{"id":3801,"date":"2009-05-13T20:32:09","date_gmt":"2009-05-13T20:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/endangered-languages-and-finances\/"},"modified":"2011-02-05T07:49:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-05T07:49:18","slug":"endangered-languages-and-finances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/endangered-languages-and-finances\/","title":{"rendered":"Endangered languages and finances"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The financial difficulties currently facing the world&#8217;s economies are having an impact on funding and support for research on endangered languages in various ways. (I heard the current situation referred to in Australia last month as <i>The GFC<\/i> (&#8220;Global Financial Crisis&#8221;), an acronym that I initially confused with <i>The BFG<\/i> (as a Roald Dahl fan) and that doesn&#8217;t seem to have much purchase outside Australia &#8212; even <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Global_financial_crisis_of_2008-2009\">Wikipedia<\/a> is taking the <i>G<\/i> out of <i>GFC<\/i>.)<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the signs:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondationchirac.eu\/programmes-sorosoro\/\">Sorosoro Programme<\/a> of Fondation Chirac has postponed its planned annual events at the Mus\u00e9e du Quai Branly from early June to the end of 2009, or possibly even later (videos of last June&#8217;s events are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fondationchirac.eu\/videos-rencontres-sorosoro-9-juin-2008\/\">here<\/a>) \n<li>the planned <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vigdis.hi.is\/page\/svf_worldlanguagecenter\">World Language Centre<\/a> initiative of the Vigdis Finnboggadottir Institute in Iceland is being scaled back and no new international activities are now planned until early 2010\n<li>the laying of the foundation stone for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguamon.cat\/\">LINGUAM\u00d3N &#8211; Casa de les Lleng\u00ebs<\/a> that had been scheduled for last year will now take place in November this year with the building planned to be open in 2011 (Linguam\u00f3n continues to be active and an electronic newsletter is now available in <a href=\"http:\/\/www15.gencat.net\/pres_casa_llengues\/AppJava\/frontend\/newsletter\/newsletter_2_1.html\">Catalan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www15.gencat.net\/pres_casa_llengues\/AppJava\/frontend\/newsletter\/newsletter_2_6.html\">Spanish<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www15.gencat.net\/pres_casa_llengues\/AppJava\/frontend\/newsletter\/newsletter_2_5.html\">English<\/a>)\n<li>the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpi.nl\/DOBES\/volkswagen_foundation\/\">DoBeS programme<\/a> of the Volkswagen Stiftung will not have a funding application round in 2009 &#8212; the next application deadline will be in September 2010 with funds available from  2011\n<\/ul>\n<p>Things look a bit gloomy for the next year or so, however there is some good news. The grants from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrelp.org\/grants\/\">Endangered Languages Documentation Programme<\/a> that is administered by SOAS have not been affected as the funding base was established by a commitment from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arcadiafund.org.uk\/content\/splash.asp\">Arcadia<\/a> (formerly the Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund) back in 2002. In fact, under new arrangements recently negotiated with Arcadia, ELDP&#8217;s budget end date has now been extended until 2016, some four years later than originally anticipated. There are two grant cycles this year:  the second cycle of grant applications opens on Friday 15 May, with a closing date of 3rd August (see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hrelp.org\/grants\/apply\/index.html\">here<\/a> for details).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The financial difficulties currently facing the world&#8217;s economies are having an impact on funding and support for research on endangered languages in various ways. (I heard the current situation referred to in Australia last month as The GFC (&#8220;Global Financial Crisis&#8221;), an acronym that I initially confused with The BFG (as a Roald Dahl fan) &#8230; <a title=\"Endangered languages and finances\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2009\/05\/endangered-languages-and-finances\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Endangered languages and finances\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"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\/3801","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=3801"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4496,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3801\/revisions\/4496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}