{"id":3688,"date":"2008-05-13T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T08:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/05\/chirac-foundation-sponsors-endangered-languages-event\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:49:19","slug":"chirac-foundation-sponsors-endangered-languages-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2008\/05\/chirac-foundation-sponsors-endangered-languages-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Chirac Foundation sponsors Endangered Languages event"},"content":{"rendered":"

The recently established Fondation Chirac<\/a> in collaboration with the Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly<\/a> and Unesco is organising a one-day public event to be held on Monday 9th June in Paris called “SOROSORO pour que vivent les langues du monde!” (SOROSORO long live the languages of the world! ). Sorosoro<\/i> in the Araki language of Vanuatu means “breath, word, language”. The event will highlight the current situation of language diversity and endangered languages and includes presentations by linguists from France, Gabon, Guatemala, UK and Vanuatu.
\nThe programme begins at 3pm in the Claude Levi-Strauss Theatre<\/i> at the Museum and includes the following presentations (my translations of the French original):<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
3pm\n<\/td>\nRozenn Milin, Director of the
\nSorosoro Project\n<\/td>\n		Presentation of the Sorosoro
\nProject\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\n<\/td>\nErik Orsenna, author, winner of
\nthe Goncourt Prize and member of the Academie Francaise and Rigoberta
\nMenchu, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize 2002\n<\/td>\n		Introduction and welcome\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3:30 pm\n<\/td>\nColette Grinevald, Lyon-2
\nUniversity\n<\/td>\n		How to think about linguistic
\ndiversity: what it is and why should we preserve it\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4pm\n<\/td>\nPeter K. Austin, SOAS\n<\/td>\nHow linguists and communities
\nare working together to document and support endangered languages\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4:30pm\n<\/td>\nPatrick Mougiamao Daoudan, Omar
\nBongon University, Gabon\n<\/td>\n		The languages of Gabon and
\nbiodiversity: 700 catalogued names of animals\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5pm\n<\/td>\nJuliana Sis Iboyn, Director of
\nOKMA (Centre for documentation of Guatemala Mayan languages)\n<\/td>\n		The languages of Guatemala: when
\nthe Maya put in place the process of revitalisation\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5:30pm\n<\/td>\nHannah Bogiri, University of South Pacific, Vanuatu\n<\/td>\nVanuatu, a small country with the highest linguistic density in the world: the politics of preservation\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6pm\n<\/td>\nJacques Chirac, former President of France\n<\/td>\nClosing remarks\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The event is free and open to all. It will be a great opportunity to highlight linguistic diversity issues and the high profile of the non-linguists attending is likely to attract attention and participation well beyond the usual academic audience<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The recently established Fondation Chirac in collaboration with the Mus\u00e9e du quai Branly and Unesco is organising a one-day public event to be held on Monday 9th June in Paris called “SOROSORO pour que vivent les langues du monde!” (SOROSORO long live the languages of the world! ). Sorosoro in the Araki language of Vanuatu … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news","category-linguistics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4530,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3688\/revisions\/4530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}