Conference
Recent advances in
language documentation and archiving
Conference venue and format
The conference will take place in Berlin, Germany at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and on Zoom.
On the two days preceding the conference, September 2-3, 2024 there will be free online trainings. For more information on these activities, please see the pre-conference events page.
Plenary speakers
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Valentina Vapnarsky
Director of research at the CNRS; Director of studies, chair of Linguistic Anthropology, at the École Pratique des Hautes Études
A linguist anthropologist specialized in the study of Maya verbal and written practices in Mexico and Guatemala ; from this experience and her involvment with Wayana people from French Guiana in the SAWA digital repatriation project, she developed reflections on digital returns in Amerindian communities.
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Takurua Parent
PhD student at Université de la Polynésie française
First-year PhD student in descriptive linguistics, studying the grammatical characteristics of the Rapa language in French Polynesia. Her raw field materials (sound recordings) are deposited on a new database: Anareo, which she will be presenting here.
Scientific committee
- Pius Akumbu
(CNRS Paris) - Felix Ameka
(Leiden University) - Aleksandre Arkhipov
(Hamburg University) - Linda Barwick
(PARADISEC / University of Sydney, Australia) - Steven Bird
(Charles Darwin University) - Alexis Michaud
(CNRS) - Katherine Bolaños
(University of Zurich)
- Ana Paula Brandão
(Federal University of Pará) - Gabriela Caballero
(University of California, San Diego) - Onno Crasborn
(Radboud University, Nijmegen) - Gabriela Perez Baez
(University of Oregon) - Patience Epps
(University of Texas at Austin) - James Essegby
(University of Florida – Gainesville) - Victoria Nyst (Leiden University)
- Jeff Good
(University of Buffalo) - Birgit Hellwig
(University of Cologne) - Gary Holton
(University of Hawai’i Manoa) - Jacques Vernaudon
(University of French Polynesia) - Ana Vilacy Galucio
(Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi) - Roberto Zariquiey
(Pontifical Catholic University of Peru) - Zachary O’Hagan
(California Language Archive – University of California, Berkeley)
Contact
For further information, please email the organizers at langdocinfo@gmail.com.