BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Lewis & Clark//NONSGML v1.0//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20140309T100000 RDATE:20140309T100000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20141102T090000 RDATE:20141102T090000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140320T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140320T163000 LOCATION:Miller Hall GEO:45.450858;-122.668265 SUMMARY:Tibet's Linguistic Minorities in the Twenty-first Century: Surviv al or Assimilation DESCRIPTION:Tibet's population is diverse in complex and multifaceted way s. This presentation will focus on one aspect of this diversity - that of language - but will also explore the social\, historical\, and political conditions in which this diversity exists\, and the new contexts that ar e now threatening this diversity. At present\, the Tibetan Plateau is hom e to about thirty-five non-Tibetan languages that are spoken nowhere else in the world. The first years of the twenty-first century\, however\, ha ve seen the appearance of multiple pressures on these languages\, and it is currently unclear which\, if any\, of Tibet's non-Tibetan languages wi ll survive into the next century. This presentation will explore the comp lex and sometimes unexpected contemporary social and political factors th at are now impacting these languages. In order to better understand the c hanges currently taking place\, I will also look into Tibet's history to examine the extent to which the present moment represents a rupture from\ , or continuity with\, prior historical trends. In taking this broad view of Tibet's minority populations\, informed by an understanding of the re gion's history\, as well as contemporary society and politics\, we can pe er into the future\, and perhaps learn what awaits these languages - surv ival or assimilation? X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Tibet's population is diverse in comple x and multifaceted ways. This presentation will focus on one aspect of th is diversity - that of language - but will also explore the social\, hist orical\, and political conditions in which this diversity exists\, and th e new contexts that are now threatening this diversity. At present\, the Tibetan Plateau is home to about thirty-five non-Tibetan languages that a re spoken nowhere else in the world. The first years of the twenty-first century\, however\, have seen the appearance of multiple pressures on the se languages\, and it is currently unclear which\, if any\, of Tibet's no n-Tibetan languages will survive into the next century. This presentation will explore the complex and sometimes unexpected contemporary social an d political factors that are now impacting these languages. In order to b etter understand the changes currently taking place\, I will also look in to Tibet's history to examine the extent to which the present moment repr esents a rupture from\, or continuity with\, prior historical trends. In taking this broad view of Tibet's minority populations\, informed by an u nderstanding of the region's history\, as well as contemporary society an d politics\, we can peer into the future\, and perhaps learn what awaits these languages - survival or assimilation?
UID:20140320T223000Z-25324@college.lclark.edu DTSTAMP:20140306T113147Z URL:https://college.lclark.edu/live/events/25324-tibets-linguistic-minori ties-in-the-twenty-first CATEGORIES:Open to the Public LAST-MODIFIED:20140318T205619Z ATTACH:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/66/width/80/height/80/cr op/1/44345_screen_shot_2014-03-06_at_112740_am.rev.1394134295.jpg X-LIVEWHALE-TYPE:events X-LIVEWHALE-ID:25324 X-LIVEWHALE-TIMEZONE:America/Los_Angeles X-LIVEWHALE-IMAGE:https://college.lclark.edu/live/image/gid/66/width/80/h eight/80/crop/1/44345_screen_shot_2014-03-06_at_112740_am.rev.1394134295. jpg X-LIVEWHALE-SUMMARY:Gerald Roche\, Post Doctoral Research Fellow at Uppsa la University will be presenting a talk about his research on language di versity in Tibet. X-LIVEWHALE-TAGS:interdisciplinary|international affairs|multicultural|op en to the public|send-to-graduate|send-to-undergraduate END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR