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

November 26, 2024

A workshop on Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Languages, Cultures, and History of Contemporary Amazonia will be held at Berkeley on December 13, in 1229 Dwinelle Hall, with several talks by current and former Berkeley linguists:

    • 10:00AM Emanuele Fabiano (Coimbra), Joshua Homan (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"
    • 1:30PM Lev Michael (Berkeley), "Linguistic Phylogeny and the Arawakan Settlement of the Greater Ucayali Basin"
    • 2:15PM Karen Shiratori (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 (Helsinki), "Apurinã Language Vitality and Deforestation on the Purús River"
    • 3:45PM Laura R. Graham (Iowa), "A’uwẽ (Xavante) Mrémé in the Brazilian Linguistic Landscape"