Category: ELAR News
This is where we share announcements that are relevant to our users and depositors, such as calls for papers, upcoming events, and news about ELDP grant rounds.
ELDP 2022 Grant Round now open
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) is delighted to announce a call for applications for the 2022 grant round. After two years of hiatus due to the global pandemic, ELDP will resume to provide funds for documentation of endangered languages. In response to the global pandemic funding is available for projects exploring remote fieldwork as […]
KUSUNDA wins Grand Jury Award at Tribeca 2021
Congratulations to Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran, whose VR experience KUSUNDA has won the Grand Jury Award at the Tribeca 2021 festival! ELAR is happy to have collaborated with Felix Gaedtke and Gayatri Parameswaran from NowHere Media on the KUSUNDA project. In the documentary VR experience KUSUNDA, the audience meets Hima as she reminds her […]
Arcadia renews ELDP funding for ten years with 21 million Euro
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) has been renewed for ten years with a 21 million Euro grant from Arcadia. With this generous renewal, ELDP together with the Endangered Languages Archive (ELAR) will continue supporting the documentation and preservation of endangered languages around the globe. This new chapter in ELDP and ELAR’s now almost 20 […]
Workshop at Wikimedia’s Arctic Knot conference
On the 25 June 2021, ELAR, together with ELPD grantee Joshua Wilbur, will host a workshop at Wikimedia’s Arctic Knot conference, titled ‘Unlocking the potential of digital language archives‘. During the workshop, participants will get hands-on experience navigating ELAR, and explore ways of making language archives more accessible and user friendly for communities. Participants will […]
QUEST questionnaire – making archival resources accessible to language communities
This week on the ELAR blog, we want to share a questionnaire with you that was developed by members of the QUEST research project. The goal of the questionnaire is to assess how best to make language materials accessible to speakers of those languages or their descendants. The questionnaire was devised by Ilya Khait and […]
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 […]
Registration for NEWCON2020 open until 30 April
We are pleased to announce that New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties NEWCON 2020 will take virtually 26-28 May 2021. Registration for the online event is open until 30 April 2021. New Contexts for the Use of Minoritized Languages/Varieties (NEWCON) is an international linguistics conference organized by the Linguistics Department of the University of […]
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 […]
And the DELAMAN Award goes to…
Karolina Grzech for her ELAR collection ‘Upper Napo Kichwa: documentation of language and culture‘! The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network (DELAMAN) was established in 2003 as an international umbrella body for archives and other initiatives with the goal of documenting and archiving endangered languages and cultures worldwide. Every two years the DELAMAN Award […]
ELAR launches new platform
The Endangered Language Archive (ELAR) is excited to announce the launch of its new archiving platform powered by Preservica on February 21st 2021, International Mother Language Day – celebrating humanity’s cultural and linguistic diversity. ELAR holds audiovisual collections of endangered languages recorded with and by communities all over the world, preserving their knowledge and languages, making them […]