Program

Day 1 - 17 February

8.30 a.m. – 09.00 a.m.

Welcome & coffee

Asako Shiohara and Antoinette Schapper

09.00 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.

Keynote: Are there languages in Papua New Guinea?

Don Kulick, Uppsala University

10.15 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Language documentation, description and capacity building in West Papua. Or the future belongs to the youth

Sonja Riesberg, LACITO-CNRS/Universität zu Köln; Yusuf Sawaki, Universitas Papua/CELD

11.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.

Papuan languages and PARADISEC

Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne

Lunch 11.45 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.

1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

Transforming legacy text materials into modern linguistic description: The work of Dutch missionary and linguist, Petrus Drabbe

Wilco van Heuvel, VU Amsterdam

2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.

The Mee textbook publishing project

Yuta Sakon, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies & Nawipa Dance

Break 3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.

3.15 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Documenting oral narratives: from transcript to edited text

Katherine Walker, University of Amsterdam/Universität zu Köln

4.00 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.

Development of a narrative archive for eastern Indonesian languages

Asako Shiohara & Yanti, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Reception to follow end of day 1 talks

Day 2 - 18 February

Coffee

9.30 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.

The sound of persons, demons and places. Misunderstood metalanguage and the future of linguistic research in the Awyu lands of West Papua and beyond

Lourens de Vries, VU Amsterdam

10.15 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Sing! Don’t laugh! Onnele hopes for revitalising language, culture, and community

Benjamin Pehrson, Leiden University/SIL-PNG

11.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.

Recent developments in the socio-linguistic situation of the Dom language community

Shuntaro Tida, Kyoto University

Lunch Break 11.45 a.m. – 1.30 p.m.

1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

Language Situation in South Bougainville, Papua New Guinea

Masayuki Onishi, Doshisha University & Kazuya Inagaki, Nanzan University

2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.

Archiving materials of the languages of South Bougainville Family

Masayuki Onishi, Doshisha University

Break 3.00 p.m. – 3.15 p.m.

3.15 p.m. – 4.00 p.m.

Aiku language documentation and language database development

Kyosuke Yamamoto, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

4.00 p.m. – 4.45 p.m.

The threat of extinction of the Kui language on Alor Island, East Nusa Tenggara Indonesia

Katubi, BRIN-Indonesia & Asako Shiohara, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies

Day 3 - 19 February

9.30 a.m. – 10.15 a.m.

Bridging the Language Digital Divide through Digital and Remote Field Linguistics

Luís de Passos Morgado da Costa, VU Amsterdam

10.15 a.m. – 11.00 a.m.

Endurance and Adaptation: The Resilience of the Woirata Language in a Changing World

Nazarudin, Leiden University/Universitas Indonesia

11.00 a.m. – 11.45 a.m.

The present and future of language documentation and description of Papuan Languages of North Halmahera: cases from Pagu, West Makian and Modole

Dalan M. Perangin-Angin, Sanata Dharma University

Lunch Break 11.45 a.m.–1.30 p.m.

1.30 p.m. – 2.15 p.m.

Language shift driving language diversification in Yawa

Anne van Schie, VU Amsterdam

2.15 p.m. – 3.00 p.m.

The end of Melanesian stable multilingualism and its consequences for Papuan grammaticology

Antoinette Schapper, VU Amsterdam

3 p.m. – 3.45 p.m.

Closing discussion

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