Next week the Archaeological-Anthropological and Linguistic Focus on the Americas (ALFA) congress will be held in Leiden. There will be presentations given by scholars and PhD students, on a variety of topics ranging from monumental stone sculptures in Nicaragua to Mapuche derivational morphology. There's also a masterclass by Jesper Nielsen on Iconography of Religious Narrative, and a film cycle on indigenous culture in Mexican cinema. See the attached program for details.

The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics will be hosting the third 3L International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description this summer. It will be an interesting two weeks with courses on various aspects of language documentation, from typological issues to recording techniques, fieldwork methods, software for linguists, grammar writing, and courses on languages from South America to Indonesia.