija Dictionary Launch
Today on the ELAR Blog, Frances Kofod shares some news about the Gija Dictionary Launch event in May 2023. This work grew in part from her ELDP Major Documentation Project (2009-2012). The materials collected during the project are available in the ELAR collection ‘The Painter’s Eye, The Painter’s Voice, Language Art and Landscape in the […]
Giving back what is yours
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Simon Devylder writes about ‘Giving back what is yours’: the completion of the Black Sand Stories project with the publication of a book on the vanishing art of Vanuatu Sand Drawing. Explore the materials deposited by Simon in his ELAR collection ‘Black sand stories: […]
The Haydom Language Documentation Training Workshop
By Andrew Harvey and Richard Griscom Of the services that the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides, their Documentation Trainings have to be one of the most valuable. Intensive, practically-oriented crash-courses, trainees often begin the events with little or no knowledge of how to document a language, and will, after many days of hard work […]
virALLanguages – Coronavirus explained in minoritised languages
At a SOAS Alumni Continuing the Conversation Event held on the 28 May 2020, Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Pierpaolo di Carlo discussed the question ‘COVID-19: Can Linguists Save Lives?’ and presented the project virALLanguages. The virtual event was the second in the series, and was attended by over 100 people. What is virALLanguages? virALLanguages is a […]
Contributing to SOAS’s success in supporting UN Sustainable Development Goal
SOAS University of London has been ranked first in the UK and joint fifth in the world for the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal “Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions”. The Times Higher Education University Impact Rankings are designed for research-intensive global universities and are dominated by indicators of research excellence. It provides a showcase for the impact […]
Launch of Archive of Languages and Cultures of Ethnic Groups of Thailand (LangArchive-TH)
Recently, ELDP Archive Support and Development Officer Vera Ferreira has been working on finding ways to make catalogues multilingual and inclusive. In particular, she and the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia at Mahidol University, supported through the Newton Fund – Institutional Links by the British Council, have been working on a new archive, Archive of […]
ELAR & ELDP Autumn Recap: Part 2
To continue with the Autumn Recap part 1, here is the rest of what we’ve been up to here at ELAR, ELDP & SWLI over the past few months! From the end of September until the 5th October, ELDP Archive Support and Development Officer Vera Ferreira joined with ELDP Grantee Alex Garcia and Chouette Films team Anna […]
ELAR & ELDP Autumn Recap: Part 1
We’ve had a very busy and exciting Autumn this year at ELAR! From Language Documentation Training in Brazil to Film premiers in Paris, today on the ELAR blog we will share all we’ve been up to these past few months. *** In October 2019, Mandana Seyfeddinipur ran an intensive 2 week long intensive training in […]
The Rift Valley Research Network: An Introduction
On the ELAR blog this week, ELDP grantees and ELAR depositors Andrew Harvey and Richard Griscom give an introduction to the Rift Valley Research Network, a group of researchers interested in the linguistic and cultural diversity of the Rift Valley. The Research Network was established to make it easier to share research, to help form new […]