Wednesday, 30 November, 2011 to Thursday, 1 December, 2011
The third Conference of the European Network for the Study of Andean Languages (Red Europea para el Estudio de las Lenguas Andinas, REELA) will be held at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig.
There is no particular theme other than any research on Andean languages. The opening morning, though, will provide a general survey of Andean linguistics, as presented by a number of leading specialists in the field. For further details, please see the call for papers and other sections of this website.
An interesting article by a Peruvian/American team of archaeologists/ethnohistorians was published online this week in American Anthropologist : Traces of a Lost Language and Number System Discovered on the North Coast of Peru. The abstract reads:
Wednesday, 5 January, 2011 to Saturday, 8 January, 2011
The 19th Conference of the Student Organization of Linguistics in Europe (ConSOLE) will be held in Groningen (the Netherlands) from 5 to 8 January 2011. From the ConSOLE XIX website:
Tuesday, 27 April, 2010 to Thursday, 29 April, 2010
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.
As announced on LinguistList: "the Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 13th annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.
