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Third Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia 
Setting boundaries: how to (re-)draw the lines defining endangered languages

May 6th-8th, 2024

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is pleased to announce the third meeting of the Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA). The aim of CELEA is to gather at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice scholars, researchers, and other academics who work on endangered, indigenous, or minority languages spoken in the territories of East Asia. With this conference, the University wants to broaden its perspective on the linguistic diversity of the East Asian countries whose main languages are being taught in its Department of Asian and North African Studies. Thus the University hopes to raise an interest towards the less-known languages of Asia and foster active investigation on them, while giving researchers from all over the world the opportunity to meet and share their knowledge.

The conference focuses primarily on the endangered, indigenous, and minority languages of Japan, China, Korea, the Russian Far East, Mongolia, and Taiwan so priority will be given to contributions that discuss languages spoken in these countries. However, contributions dealing with languages spoken elsewhere in Asia will also be more than welcomed. Please note that contributions addressing any aspect of the official or main languages spoken in these territories (e.g. Japanese, Chinese, Korean, etc.) fall out of the scope of the conference and will not be considered. We specifically encourage PhD students and young researchers to present their work at the conference

We are planning CELEA3 as a hybrid event that participants will be able to attend either in person or remotely. 

For detailed information please check the website.