Berlin Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving 2025
June 30 - July 4, 2025
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is offering in-person training in Language Documentation and Archiving from Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th, 2025. The training will take place in Berlin, Germany at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
The training will cover the following topics:
鈥� Language Documentation theory & methods
鈥� Understanding and creating archival col
Dear colleagues,
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is offering an online training series in Language Documentation and Archiving from March 6 to June 12, 2025. Applications to participate in the training series are due 30 January 2025.
Please see the call below for more information. Please help this call reach a broader audience for this series by sharing it with your students, colleagues, and others who may be interested in the training.
Best wishes,
The ELDP Training Team
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Dear colleagues,
In the past few months, I鈥檝e written a series of articles addressed to the general public about the weaponization of language and linguistics in the context of the war on Gaza, including viewpoint discrimination and censorship in that context (see links below). These articles were written with Noam Chomsky鈥檚 article 鈥淭he Responsibility of Intellectuals鈥� in mind (see link below). I am hoping to turn the ideas in these articles into a monograph. So I very much look forward to an
Dear colleagues,
We cordially invite colleagues who are (or have been) affiliated with university language departments across Europe to take part in our survey on universities as language policy actors and to fill in our questionnaire.
In the project 鈥滳losing and opening doors鈥� we are investigating the closure of university language training or research programs and the reduction of their resources, as well as the new openings in universities' language training in Europe in the 21st century.
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Articles
North Korean propaganda and counterpropaganda on YouTube: Attribute agendas and relationships with network strengths
Seok Kang | pp.鈥�133鈥�155
Unearthing the disabling perplexities of a Filipino PLHIV online community on X鈥檚 #PLHIVDiaries as socially shared inquiry fostering pakikipagkapwa
George Vincent F. Gamayo, Yhna Therese P. Santos, Vonn Vincent V. Tanchuan & Juven Ni帽o A. Villacastin | pp.鈥�156鈥�179
Evolvement and use of stigmatized expressions in computer-med
Call for Papers:
Our contemporary world is characterised by different forms of migration and mobility: people migrate for work, education and family, they might have to leave a place for political or economic reasons, or they might flee wars, ecological disasters or terrorism. These migrants feel the need to adapt to their new homelands, not least to their language(s) and their culture(s). They need to renegotiate their identity, incorporating new elements and preserving others they have brough
The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics and Kellogg College, Oxford are seeking to appoint an Associate Professor (or Professor) of Phonetics.
The post is offered on a full-time basis, available from 1 October 2025 or as soon as possible thereafter. Applications are welcomed from well qualified candidates working on Phonetics in any theoretical tradition or traditions.
The Chair for Multilingualism and Second Language Acquisition at the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Faculty of Modern Languages, Goethe University Frankfurt, invites applications for a Doctoral Researcher position (65% of a full time position) funded for three years. The position is available starting March 2025, with the salary grade determined by the collective agreement applicable to Goethe University.
Responsibilities
The successful candidate will pursue a Ph.D. degree wi
Call for Papers:
The conference will bring together scholars and practitioners from a range of disciplines, including linguistics, literature, translation studies, cultural studies, anthropology, and education with the aim of fostering interdisciplinary discussions and facilitating a deeper understanding of the conference themes, which can include but are not limited to:
Linguistics
鈥� Discourse Studies
鈥� Language and Cultural Identity
鈥� Minorities in Iraq
鈥� Endangered Language
鈥� Nostalgia and
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sarah Hopkyns, Lecturer in TESOL and International Education, University of St. Andrews, UK
Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Hamad Bin Khalifah University, Qatar
Instructions
Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract (250-word maximum), email, affiliation and a short biography (max. 100 words) of presenter(s).
Email submissions to both Dr. Marta Tryzna (Tryzna.M@gust.edu.kw)
and Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz (L
Keynote Speakers
Dr. Sarah Hopkyns, Lecturer in TESOL and International Education, University of St. Andrews, UK
Dr. Sara Hillman, Associate Professor of Applied Linguistics and English, Hamad Bin Khalifah University, Qatar
Instructions
Individual Submissions: Individual proposals should include an abstract (250-word maximum), email, affiliation and a short biography (max. 100 words) of presenter(s).
Email submissions to both Dr. Marta Tryzna (Tryzna.M@gust.edu.kw)
and Dr. Jennifer Lofkrantz (L
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O evento contar谩 com as seguintes apresenta莽玫es:
11h10 鈥� Developing a Task-Based Spoken Corpus for Researching, Teaching, and Assessing Pragmatics 鈥� Stefania Ferrari (Universit脿 del Piemonte Orientale, It谩lia)
11h40 鈥� AI Meets Pragmatic Annotation: LadderWeb vs ChatGPT 鈥� Nicola Brocca (Universit盲t Innsbruck, 脕ustria)
12h10 鈥� Un Corpus Multilingue per lo Studio di Richieste: Metodi e Strumenti 鈥� Elisabetta Santoro (Universidade de S茫o Paulo) e Elena Nuzzo (Universit脿 degli Studi Roma Tre)
O evento contar谩 com as seguintes apresenta莽玫es:
11h10 鈥� Developing a Task-Based Spoken Corpus for Researching, Teaching, and Assessing Pragmatics 鈥� Stefania Ferrari (Universit脿 del Piemonte Orientale, It谩lia)
11h40 鈥� AI Meets Pragmatic Annotation: LadderWeb vs ChatGPT 鈥� Nicola Brocca (Universit盲t Innsbruck, 脕ustria)
12h10 鈥� Un Corpus Multilingue per lo Studio di Richieste: Metodi e Strumenti 鈥� Elisabetta Santoro (Universidade de S茫o Paulo) e Elena Nuzzo (Universit脿 degli Studi Roma Tre)
For questions, please reach out to us at worela2025@gmail.com
For questions, please reach out to us at worela2025@gmail.com
Call for Papers:
Abstracts should be a maximum of 300 words. Presentations will be 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes for Q&A at the end of the session
Panel proposals should include a group of 3-5 people, abstracts should be a maximum of 150 words for each member. Presentations will be 15 minutes long, with 15 minutes for Q&A at the end of the session
Dissertation Elevator Speech roundtable: abstract 150 words. Presentations will be 5 minutes long. Informal dialogue at the end of the session.
Call for Papers:
Languages become endangered where their speakers are in contact with other speech varieties which are considered to carry greater social prestige. Research in this area has revealed these situations often bring about linguistic changes in the structure of one or more of these varieties. This conference invites papers that reflect on these issues: How are the structures of an endangered language affected by contact? Are there particular kinds of variation and change that are mor
Call for Papers:
Abstracts should be a maximum of 500 words (excluding references). Additional examples and figures (up to one A4 page total) may also be included. Abstracts should demonstrate a link to typological and/or descriptive themes. The call for abstracts is open to all current PhD students. Abstracts should be submitted via OpenReview: https://openreview.net/group?id=ETT/2025/Conference. Please note that it is necessary to make a profile on OpenReview; new profiles created without an
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