{"id":5766,"date":"2011-06-30T00:56:21","date_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/?p=5766"},"modified":"2011-06-30T00:57:51","modified_gmt":"2011-06-29T13:57:51","slug":"gresham-college-webcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/gresham-college-webcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Gresham College webcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/About-Gresham-College-Gresham-College.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/About-Gresham-College-Gresham-College-300x40.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"About Gresham College   Gresham College\" width=\"300\" height=\"40\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5774\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/About-Gresham-College-Gresham-College-300x40.png 300w, https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/About-Gresham-College-Gresham-College.png 1002w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On 16th June, Nick Ostler, Mark Turin and I participated in a packed symposium at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/\">Gresham College<\/a> in London (founded in 1597 and the capital&#8217;s oldest Higher Education Institution &#8212; read about its fascinating history <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/about-us\/about-gresham-college\">here<\/a>). <\/p>\n<p>The Symposium was entitled <b>Rare and Endangered Languages<\/b>, and the topics of our talks were as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Nick Ostler &#8220;Why should we protect endangered languages?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mark Turin &#8220;Collect, Protect, Connect: Documenting the Voices of Vanishing Worlds&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Peter Austin &#8220;Language documentation and revitalisation: where are we now?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Gresham College regulars Tim Connell and Michael Mainelli (who bears the enviable title &#8220;Emeritus Mercers&#8217; School Memorial Professor of Commerce&#8221;) also took part &#8212; Tim introduced the Symposium and Michael chaired a round table discussion at the end. Video and audio recordings of all the talks, plus transcripts and Powerpoint slide decks can be accessed and\/or downloaded from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gresham.ac.uk\/lectures-and-events\/symposium-rare-and-endangered-languages\">Symposium website<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On 16th June, Nick Ostler, Mark Turin and I participated in a packed symposium at Gresham College in London (founded in 1597 and the capital&#8217;s oldest Higher Education Institution &#8212; read about its fascinating history here). The Symposium was entitled Rare and Endangered Languages, and the topics of our talks were as follows: Nick Ostler &#8230; <a title=\"Gresham College webcasts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/2011\/06\/gresham-college-webcasts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Gresham College webcasts\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[33,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-endangered-languages","category-public-events"],"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\/5766","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=5766"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5780,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5766\/revisions\/5780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paradisec.org.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}