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Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty

Cornell Conference on Language and Poverty
October 14-16, 2005

This conference, organized by the linguistics department at Cornell University, has two central objectives: (1) to highlight the complex interconnections of language and poverty for a general audience, and (2) to promote exchange among scholars of language and of culture and poverty as well as community-based language activists on work with endangered languages in impoverished communities.

Day one pursues the first objective of outreach and general education; days two and three are primarily devoted to the second and more specialized effort. Distinguished scholars and community workers from around the world will be joined by commentators drawn from a wide range of departments and programs at Cornell.

There is no registration fee but those planning to participate are asked to register at http://ling.cornell.edu/language_and_poverty/ so that we can plan for refreshments and the conference dinner on Saturday.

Some scholarship support is still available to defray travel and accommodations costs for those who do not hold regular academic appointments or have access to travel funding. Graduate students and people working in their own communities on language revival and maintenance projects are strongly encouraged to apply for this support through our website. Preference will be given to applications received by Friday, September 9, 2005. There is also limited crash space available; you may request crash space when you register online for the conference, or by sending a message to Wayne Harbert at weh2@cornell.edu. Please do so as soon as possible but preferably no later than Friday, September 30, 2005 if you would like somewhere to put your sleeping bag. A list of local hotels is available on the conference website.

The conference organizers,

Wayne Harbert weh2 @ cornell.edu
Sally McConnell-Ginet smg9 @ cornell.edu
Amanda Miller am332 @ cornell.edu
John Whitman jbw2 @ cornell.edu

Posted by Evelin at August 21, 2005 04:40 AM
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