News

• ELDP awarded $11 million by Arcadia .
  The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) has been awarded a new grant of $11 million by the Arcadia Fund. The grant is a renewal of the original donation Arcadia gave to SOAS in 2002, which resulted in the inception of ELDP.
  May 3rd 2015, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• HRELP in China.
  Peter Austin accompanied a group of Hong Kong University students on fieldwork in Dimen Dong village, Guizhou, China, 7-15th March (see details here), and gave lectures at Jinan University (Guangzhou) and Hunan University (Changsha) 16th-22nd March.
  March 23rd 2015, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELDP grant round closed.
  The ELDP grant round is now closed. Notification of results will be 15 June 2015.
  January 15th 2015, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• HRELP Annual Report 2014 online.
  The HRELP annual report for 2014 is now online. The report describes the activities of the three programmes ELAP, ELAR and ELDP during the year 2014. It can be downloaded here
  January 6th 2015, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• LDLT conference proceedings.
  All 112 papers from the four Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory conferences held at SOAS (2007-2013) can now be accessed here
  December 21st 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Peter Austin awarded Honorary Doctorate.
  Prof Peter K. Austin has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate honoris causa by Uppsala University for contributions to the study of endangered languages (more details here).
  October 22nd 2014
• ELDP grant round 2015 open.
  The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) offers one granting cycle for 2015. The grant opened on 15th October 2014 and closes on 15th January 2015, 5pm (GMT). Details here
  October 15th 2014, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• HRELP at BAAL Conference.
  Peter Austin and Julia Sallabank gave a joint presentation at the British Association for Applied Linguistics conference, University of Warwick, 4-6 September.
  September 10th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• PAW 2014: Registration Open.
  Plants Animals Words (PAW) 2014 workshop will take place at the University of Kent 3-5 October 2014, bringing together researchers from linguistics, ethnobiology and other fields to share knowledge and skills. Details here.
  August 22nd 2014, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• British Council Research Links workshop -- applications close 7th November.
  Applications are invited by 7th November from UK-based early career researchers (currently enrolled PhD students or those who have recently completed a PhD) for a workshop on "Documenting and preserving indigenous languages: principles, practices and tools", Bangkok, Thailand 8-14th February 2015. British Council which will cover return airfares, local transport, visa fees, accommodation and meals during the workshop. Full details here.
  August 1st 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• EL Publishing launched.
  A new publications venture EL Publishing was launched in Hong Kong on 18th July -- 120 papers and an app available for free download
  July 19th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• HRELP in Hong Kong.
  Current and former HRELP staff contributed to a Summer School on Linguistic Diversity in Asia: Theories and Methods in Hong Kong, 7-18 July 2014
  July 4th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Multimodality and video training in Leeds.
  Mandana Seyfeddinipur delivered training in Multimodality of Language Use; Video recording techniques, and Gesture Coding in ELAN, University of Leeds, 24-25 June 2014. Details here
  June 22nd 2014, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• International Summer School, Stockholm 2014.
  ELAP staff participated in a summer school on Language Documentation and Linguistic Diversity, 23 June - 4 July 2014 in Stockholm (Sweden). Details here.
  April 24th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Seminars in Italy.
  Peter Austin gave a series of seminars at University of Tuscia (9-11th April) and University of Bologna Ravenna Campus (4-15th April)
  April 8th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• LAUD Symposium.
  Peter Austin was a plenary speaker at the 36th International LAUD Symposium on "Endangerment of Languages across the Planet: The Dynamics of Linguistic Diversity and Globalization"
  March 25th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR Occasional Seminar - Prof Lise Dobrin.
  ELAR Occasional Seminar Friday 21st March, Prof Lise Dobrin "Is Collaboration Really a 'Method'? Is 'Data' Really the Goal?", RELOCATED to 22 Russell Square, room T102 -- read more.
  March 20th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Nathan on Open Access in Language Documentation.
  A new blog post by former Director of ELAR, David Nathan.
  March 10th 2014
• Farewell, ELAR!.
  David Nathan left his position as Director of ELAR on 28th February 2014 ... read more
  February 28th 2014
• DocLing 2014.
  Peter Austin participated in DocLing 2014 documentary linguistics training workshop at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 19-25 February 2014.
  February 18th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Linguistics Department seminar 18 February.
  SOAS Linguistics Department seminar Tuesday 18th February, 3:30-5pm, KLT, "Referential density and Differential Argument Marking in Manange, Nar and Manang Gurung" by Oliver Bond, University of Surrey (with Kristine Hildebrandt & Dubi Nanda Dhakal) (abstract here).
  February 17th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• Film: Tongues of Heaven.
  Tongues of Heaven, set in Taiwan and Hawai’i, examines the desires and challenges of young indigenous peoples to learn the endangered languages of their forebears. Includes Q&A with the film director. Showing at SOAS B102, 7-10pm 24th January...see trailer...read more
  January 19th 2014, contributed by David Nathan
• Linguistics Department Seminar 21 January.
  SOAS Linguistics Department seminar Tuesday 21st January, 3:30-5pm, KLT, "Language Endangerment and Sound Art: Interdisciplinary Collaboration and Research Ethics" by Dr John Wynne, University of the Arts London (abstract at bit.ly/1dz4x5l).
  January 16th 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR Occasional Seminar 10th January.
  Mark Turin (Yale University) presented a seminar “Teaching across and with Yale”s Himalayan collections: an experiment in crowd cataloguing”, relevant to those interested in digital humanities, Himalayan languages and cultures, crowd sourcing, metadata, and using library and archival materials as part of teaching. 2pm, 10th January in B111...read more
  January 6th 2014, contributed by David Nathan
• Linguistics Department seminar 7th January.
  Irina Nikolaeva (SOAS) 'On the expression of Tense-Aspect-Mood on nouns: Evidence from Tundra Nenets', 7th January 2014, 3:30-5:00pm, Khalili Lecture Theatre (abstract here)
  January 3rd 2014, contributed by Peter Austin
• HRELP offices closed.
  SOAS is closed from 20th December until 3rd January 2014. We wish all our friends the very best for the festive season and a happy and healthy New Year 2014.
  December 20th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Call for participation.
  UK and Thai early career researchers are invited to participate in a Workshop on Collaboration for Language Preservation and Revitalisation in Asia -- details and UK application form here.
  December 13th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Last Dept seminar of 2013.
  Last Linguistics Department seminar of 2013: "Language ideologies, practices and policies in New Caledonia" by Dr Julia Sallabank (SOAS), 10 December, 3:30-5:00PM in KLT (abstract here).
  December 8th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR @ Paradisec.
  ELAR’s David Nathan gave a paper ‘On the “reach” of digital language archives: towards criteria for evaluation’ at the Paradisec conference Research, records and responsibility at the University of Melbourne.
  December 2nd 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Seminar rescheduled.
  Due to strike action at SOAS, next week's seminar by Andrew Spencer has been rescheduled to Term 2.
  November 29th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Special workshop seminar.
  Special SOAS Department of Linguistics workshop-seminar, 3-5pm 26 November 2013, Khalili Lecture Theatre, "What's a rose? Ethnobotanical methods for identification of local plant taxa" by Dr. Rajindra K. Puri, University of Kent. Note: Participants should bring one 'unusual' vegetable or fruit to the session.
  November 21st 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Pawprints newsletter.
  The first issue of the Plants Animals Words Newletter on documenting ethnobiology is now available
  November 13th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• UK Research Links award by British Council.
  Prof Peter Austin (SOAS) and Prof Suwilai Premsrirat (Mahidol University, Thailand) have been awarded a British Council UK Researcher Links grant for a collaborative UK-Thailand workshop in 2014
  November 13th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Documentary Linguistics Workshop.
  Peter Austin (ELAP) and David Nathan (ELAR) will be participating in the annual Documentary Linguistics Workshop in Tokyo 19-25 February 2014
  November 13th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAP co-sponsors APLL7.
  The seventh annual Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference APLL7 will be hosted and co-sponsored by ELAP on 16-17th May 2014. More details available here.
  November 11th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Adam Kendon on Warlpiri sign language.
  Adam Kendon will be giving the Linguistic Departmental Seminar: "Sign languages in speaker communities" on 12th November. He will be talking about Warlpiri sign language of central Australia, mainly used by women when observing a taboo on speaking when mourning the death of a male relative (abstract here).
  November 7th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Cindy Schneider seminar video now available.
  A video recording of Cindy Schneider's Linguistics Department seminar on "Literacy micro planning in a Papua New Guinean community: Which language is the right language?" is now available online.
  November 5th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Paul Newman seminar available.
  For those who missed the Paul Newman seminar on Oct 15, we now have it available as audio and video.
  October 27th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Seminar on Papua New Guinea literacy planning.
  Linguistics Department seminar 3:30-5:00pm 29th October, Khalili Lecture Theatre, "Literacy micro planning in a Papua New Guinean community: Which language is the right language?" by Dr Cindy Schneider, University of New England, Australia (abstract here).
  October 25th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Linda Barwick podcast.
  An interview with ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Linda Barwick is now available as a podcast on SOAS Radio -- see also this EL Blog post.
  October 23rd 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Linguistics Department seminar 22nd October.
  Linguistics Department seminar 22nd October, 3:30-5pm in room KLT -- "And still they speak Dieri. Language revitalisation in northern South Australia" by Peter Austin, SOAS. An abstract is available here.
  October 20th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELDP grant round 2014 open.
  The ELDP grant round 2014 is now open. For more information about dates and how to apply go here.
  October 15th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Paul Newman seminar.
  SOAS Linguistics Department seminar 3:30-5:00pm 15th October, Khalili Lecture Theatre (Note room change), The Law of Unintended Consequences: How the Endangered Languages Movement Undermines Field Linguistics as a Scientific Enterprise by Prof Paul Newman, Indiana University (abstract here).
  October 10th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Endangered Languages Film Night.
  An evening of two popular films in/on endangered languages. ELAR and ELAP invite you to this free event, including refreshments ...read more...
  October 9th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Linguistics Department seminar.
  SOAS Linguistics Department seminar 3:30-5:00pm 8th October, room 4429, Community theatre: a method for linguistic fieldwork? Marilena Thanassoula, Institute for African Studies, University of Cologne (abstract here)
  October 3rd 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Seminar on Maori revitalisation.
  Linguistics Department seminar 1st October, 3:30-5pm in room 4429 -- "Maori language revitalisation: new generation, different motivators?" by Jeanette King, University of Canterbury, NZ. An abstract is available here.
  September 30th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR Occasional Seminar - Dr. M. Valdovinos.
  For the first ELAR occasional seminar (EOS) of the academic year, Dr. Margarita Valdovinos will give a talk on the The encounter of methodologies: two documentation projects of Verbal Art among the Cora of West Mexico 100 years apart (1905-2005). 27 Sept 2013 @ 3.00pm in 392, SOAS Main building.
  September 24th 2013, contributed by Kakia Chatsiou
• University of Oregon talk .
  ELAR's David Nathan is giving a talk on language documentation and archiving at Northwest Indian Language Institute, University of Oregon, on 24 Sept 2013.
  September 24th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAR workshop at PSU.
  ELAR's David Nathan is running a workshop on language documentation and archiving at Portland State University on 23rd Sept...read more...
  September 23rd 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAP and ELAR presenting at PAW conference.
  ELAP's Candide Simard and ELAR's Kakia Chatsiou, Tom Castle and archive assistants Andrew Clark, Frances Simmons and Ebany Dohle ran a workshop today as part of the Plants, Animals, Words workshop on Language Documentation, Phonetics, Data Management and Archiving. The workshop continues tomorrow and Saturday with workshops on Ethnoornithology and Ethnobotany.
  September 19th 2013, contributed by Kakia Chatsiou
• ELAR in Warm Springs, Oregon.
  David Nathan, in collaboration with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs and Nariyo Kono of Portland State University, is running a community based workshop on language documentation and archiving...read more
  September 16th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Hong Kong University talk.
  The Powerpoint slides from Peter Austin's Hong Kong University talk on 13th September are now available on Slideshare.
  September 14th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Anspayaxw symposium.
  ELAR's David Nathan will join artist John Wynne, linguist Tyler Peterson, Gitxsan participants Louise Wilson and Barbara Harris, Mark Turin (Chair, First Nations Languages Program) and others in the Anspayaxw symposium ‘On Endangered Languages: Indigeneity, Community, and Creative Practice’ at the MOA, UBC, Vancouver on 14th September...read more
  September 10th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAR at INNET and DELAMAN meeting in Poland.
  ELAR is participating at the 2nd INNET conference on digital language archiving on Best practices in digital archiving of language and music data and the DELAMAN business meeting on 6-7 September 2013.
  September 6th 2013, contributed by Kakia Chatsiou
• ELAR has a new website!.
  ELAR has a new website which brings together all our resources, advice, and catalogue of digital language documentation. Visit us at www.elar-archive.org ... read more
  September 3rd 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAR in AHRC-funded Oxford collaboration.
  ELAR, as part of a collaboration with Oxford's Department of Zoology and School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, (and two external Project Partners BirdLife International and Lynx Edicions) is to be part of a new AHRC funded project to help develop EWA - The Ethno-ornithology World Archive. ELAR will provide expertise in the areas of ethics and community engagement, rights and consent, access management, linguistic expertise, and database and archive development.
  August 20th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Dieri language revitalisation workshop.
  Peter Austin will be participating in a Dieri language revitalisation workshop with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation in Port Augusta, South Australia, 1st-4th September 2013
  August 18th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Brunei symposium presentation.
  Peter Austin is an invited speaker at a Forum on Language Diversity in Borneo to be held 27-28th August in Negara Brunei Darussalam.
  August 17th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Ethnobiology workshop.
  Candide Simard is organising Plants, animals, words: a multidisciplinary workshop to be held at SOAS 19th-21st September. Registration is now open here.
  August 15th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELDP summer school in Cameroon.
  The third capacity building summer school supported and organised by ELDP in collaboration with Felix Ameka and ELDP alumnus Ayu'wni Neba is taking place at the University of Buea, Cameroon. The school runs from August 7-21, 2013 and 30 participants from 6 different African countries are attending.
  August 6th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Great Andamanese grammar published.
  Professor Anvita Abbi, former ELAP Leverhulme Visiting Professor and ELAR depositor has just published her long-awaited Grammar of the Great Andamanese Language.
  July 17th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Sharma to talk in Geneva.
  PhD student Narayan Sharma is giving a presentation at the International Congress of Linguists in Geneva on 22nd July 2013.
  July 16th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Freiburg workshop.
  Peter Austin and David Nathan are invited speakers at the workshop Applying Documentary Linguistics to be held in Freiburg, Germany, in late November.
  July 4th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Cambridge Endangered Languages Conference.
  Julia Sallabank and PhD student Nana Ama Agyeman are presenting papers at the Conference on Language Endangerment: Language Policy and Planning at Cambridge University, 26th July.
  June 21st 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Peter Austin seminar.
  On 11th July Peter Austin presented an invited seminar during the 19th LIPP Symposium at Ludwig Maximillians Universitaet, Munich, Germany.
  June 20th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Congratulations!.
  PhD student Charlotte Hemmings has been awarded a LSA scholarship to participate in the Linguistic Institute (LSA summer school) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, 24th June-19th July.
  June 19th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Mandana Seyfeddinipur at the LSA Linguistic Institute.
  Mandana Seyfeddinipur will be teaching a 4 week course at the Linguistic Institute (LSA summer school) at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, USA, 24th June-19th July. She will be teaching a course on documenting gesture use and video recording .
  June 19th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Peter Austin workshop presentation.
  Peter Austin is presenting a public lecture and workshop sessions at Ethnorema 2013 in Bolzano, Italy, 17-19th June.
  June 15th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Felicity Meakins seminar.
  Dr Felicity Meakins (Univ of Qld) will give a seminar How much input is enough? Correlating passive knowledge and child language input in an endangered language in the next of the ELAR Occasional Seminars. 5PM, Tuesday 18 June in Room FG01 ...read more...
  June 14th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Peter Austin seminar presentation.
  Peter Austin is presenting a seminar on language revitalisation at University of Dusseldorf on 13th June 2013.
  June 12th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Lon Marum film showing.
  Lon Marum: people of the volcano film showing and Q&A with the director at SOAS 5pm on 11th June -- further details
  June 6th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Ruth Singer seminar.
  Dr Ruth Singer (Melbourne) will give a seminar Continuity and change in a highly multilingual Australian Indigenous community at 5PM, Tuesday 4 June in Room L67 ...read more...
  June 3rd 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Endangered Languages Week 2013.
  Endangered Languages Week 2013 ends on 28th May with talks on revitalisation and sign languages, and a closing ceremony and reception. Detailed information, including a full programme, is available here.
  May 26th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Congratulations!.
  MA student Ellen Foote has been awarded a Wolfson scholarship for a PhD on 'Yangon Burmese Sign Language - How does Sociolinguistic Variation Affect Signed Discourse and Language Ideologies?' and Soung-U Kim has been awarded an AHRC Doctoral Scheme fees only scholarship to work on 'A corpus-based description and multi-modal documentation of Jeju, an endangered language of South Korea'. We congratulate them both!
  May 3rd 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Third Dieri language revitalisation workshop.
  Peter Austin participated in the third Dieri Aboriginal Corporation language revitalisation workshop in Adelaide, South Australia, 4th April 2013. The revitalisation project blog now has 25 posts and has received over 1,400 visits.
  April 28th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• LDD 11 on sale.
  Volume 11 of Language Documentation and Description was on sale for GBP 10 (25% off) via the SOAS online store. The sale ended 31st March 2013.
  March 25th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• APLL6 conference.
  The full programme for the Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics conference APLL6 is now available. Online registration can be made via the SOAS online store. We look forward to seeing you in London in May.
  March 25th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Dieri language revitalisation project.
  Peter Austin is currently participating in a language revitalisation project with the Dieri Aboriginal Corporation in South Australia -- activities and news are described in this blog.
  March 24th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Workshop: New Tendencies and Methods in Language Documentation.
  Mandana Seyfeddinipur is a plenary speaker at the Volkswagen funded workshop New Tendencies and Methods in Language Documentation at the University of Campinas, Brazil. She will also be teaching two seminars on gesture studies with smal corpora.
  March 20th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Workshop: Cross-modal typology.
  Mandana Seyfeddinipur presented at the workshop on cross modal typology organised by Ulrike Zeshan at iSLanDS, UCLAN.
  March 20th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Video training in Florida.
  Mandana Seyfeddinipur is teaching a two day workshop on the nature of language use and capturing multimodal communication on video at the University of Gainesville, Florida
  March 16th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• ELAR occasional seminar.
  The next ELAR occasional seminar, by Meili Fang and David Nathan, will be on Friday 15th March at 4pm in Room 467.
  March 12th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Report on ELAR users.
  Find out here who is registering to use ELAR and why.
  February 28th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• HRELP at ICLDC in Hawai'i.
  David Nathan (ELAR), Julia Sallabank (ELAP) and Mandana Seyfeddinipur (ELDP) are presenting papers at the International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation.
  February 24th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• HRELP at Tokyo workshop.
  Peter Austin and David Nathan gave papers at the International Workshop on Special Genres in and around Indonesia at AA-Ken, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies.
  February 18th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• Drawn from the ground: documenting verbal art in Central Australia (Dr. J. Green) - ELAR Seminar Series.
  Dr. Jenny Green (Univ of Melbourne) presents her recent work on sand stories of Central Australia, a traditional form of verbal art in which a skilled narrator incorporates speech, song, handsigns, gesture, and drawing to create complex multimodal utterances. Drinks provided afterwards. 12 Feb, 3pm, G51.
  February 7th 2013, contributed by Kakia Chatsiou
• HRELP training in Tokyo.
  Peter Austin and David Nathan are running the DocLing training workshop at AA-Ken, TUFS in Tokyo from 11-16 February.
  February 6th 2013, contributed by David Nathan
• ELF grants round opens.
  The Endangered Language Fund has called for applications for its 2013 grant funding round.
  January 30th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• Award for Prof Abbi.
  Former Leverhulme Visiting Professor Anvita Abbi has been awarded the highly prestigious Padma Shri by the Government of India. For a press report see here.
  January 29th 2013, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELDP grant round now closed.
  The 2013 ELDP grant round is now closed. Notification of results will be 15 June 2013. The next grant round will open 15 October 2013.
  January 15th 2013, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Happy holidays.
  Best wishes for the holiday season and a happy and healthy 2013 to all our friends and supporters!
  December 21st 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR assistants and volunteer.
  Meet the ELAR archive assistants and volunteer at EL Blog
  December 10th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• TLA workshop: Lexus, Arbil and KinOath.
  Shakila Shayan, Andre Moreira and Peter Withers from The Language Archive (TLA) MPI Nijmegen delivered a workshop on new TLA tools development December 7th introducing Lexus, Arbil and Kinoath.
  December 6th 2012, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• Access and accessibility.
  Another blog post about access and accessibility.
  December 1st 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• Meet an endangered language #3.
  Zander's third blog post introduces Eli Timan's work on Jewish Iraqi.
  November 29th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR and 'more open' access .
  A new post over on EL Blog about Open Access, describing ELAR and its mechanisms for access that transcend open/closed or free/pay binary choices.
  November 27th 2012, contributed by David Nathan
• Mike Franjieh's videos.
  The work of Mike Franjieh features in the latest EL Blog post.
  November 24th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• Mike Franjieh on Lingua Franca.
  There is very interesting podcast interview by ABC Radio, Australia, with Mike Franjieh about his research in Vanuatu.
  November 17th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• HRELP-funded project news.
  There is a nice report on Murray Garde's project on Ha, spoken in Vanuatu, on this blog.
  November 14th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• FEL call for grant applications.
  The Foundation for Endangered Languages 2012 grant application round for revitalisation projects is open -- see the FEL website. Deadline: 31st December 2012.
  November 12th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• LDD 11 now on sale.
  Volume 11 of Language Documentation and Description is now available for pre-publication orders at 25% off the regular price.
  November 10th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• Linda Barwick seminar.
  Linda Barwick (Univ of Sydney) presents on her innovative project recording Western Arnhem Land (Australia) songs, with examples and discussion of methodologies. Drinks provided afterwards. 12 Nov, 5pm, FG01. See hrelp.org/eos.
  November 5th 2012, contributed by David Nathan
• Every language matters.
  An evening of events for the general public about endangered languages, 9th November 4-7pm. Everyone welcome.
  November 3rd 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• Open Access Week.
  David Nathan has blogged about last week's workshop on Open Access.
  November 1st 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELDP grant round 2013 now open.
  ELDP has opened the 2013 grant round. For more information on dates and how to apply go to here
  October 15th 2012, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• HRELP welcomes Jenny Martin.
  Jenny Martin has joined ELDP as its new Administrator. Jenny is responsible for the support of ELDP grantees and the administration of ELDP. The team is very excited about the new member. Welcome Jenny!
  October 15th 2012, contributed by Mandana Seyfeddinipur
• ELDP grant application round opens next Monday.
  The 2013 grant application round for ELDP opens next Monday 15th October at 10am BST. For more information and application forms go here.
  October 10th 2012, contributed by Peter Austin
• ELAR blog: Meet an Endangered Language.
  ELAR's new blog now features a series introducing some of our interesting collections. The first is on Surel, a language of Nepal.
  September 28th 2012, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAR at Chiayi, Taiwan.
  David Nathan gave a seminar on Language Documentation and Archiving: New Perspectives on Methodologies and Participation at National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan.
  September 28th 2012, contributed by David Nathan
• ELAR blog post on Archive Interoperability.
  New ELAR blog post on Archive Interoperability Panel at the INNET conference in Cologne.
  September 13th 2012, contributed by David Nathan <">