When? Fall 2025: Every other Wednesday, 3:10PM-4:00PM (alternating with LRWG)
Where? Hybrid Format (in-person in Dwinelle 1303 and via Zoom; email organizers for passcode)
What? We are a working group dedicated to the critical examination of methodologies in language documentation, description, and revitalization, as well as to the linguistic and ethnohistorical analysis that falls out from that work. Our aim is to learn from and ultimately improve upon methods for carrying out more rigorous, insightful and ethical linguistic and cultural documentation, revitalization, and revival, as well as to help researchers implement those methods.
How? Fieldwork Forum is made possible through a Working Group Grant provided by the Townsend Center for the Humanities at the University of California, Berkeley.
Who? FForum is organized by Becky Everson (reverson@berkeley.edu) and Zachary Wellstood (wellstood@berkeley.edu). We welcome all those interested in linguistic fieldwork, with all levels of experience, including those in other departments. To join our mailing list, please write to the organizers.
See a list of our past talks here.
Upcoming Meetings
September 3, 2025: Round Robin
Join us for the first FForum meeting of the semester (and year!), where we will do a round robin to catch up on summer fieldwork developments. All are welcome!
September 17, 2025: Becky Jarvis & Katie Russell (UC Berkeley)
Developing community-facing story corpus web resources
In this talk, we will present our work on (two versions of) the Atchan Song and Story Corpus (version 1 live here, and version 2 beta visible here). We’ll discuss background on the project, some technical details of how adding content to the website works, and some currently in-progress work on making it easier to develop similar websites. We welcome discussion throughout this presentation and encourage department members who have worked on or are interested in similar projects to attend.