Category: Event & Training Recaps
ELDP Training 2023
Every year, ELDP invites a number of grantees and language documentation scholars to Berlin to be trained in modern language documentation methods and theory. This year’s training week took place from 17 to 24 of May at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. You can read about last year’s training here. The training participants […]
LD&A Pre-Conference Trainings & Tutorials
In the first week of October 2022, the first Language Documentation & Archiving conference organised jointly by PARADISEC and ELAR took place online and in person at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities. The three-day conference with the theme ‘Where Do We Need To Go From Here?’ was preceded by two days of online […]
Looking back – ELAR’s and ELDP’s first year at the BBAW
In July 2021 ELDP and ELAR moved to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW). In this week’s blog post we want to take a moment to look back on our first year at our new institution in Berlin. Opening Ceremony After settling into the new environment, ELAR’s and ELDP’s move to the BBAW […]
ELDP Remote Fieldwork workshop series recap
Leading up to the deadline for the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme’s (ELDP) 2022 grant round, ELDP organised a series of workshops on remote fieldwork. The sessions took place from Monday 13 September 2021 to Friday 17 September 2021, and were based on a series of forthcoming papers in LD&C. All five workshops were recorded and […]
Opening Ceremony at BBAW – Festveranstaltung zur Eröffnung des Zentrums für die Dokumentation bedrohter Sprachen
In July 2021 the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) and the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) moved to the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities (BBAW) in Berlin, Germany. On 8 September 2021 the official opening ceremony for the Center for the Documentation of Endangered Languages took place at the BBAW. Im Juli 2021 gaben das […]
The Colour of Words – Bloomsbury Festival 2020
Artist Mary Kuper will present a series of paintings on colour terms in different languages with the title ‘The Colour of Words’ at this year’s Bloomsbury Festival. The Bloomsbury Festival 2020 takes place from the 16th to the 25th of October as a range of digital, outdoor and gallery events. Many of the events are […]
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 […]
Virtual Language Fest
SOAS World Languages Institute, ELAR and ELDP host a virtual celebration of International Mother Language Day! International Mother Language Day was proclaimed by the General Conference of UNESCO in November 1999 “to promote the preservation and protection of all languages used by peoples of the world”. The idea to celebrate International Mother Language Day was the […]
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 […]