Invited Lectures, Seminars & Workshops

Lecture: How to find minimal pairs? (田野記音作業講解：如何尋找最小對立)

• Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
• 18:00-18:40, 18 September, 2019. Room 103, Chinese Building (Bowen Building), Guangxi University of Nationalities, Nanning, Guangxi, China
• Language: Mandarin, 40 minutes.

Semiar: Ngyam Sley and Yang Zhuang’s Language Normalization in Literature and Art Creation (德保縣文旅局開展‘吟詩’與文藝創作中的佒壯語文規範培訓講座)

• Invited by Bureau of Culture, Sports, Radio-Television and Tourism, Debao County, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China.
• 19:30-23:00 17 September, 2019. Meeting Room 804, Yinfa Building (Government Building), Chengguan Town, Debao County, Guangxi, China.

Languages: Mandarin and local Yang Zhuang, 3.5 hours in total.

Workshop: 2019 (Ande) A Workshop of Ceremony, Language and Film (2019（安德）儀式·語言·影像工作坊)

Topic: A Brief Discussion of Sound Data Collection in Field Research & Ritual Language data record (田野記音簡論&儀式語言記錄)

• Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
• The workshop was one of the core activities of the capstone course “2019 Social Practice Activity of the Zhuang Language Class”, the Chinese Minority Language and Literature Major, Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
• 9:00-12:00, 13 August, 2019. Ande Township Government Building, 4th floor, Meeting Room, Ande Town, Jingxi City, Guangxi, China.
• Language: Mandarin, 1 hour among the total 3 hours of the whole workshop.

Workshop: Understanding Yang Zhuang Language (學謱講佒อยากเหริ่วก๋างอย้าง เรียนรู้พูดอยาง)

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Topics: 1. Zhuang as a Macro-language; 2. Sound System of Yang Zhuang; 3. Yang Zhuang Grammar; 4. Yang Zhuang Conversation; 5. Old Yang Zhuang Script; 6. Yang Zhuang Poetry and Music. (3 hours each topic)

• Main Lecturer of the workshop (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, in Thai)
• Invited by Southeast Asian Linguistics Research Unit, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University and Page@SiamSienceLanguage (พันศาสตร์พันภาษา).
• 10, 12, 15 July, 2019. Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Building, 4th floor, Room 401/16, Faculty of Arts, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand.
• Languages: Thai (Topics 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 by me, 15 hours) and English (Topic 5 by guest lecturer Dr. Tai Chung Pui, 3 hours), 18 hours in total.

Semiar: Studies of Zhuang language and culture from an interdisciplinary and comparative perspective: Illustration from the studies of Zhuang character and Zhuang poetry (跨学科及比较视野下的壮学研究——以方块壮字及壮族诗歌的研究为例)

• Invited by Faculty of Arts, Guangxi University for Nationalities.
• 8:30-12:30, 19 April, 2019. Room 103, Chinese Building (Bowen Building), Guangxi University of Nationalities, Nanning, Guangxi, China
• Language: Mandarin, 4 hours in total (me 2 hours & Dr. Tai Chung Pui 2 hours).