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FEL XI (26-28 October 2007)day

Working Together for Endangered Languages - Research Challenges and Social Impacts; Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

XIth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages, with SKET, University of Malaya

26-28 October 2007

Programme (Updated a)

Friday (26 October 2007)

Time schedule / Chair / Speakers / Title
0900-0930 / Registration
0930-1000

1. Inauguration

and Keynote / Dr Nicholas Ostler
Prof Maya K David / MC –Associate Professor Dr
Mohana Nambiar / Opening Ceremony
Welcome on behalf of FEL
Welcome on behalf of SKET, University of Malaya
10.00-1100 / Christopher Moseley / 1. Tania Granadillo,
María Eugenia Villalón / From Nostalgia to Hope: The Impacts of a Language Documentation/Revitalization Project Among the Mapoyo of Venezuela
11-11.30 / COFFEE / COFFEE
1130-1230
2. Community Empowerment: Some Models / Prof Maya K David / 2. Rob Amery and Vincent (Jack) Buckskin
3. Mayangna Yulbarangyang
Balna (rep. Elena Benedicto) / Collaborative Language Revival - The Work of Kaurna Warra Pintyandi (AdelaidePlains, South Australia)
A Model of Participatory Action Research: the Mayangna Linguists’ Team of Nicaragua
1230.-14.00 / LUNCH / LUNCH
14.00-1530
3. Community Empowerment: Some Issues / Dr Nicholas
Ostler / 4 Colleen Fitzgerald
5 Simon Musgrave
6 Caesar Dealwis, Maya K David / Developing Language Partnerships with Tohono O’odham Nation (Arizona)
Who pays the piper?
Sensitivity to Code Selected for Discourse: Focus on the Bidayuhs in Kampung Bogag, Bau District, Sarawak
1530-1600

4.Performance Arts

/ Dr Lean Mei Li / 7 Benjamin K. Tsou, Andy C.
Chin et al. / Critical Multilingual Shift in Sanya, China: Accelerated Urbanization and Possible Sociolinguistic Repair
1600-1630
16.30 – 18.00 / TEA / BOOK EXHIBIT
Documentary- FILM / BOOK DISPLAY and TRAVEL Agent (ONLY ON FIRST DAY)
FILM
20.00 / MC Ainun Rozana Mohd Zaid / LINGUAPAX AWARD CEREMONY and CONFERENCE DINNER / AWARD CEREMONY AND CONFERENCE DINNER

Saturday (27 October 2007)

Time schedule / Chair / Speakers / Title

08.30 - 9.30

5. Theoretical
Viewpoints / Dr. Linda Lumayag / 8 Paolo Coluzzi
9 Christina Eira / Deontology of Sociolinguistic & Ethnomusicological Fieldwork, Italy
Addressing the Ground of Language Endangerment (Vic., Australia)
9.30 - 10-00 / COFFEE / COFFEE
10.00 - 11.00
6. Implications of
Education / Wendy Yee Mei Tien / 10 Melvatha R Chee
11 Mark Holt / Importance and Acquisition of Navajo Verbs in Navajo Children (Arizona)
Orthography Development through Compulsory Education (Thailand)
11.00-1200
AGM / FEL Annual General Meeting and Elections
1200-13.00 / LUNCH / LUNCH
13.00 –14.30
7. Government
policy effects – 1 / Prof Elena E. Benedicto / 12 Galina Dyrkheeva
13 Picus Ding
14 Saiqa Asif / On the realization of language legislation in Russia: the Case of Buryatia
Challenges in Language Modernization in China: the Case of Prinmi
Siraiki: A Case of ‘Linguistic Cringe’in Pakistan
1430-1530
8. Government
policy effects – 2 / Dr Lokasundari Vijaya
Sankar / 15 Finex Ndhlovu
16 Talib Jan / Researching Language Maintenance and Vitality in SW Zimbabwe
Field experiences from Indus Kohistan, NWFP, Pakistan
1530-1600 / TEA
1600 / EXCURSION / Visit to Kuala Selangor and Dinner en route

Sunday (28 October 2007)

Time schedule / Chair / Speakers / Title
08.30-10.00
9. Effects of Outside Interests / Prof Tseard de Graaf / 17 Eden Naby
18 Karsten Legère
19 Yoshiyuki Asahi / Saving Souls / Saving Languages: Writing Vernacular Aramaic (W., C. Asia)
Documenting the Vidunda language of Tanzania
Endangerment of Japanese Language in Japanese Diaspora: Evidence from a Russian Island of Sakhalin
10.00-10.30 / COFFEE / COFFEE
10.30 – 11.30
10.Effects ofCommunity Attitudes / Dr Kuang Ching Hei / 20 Pascale Paulin
21 Adrian Clyne / The Baka of Gabon: an Endangered Language and Culture
On two language documentation projects in Brunei, Darussalam
11.30 –13.00

11. Open

/ Dr Nicholas
Ostler / OPEN SESSION / OPEN SESSION
  1. Dr Linda A. Lumayag The Language of the Powerless: Ambivalence of Undocumented Immigrants in East Malaysia
  2. Dr Lokasundari Vijaya Sankar : An Insider’s Obligations as Researcher
  3. Associate Prof Dr Jariah Mohd Jan : Power Relations and Kinship Terms in the Mah Meri Community –
  4. (and possibly others).

13.00 – 14.00 / LUNCH / LUNCH
14.00 – 15.00

12. Final Panel

/ Steven Krauwer / Final Panel: Working Together for Endangered Languages
15.00 – 15.30 / CONFERENCE CLOSE

15.30 – 16.00

/ TEA / TEA

16.00 – 18.00

/ Orang Asli will be invited to demonstrate their craft.
20.00 / DINNER / DINNER (PLEASE MAKE OWN ARRANGEMENTS )