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Saving Endangered Languages
Start Date: 11/5/2014Start Time: 5:00 PM
End Date: 11/5/2014End Time: 7:00 PM

Event Description
K. David Harrison, PhD, of Swarthmore College, shows us how indigenous activists and linguists work to sustain some of the world’s endangered languages through technology and art.

 

The Judaic Studies Program of Drexel University presents “Saving Endangered Languages” a lecture and book-signing by K. David Harrison, PhD, associate professor of linguistics, Swarthmore College.
 
Half of the world’s languages are endangered and may go extinct in this century, with dire effects for civilization and our knowledge base. Come along and travel with Harrison, from Siberia to America’s Far West, as he shows us how indigenous activists and linguists work to sustain languages through technology and art. Harrison is the author of "The Last Speakers" and "When Languages Die."
 
The lecture will be followed by a panel on the Revitalization of Yiddish for Tomorrow. Discussing with Dr. Harrison how Yiddish activists might learn from some of the initiatives he has documented, will be the following panelists:

 
  • Barbara Hoekje, PhD, director, English Language Center; associate professor, communication; member, Judaic studies faculty committee
  • Adina Cimet, PhD, member, Judaic studies  advisory board; author, "Jewish Lublin"; director, YIVO Educational Program on Yiddish Culture
  • Rakhmiel Peltz, PhD, director, Judaic studies Program; professor of sociolinguistics
Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served. Books will be sold by the Penn Book Center. Support for this event comes from the Louis and Bessie Stein Foundation, The Milton and Miriam Handler Foundation, the Friends of Judaic Studies, and the English Language Center.

This program is a part of a Drexel University Global Classroom in which Peltz’s anthropology/Judaic studies course, Reconstructing History After Genocide, is convened in conjunction with cooperating scholars, students and institutions in Lublin, Poland.
Contact Information:
Name: Kathleen Carll
Phone: 215.895.6388
Harrison
Location:
Ruth Auditorium, Nesbitt Hall, Drexel University, 33rd and Market Streets, NE corner, Philadelphia, PA 19104
Audience:
  • Current Students
  • Public
  • Staff
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