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Leanne Hinton ling lunch | Thursday, July 11, 1pm | Lockkeeper's Cottage

9 July 2015

Time: 9:07am
Venue: Lockkeeper's Cottage, First Floor

Leanne Hinton, professor emerita at UC Berkeley and renowned for her research/advocacy work on revitalizing/obsolescing languages (cf. Hinton and Hale 2001), will be in the UK next week and will be our guest at a QMUL Ling Lunch.

Time: 1-2pm
Date: Thursday, 11 July
Place: Lockkeeper's Cottage, First Floor

Her talk will include updates from last month's Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages in Washington, DC:
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL/BOL_2013_FAQs
http://www.endangeredlanguagefund.org/BOL_2013_history.php

The Breath of Life workshops, started by Leanne in California some 20 years ago alongside the master-apprentice program, pair Native American heritage learners, activists, and community members with linguist mentors.

The set-up will be informal; discussion, diversity, and debate welcome. Bring your lunch!

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MORE ABOUT LEANNE HINTON:
http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/people/person_detail.php?person=17

"Leanne Hinton continues to work with many different Native American and First Nations groups on language learning and revitalization. Currently she is helping develop documentation and language lessons for Karuk and Kashaya, working closely with a master-apprentice language program in British Columbia for over a dozen Northwest Coast languages run by the First Peoples Heritage, Language and Culture Council, and continuing her long-term work with the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival with its various programs available to all California Indian people." (http://linguistics.berkeley.edu/research/field/) 

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