Canberra-based Langfest is offering nearly three weeks of events around language, languages and their relationship with the world, organized by the Applied Linguistics Association of Australia (ALAA), the Applied Linguistics Association of New Zealand (ALANZ) and the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS).

Here’s an endangered language-oriented selection among numerous other workshops and conferences scheduled along the festival:

- November 30 to December 2: a series of conferences themed Applied Linguistics as a Meeting Place, on “language and culture”, “language and education”, “language and indigenous issues”, “language and literacy”. December 1 and 2 are devoted to a focus on “language and the law”, addressing questions such as “intercultural communication and the law”, “the law and rights” (human rights, access to justice, etc.), or ” indigenous language(s) in legal contexts”.

- December 3: workshop on Gamilaaray, an Australian New South Wales Aboriginal language currently under process of revitalization. The workshop will be exploring possibilities for teaching.

- December 4 to 16: workshop on the study of tone languages in New Guinea held at the Australian National University. The aim here is to advance research by applying methods elaborated from investigating tone languages in Africa, Asia, and the Americas. Participants will learn how to describe and analyze a tone language by working with native speakers from West Papua (Indonesia) and Papua New Guinea.

Conferences and workshops take place at the University of Canberra (UC) and the Australian National University (ANU)

Access full program here.