Category: ELAR Blog
The ELAR Blog allows you to delve into our collections behind the scenes. Read interviews with speakers and depositors, explore collection highlights, and find out what a day in the field of our depositors looks like. You can also find recaps of past events and information on projects we collaborated with.
Documentation of Oubi
This week on the ELAR Blog, wildlife veterinarian Jenny Jaffe writes about documenting Oubi in Côte d’Ivoire while researching chimpanzees in the rainforest of Tai National Park. You can access the resulting ELAR collection here. By Jenny Jaffe As a wildlife veterinarian, I have worked in all kinds of places where the wildlife is not […]
UNTEACH: a Shadow Heroes Festival
We are pleased to announce that ELAR and the SOAS World Languages Institute, together with Shadow Heroes and the Institute of Modern Languages Research at the University of London’s School of Advanced Study, will present the UNTEACH festival on 3 June 2021. Date: 3 June 2021 Time: 9.45 am – 5.00 pm (BST) Venue: online […]
Community Member Bio: Sara Karami
This week on the ELAR Blog, ELDP grantee Yassaman Choubsaz interviews her research assistant Sara Karami about her collaboration on the project “Western ZEI – Iranian Sign Language in Kermanshah“. A Persian version of the interview is available here. Yassaman: Can you tell us a bit about yourself and your language? Sara: I was weak […]
Behind the scenes: a year of home office at ELAR & ELDP
On the 26th of March 2020 the UK’s first lockdown measures legally came into force, meaning we have now been working from home for an entire year. Read on to find out what the team at ELAR and ELDP has been up to over the past year, what our work looks like behind the scenes, […]
Project Profile: Zapal, an oral literature genre of the Bunaq Lamaknen
Today on the ELAR blog, Antoinette Schapper discusses her project ‘Documenting Zapal among the Bunaq people of Lamaknen in West Timor, Indonesia‘. Antoinette received an ELDP small grant at the University of Cologne. Background Bunaq is a Papuan language spoken in central Timor, straddling the border between independent Timor-Leste and Indonesian West Timor. The Bunaq […]
Western Desert Verbal Arts
On the 26th of February 2021 the Western Desert Verbal Arts Collections were inscribed into the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register. The collections were curated in the AMW Register by ELAR depositors Elizabeth Marrkilyi Ellis, Inge Kral, and Jennifer Green. The collection resulting from the Western Desert Special Speech Styles Project, funded by […]
Project Highlight: Documentation of Hawaii Sign Language: Building the Foundation for Documentation, Conservation, and Revitalization of Endangered Pacific Island Sign Languages
This week on the ELAR blog, James Woodward shares a highlight from his ELDP project. Woody is researching Hawai`i Sign Language. On the first HSL teaching materials: This project is currently producing the first Hawai`i Sign Language (HSL) to English dictionary and the first English to HSL dictionary and the first set of teaching materials […]
Entrevista con las hermanas Sonia y Mónica Vita
Esta semana en el blog de ELAR Pablo Fuentes, becario de ELDP, entrevista a las hermanas Sonia y Mónica Vita Manquepi, dos mujeres que pertenecen a la comunidad Pewenche en Butalelbun, localizada en la región Alto Biobío de Chile. Sonia Vita es lingüista y hablante nativa de Chedungun, la variedad de Mapudungun hablada por la gente […]
Community Members Bio: Sisters Sonia and Mónica Vita
This week on the ELAR blog, ELDP grantee and ELAR depositor Pablo Fuentes interviews sisters Sonia and Mónica Vita Manquepi, two members of a Pewenche community in Butalelbun, in the Alto Biobío region of Chile. Sonia Vita is a linguist and native speaker of Chedungun, the Mapudungun variant spoken by the Pewenche people. Her sister Mónica, […]
Día de Muertos en las colecciones de ELAR
El día de muertos es una de las festividades más icónicas de México. Se celebra cada año entre el 31 de octubre y el 2 de noviembre, en los festivos católicos todos santos y fieles difuntos. En 2003 la UNESCO declaró las celebraciones del día de muertos de las comunidades indígenas de México Patrimonio Cultural […]