“Encountering the World in Epics of Southwest China” with Professor Mark Bender
This talk will examine on the imagery of traditional cultural and ecological lore expressed in epics from Yi and Miao in Southwest China
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"Creating resources in and for San Francisco del Mar Huave, a near-dormant language," Dr Yuni Kim (University of Essex)
The Huaves are a marginalised ethnic group occupying four villages - each with its own variety of the Indigenous language, which is an isolate - on the Pacific coast of the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, Oaxaca State, Mexico. In San Francisco del Mar, L1 acquisition of Huave (aka Umbeyajts) decreased sharply between about birth years 1925...
Leeds Launch of "Songs we Learn from Trees
Songs We Learn from Trees, the first anthology of Ethiopian Amharic poetry in English, shortlisted for the 2021 Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry, is being launched in a series of celebratory performances around the UK, featuring Kebedech TEKLEAB, Mihret KEBEDE,, Misrak TERFE, Hama TUMA, Bedilu WAKJIRA and Alemu TEBEJE, plus editor/translator Christ BECKETT. We...
CELCE-Extinction Studies DTP Seminar Series, "Cultural Genocide: Unpacking a Contested Concept" w/ Professor Uğur Ümit Üngör
Cultural Genocide: Unpacking a Contested Concept Professor Uğur Ümit Üngör Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies at the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Amsterdam. He has published widely on mass violence and has received awards such as the Heineken Young Scientist Award by the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and the Keetje...
CELCE-Extinction Studies DTP Seminar Series w/ Dr James Rosindell: Making Up Our Minds about Extinction
The second talk in the joint series will run this Friday, 25 February from 3-5pm GMT. We will hear from Dr James Rosindell who is a Reader in Biodiversity Theory at Imperial College London. He is a co-founder, and current chair, of the charity OneZoom (https://www.onezoom.org/) which aims to provide easy access to scientific knowledge...
CELCE - Extinction Studies DTP Seminar series w/ Professor Helen Roy: Predicting biological invasions to prevent extinctions
Title: Predicting biological invasions to prevent extinctions Abstract: The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) Global Assessment’s message is stark: biodiversity – the diversity within species, between species, and of ecosystems – is declining faster than at any time in human history. Invasive non-native species introduced by humans into regions beyond their...
Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia, 18 January 2022
The workshop focussed on the Faifi language variety spoken in al-Faifah in south-west Saudi Arabia, and Razihit, a language variety spoken in the far north of Yemen. The programme was as follows: "A preliminary description of word stress in Faifi Arabic" Abdullah Al-Faifi, Indiana University "Function words in Razihit" Professor Janet Watson, University of Leeds...
CELCE Poetry and nature, pt 3: Light
20th October 2pm BST CELCE Poetry and Nature 3: Light Please join us for our next Poetry and Nature workshop on 20th October from 2pm BST around the theme of 'light'. There will be 9 presentations of 10 minutes each, structured as below: 5 readers (40 mins) + 20 mins discussion Break -...
Exploring ways young people in Soqotra can use film, theatre and storytelling as tools to help preserve the language of their grandparents.
CELCE is delighted to announce that Oliver Wilkins ( www.oliverwilkins.com) will be presenting to CELCE and participants of the Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia group on Wednesday 13th October. at 4pm BST. The title of his presentation is: Exploring ways young people in Soqotra can use film, theatre and storytelling as tools to help preserve the...
Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia
Please join us for our next Southern Arabia workshop. The program is as follows: Adam Vandergriff - The Vowel Space of Kurian Soqotri Alex Bellem - A survey of problems in the interpretation and analysis of Semitic emphatics Keynote speaker: Marie-Claude Simeone-Senelle - The loss of the Dual in Mehri and Hobyot spoken in Yemen...