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.
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.
