The CALA

23/03/2021

🛑Remember that the CALA page has moved. 🛑
The CALA and other pages have now been consolidated until the SOAS GLOCAL FB page, at https://www.facebook.com/GLOCALSOAS/. Please follow The GLOCAL at The GLOCAL page, and receive all news and information for upcoming events, publications, and media.

College & university

12/03/2021

The CALA page has moved. The CALA and other pages have now been consolidated until the SOAS GLOCAL FB page, at https://www.facebook.com/GLOCALSOAS/. Please follow The GLOCAL at The GLOCAL page, and receive all news and information for upcoming events, publications, and media.

College & university

12/12/2020

Professor Jem Javier, Chair of The (SCOPUS / ISI) GLOCAL CALA 2021 Conference, speaks on The GLOCAL Conference on Asian Linguistic Anthropology 2021, September 1-4, 2021, University of the Philippines Diliman, Manila, The Philippines. Abstract submission link and all information: https://cala2021.upd.edu.ph/submit/

06/10/2020

The (SCOPUS / ISI) GLOCAL CALA 2020 Conference, February 5-8, 2020, The University Putra Malaysia, Bintulu, Malaysia.

21/07/2020

In Memory of Michael Silverstein

Michael Silverstein, renowned Linguistic Anthropologist, passed away several days ago, following a battle with cancer. Michael Silverstein revolutionized a progressive Linguistic Anthropology with his work on the semiotics of language and society, and on the understanding of language as penetrable by human intention and by societal complexity.

Michael Silverstein, was the Charles F. Grey Distinguished Service Professor of anthropology, linguistics, and psychology at the University of Chicago, after having studied at Harvard in his academically formative years. Silverstein was educated into a lineage central to 20th century academic thought, which included critical theory, anthropology, linguistics, and semiotics. Silverstein was affiliated with Roman Jakobson, and other current Linguists and Anthropologist who shaped our new and revolutionary understandings of the social sciences and the humanities. Silverstein was awarded the highly prestigious Franz Boas award for Exemplary Service to Anthropology by the American Anthropological Association.

His ubiquitous support of and warmth toward students and academics of all levels was unmatched, standing as a mentor and exemplary to all scholars both within his fields of work and outside. Synonymous with Linguistic Anthropology, Michael was well known for this reducing academic complexity to play, as he impressed upon others that complexity in thought can become simplicity, while similarly frequently engaging in verbal play when discussing language. His love of a variety of cultural influences was forever evident in his social discussions with people.

The academic world owes an unpayable debt to Michael Silverstein, one of a lineage of scholars whose contributions were central to the re-alignment of both academia and larger society vis-a-vis positivist thought.

13/06/2020

The (annual) CALA 2021 (SCOPUS / ISI indexed)
The CALA 2021 - The annual conference and workshops and lectures on the Linguistic Anthropology, The Sociolinguistics, and the Language and Society, of Asia.

Location - Department of Linguistics, University of The Philippines Diliman, Diliman, The Philippines
Date - September 1-4,2021
Theme - Symbol and New Society: The CALA 2021 invites work on the linguistic symbolisms of Asian and global Asian society, in a new era. Submissions should acknowledge and describe the symbolic subjectivities of language and communication in this new era. Papers should focus on the ways in which symbolic communication has increasingly taken on both evolutionary and revolutionary form, following recent large-scale changes in Asian society, and in Asia’s interrelatedness with global spaces..

Keynote and Plenary Speakers - 1) Jack Sidnell (University of Toronto) 2) Mary Bucholtz (University of California)
Other globally prominent scholars in Linguistic Anthropology and Language and Society

Official Partners
- WCAA - CALA is a member of the World Council of Anthropological Associations
- SOAS (University of London), University College London, Ohio State University, University of Hawaii, Stockholm University, University of Kansas, California State University, Aichi University, Temple University, National Chengchi University, Beijing Normal University, University of Illinois, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Florida International University, Hofstra University, University of Indonesia, Nanyang University of Hong Kong, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Adelaide University, National Taiwan University

The CALA 2021 abstract submission /call for abstracts opens on June 1, 2020 and closes on January 1, 2021. Submit at the following link, with all information. https://cala2021.upd.edu.ph/submit Publications - Several Special (Top-Tier/Scopus/ISI/ACHI/SSCI)
PUBLICATIONS
- Conference proceedings (ISI / AHCI indexed). Several special Top Tier (Scopus/ISI /ACHI /SSCI) journal issues and monographs are planned with well ranked publications and publishers only, from papers submitted to The CALA 2021 that meet review requirements. Ample assistance is provided to revise papers.

Anthropological excursions
- Anthropological one day options to sites significant for Philippine language and society

LINKS
Website: https://cala2021.upd.edu.ph
Submission link: https://cala2021.upd.edu.ph/submit
Academia: https://independent.academia.edu/CALAAsia
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/the-cala
Facebook: https://facebook.com/thecala
GLOCAL Facebook:
GLOCAL / CALA App: https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/app

16/05/2020

Resources for academics who work on languages of Northern Eurasia

NorthEuraLex is a large-scale lexicostatistical database which is being compiled within the EVOLAEMP project. It is unique among databases for providing lexical data from more than twenty language families in a unified IPA encoding, which is generated automatically from the orthographies or standard transcriptions, and will continue to be improved in the future. It is intended to serve as a basis for creating new benchmarks in computational historical linguistics, with the purpose of improving computational models of language relationship and language contact.

The current release version 0.9 covers a list of 1,016 concepts across 107 languages of Northern Eurasia, with a focus on Uralic and Indo-European, but also including all the language families conveniently summarized as Altaic/Transeurasian and Paleosiberian, a selection of Caucasian languages, some major contact languages from adjacent families, as well as the most well-known isolates of Northern Eurasia.

http://northeuralex.org/

18/09/2019

http://www.arts.cuhk.edu.hk/~ant/pgforum/
CALL FOR PAPERS: Precarious Asia: Resilience, Resistance and Reconciliation (The 12th Annual CUHK Anthropology Postgraduate Student Forum, HK, Feb. 15-16). Abstract submission will be due October 25, 2019.

02/09/2019

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUXrVVD9qCE

Manchu is China's last imperial dynasty's language. UNESCO has declared it as 'çritically endangered'. Source: AFP