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Colloquium

Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Languages, Cultures, and History of Contemporary Amazonia

December 13, 2024

UC Berkeley (USA)

Programme

10:00AM Emanuele Fabiano (U. of Coimbra), Joshua Homan (U. of Kansas) & Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley), "New Perspectives on Omurano (isolate; Peru) Based on Archival Records and Oral Histories"
10:45AM Zachary O'Hagan (Berkeley), "A Close Reading of Elicitation with a 99-year-old Speaker of Chamikuro (Arawakan; Peru)"
11:30AM Stephanie Farmer, "Reflections on the Documentation of Muniche (isolate; Peru) Fifteen Years Later"
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1:30PM Lev Michael (Berkeley), "Linguistic Phylogeny and the Arawakan Settlement of the Greater Ucayali Basin"
2:15PM Karen Shiratori (U. of Coimbra), "The Song of Atxu: The Right to Memory and the Recovery of the Language of a Hi-Merimã Survivor"
3:00PM Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen (U. of Helsinki), "Apurinã Language Vitality and Deforestation on the Purús River"
3:45PM Laura R. Graham (U. of Iowa), "A’uwẽ (Xavante) Mrémé in the Brazilian Linguistic Landscape"


Coorganisers: project ECO and UC Berkeley.