Annual DELAMAN Members Meeting
ELAR is hosting the 2025 meeting of the DELAMAN archives — The Digital Endangered Languages and Musics Archives Network — at our offices in Berlin on April 9 and 10, 2025.
Interested in language archives?
Learn more about ELAR and Delaman
International Mother Language Day 2025: Multilingualism in the family- 21 February 2025
Visit the Leibniz Centre for General Linguistics (ZAS) on International Mother Language Day to take part in the symposium talks on multilingualism in families.
When: 21st February, 2-6 PM
Where: Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Eberhard-Lämmert-Saal, Meierottostr. 8, 10719 Berlin-Wilmersdorf
Learn more and register here
"Berlin falls asleep"- First recording session for lullabies in all languages of Berlin 21 February 2025
Join our first recording session of lullabies in all languages on the 21st of February, UNESCO's International Mother Language Day.
When: February 21st 2025, 2-8 PM
Where: Humboldt Forum, Schlossplatz 10178 Berlin
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Berlin training series
We are offering an in person training in Language Documentation and Archiving in Berlin from Monday, June 30th through Friday, July 4th, 2025.
Learn more and apply here
Online Training Series
We are excited to announce our online training series in Language Documentation theory and methods from March 6th to June 12th, 2025.
Learn more and apply here
Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving now available on YouTube
ELDP has launched a new YouTube channel, Tutorials for Language Documentation and Archiving.
Make sure to subscribe to the channel to be notified when new videos are added!
Salon Sophie Charlotte - Metamorphosen 18 January 2025
The Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences is hosting the Salon Sophie Charlotte on the 18th of January from 18:00 until Midnight. The Academy will hold a wide range of talks and discussions with various guests on the topic of “Metamorphoses”.
Learn more here.
Words in Motion: Sign language and craftsmanship in the Himalayas 30 January 2025
As part of the series WeSearch at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, ELDP grantees and Anthropologists Theresia Hofer and Mareike Wulff explain why Tibetan sign language is appreciated in the urban environment of the city of Lhasa, and how Bhutanese craftspeople speak with their hands.
Learn more and book a ticket here.
Talk at Hamburg University on 06 January 2025
Mandana Seyfeddinipur will give a plenary lecture at Hamburg University
at the lecture series: Preserving the Past - Shaping the Future: Zur Dokumentation von Sprache und Kultur.
ELDP Launches YouTube Tutorials channel
ELDP has launched it's YouTube channel on Tutorials in Language Documentation and Archiving. The channel covers a video series on topics like how to create meta data in lameta, how to set ELAN and how to create a FleX dictionary project.
Visit our channel here
Call for applications: Berlin Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is offering an 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.
Learn more here.
Call for applications: Online Training Series in Language Documentation and Archiving
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme is offering a series of online trainings in Language Documentation theory and methods from March 6th to June 12th, 2025. Training participants will meet weekly on Thursdays, live via Zoom, for a webinar and discussion session. They will be expected to complete readings, hands-on practice, and online assessments between sessions.
Learn more here.
A belly full of flying foxes - Metaphors in the Highland of Papua New Guinea- 31 October 2024
As part of the series WeSearch at the Humboldt Forum in Berlin, linguist Carola Emkow and ethnologist Gina Knapp will discuss the use of linguistic imagery in Benabena, a typical highland language of Papua New Guinea.
Learn more and book a ticket here.
Decade of Indigenous Languages: Sociolinguistic and Political Perspectives - 15 October 2024
On October 15th, Mandana Seyfeddinipur will join José Carlos Mayorga and Agata Koch in a round table discussion on the "Decade of Indigenous Languages: Sociolinguistic and Political Perspectives" organized by MigraUp! Pankow.
Learn more here.
Documenting Language. How language enters the archive - 10 October 2024
Mandana Seyfeddinipur and Uta Kornmeier will discuss how languages are documented and preserved, addressing questions about recording techniques and ownership of recorded speech on 10 October 2024.
Learn more here.
Talk by Dr. Alejandro de Ávila - 9 October 2024
Alejandro de Ávila Blomberg from the Jardín Etnobotánico & Museo Textil de Oaxaca will give a talk on "Lexicon, technique and symbolism in Mesoamerican textiles". The event is co-organised by Endangered Language Archive of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Ethnological Museum, Staatliche Museen Berlin, Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz.
Register here.
Grant round closes - 01 October 2024
The ELDP grant round closes on October 1st at 5 pm CEST. Please make sure you submit your application before that. Support statements and References and Host verification are due by October 15th.
24 International Literature Festival Berlin - 5-18 September 2024
Mandana Seyfeddinipur will chair the discussion "Lost/Found in Translation: The Joys and Challenges of Multivocality" on 13 September 2024 at 8pm in Berlin with Mkuki Bgoya, Fiston Mwanza Mujila, Chika Unigwe.
Learn more here.
21st International Congress of Linguists, Poznan, Poland- 10 September 2024
Kelsey Neely, Vera Ferreira & Mandana Seyfeddinipur are presenting a session on "Language Documentation training as an underpinning of grammar writing"
Mandana Seyfeddinipur will lead a panel on "20 years of language documentation: where do we need to go from here" joined by Katharina Haude, Felix Ameka and Andre Shluinski.
Learn more here.