{"id":4951,"date":"2018-11-07T14:55:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:55:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2018-11-07T14:55:25","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T21:55:25","slug":"language-sciences-talk-on-biocultural-diversity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/lfsgrads\/post-4951","title":{"rendered":"Language Sciences Talk on biocultural diversity"},"content":{"rendered":"

I\u2019m the Coordinator for the Language Sciences Initiative, writing to you on behalf of our steering committee.\u00a0 We wanted to bring to your attention a talk we have coming up on Tuesday, Nov. 20th<\/sup>\u00a0at 5:00pm in the C.K. Choi building (Room 120).\u00a0 We\u2019re very pleased to welcome Dr. Luisa Maffi, Co-founder and Director of\u00a0<\/span>Terralingua<\/a>, to give a talk on her work on preserving biocultural diversity.\u00a0 Luisa is in town to give a guest lecture in our university-wide undergraduate course\u00a0Living Language: Science and Society<\/i>.\u00a0 Because of the topic of the talk, and because Land & Food Systems is one of the faculties that cross-lists the course (we currently have a couple of LFS students enrolled) we wanted to reach out to you as an LFS faculty member and VPRI research cluster lead, in case you have colleagues and students who might be interested in the talk.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve just sent around a save-the-date with Luisa\u2019s biography (see text below my signature).\u00a0 If you think it\u2019s worth promoting in LFS or within your research cluster, please feel free to send it around, or to point me towards other folks you think might be interested!<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Warm regards,<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Ella\u00a0Fund-Reznicek<\/span><\/b>\u00a0\u00a0MA<\/span>
\nCoordinator
\nLanguage Sciences Initiative
\nThe University of British Columbia | Vancouver Campus | Musqueam Traditional Territory
\n4031 Audain Art Centre\u00a06398 University Boulevard\u00a0|\u00a0Vancouver BC\u00a0|\u00a0V6T 1Z4 Canada
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\nella.fr@ubc.ca<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0@UBCLangScis<\/a>
\nhttp:\/\/languagesciences.ubc.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

I\u2019m pleased to announce that we are welcoming Dr. Luisa Maffi, the Co-founder and Director of Terralingua, an international non-governmental organization that works to sustain the biocultural diversity of life, including language diversity, to give a Language Science Talk on\u00a0Tuesday, November 20th<\/sup>, from 5:00 \u2013 7:00pm in room 120 of the C.K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall)<\/b>.\u00a0 RSVP at\u00a0<\/span>https:\/\/bit.ly\/2yQIlDh<\/a>!\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The title and abstract for the talk are forthcoming, but for now, please read Dr. Maffi\u2019s biography, per the Terralingua website:<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Luisa Maffi, Ph.D. (UC Berkeley, 1994), is co-founder and Director of Terralingua, and spearheads Terralingua\u2019s program of work. Trained in linguistics, anthropology, and ethnobiology, Luisa is one of the pioneers of the concept of biocultural diversity. Her interest in the relationships between language, culture, and the environment, and between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity led her to co-found Terralingua in 1996, and to launch the organization\u2019s activities with the interdisciplinary conference \u201cEndangered Languages, Endangered Knowledge, Endangered Environments\u201d (Berkeley, California, U.S.A., 1996). <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

She was President of Terralingua from 1996 to 2006, and has been its Director since 2007. Since 2010 she has also been an Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Social and Applied Sciences at Royal Roads University, as well as an International Fellow of the Explorers Club. Luisa has conducted extended fieldwork in Somalia (1979-85) and Mexico (Chiapas, 1988-93; Chihuahua, 2000-2008), and has carried out research in China and Japan. She has written on a variety of topics ranging from Somali and Mayan linguistics to color categorization, ethnomedicine, traditional ecological knowledge, language maintenance and revitalization, indigenous peoples\u2019 linguistic and cultural rights, culture and conservation, and the relationships between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity. <\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

Among her key publications on biocultural diversity are the edited book On Biocultural Diversity: Linking Language, Knowledge, and the Environment (Smithsonian Institution Press, 2001), the coedited volume Ethnobotany and Conservation of Biocultural Diversity (New York Botanical Garden Press, 2004), and the co-authored book Biocultural Diversity Conservation: A Global Sourcebook (Earthscan, 2010).<\/span><\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Warm regards,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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