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From http://caas-cw.org/wp/

2019 Fall Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States
October 10-12
Silver Spring, Maryland

Learn more and register at http://caas-cw.org/wp/

From https://aicls.org/language-is-life-2019/

Language Is Life 2019
October 11-13
Wonder Valley Ranch, Sanger, California
Theme: Fixing the Earth in the Year of Indigenous Languages

The year 2019 has been declared by the United Nations as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. The Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival has been honored to represent our little part of the world in this global effort to raise awareness to political leaders and encourage discussion on helping endangered indigenous languages to survive the onslaught of language domination. AICLS has been fighting this good fight for 30 years and more–and we hope to continue for years to come!

Learn more and register at https://aicls.org/language-is-life-2019/

From http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/

Our sister LRC, the Center for Open Educational Resources and Language Learning, has created a series of modules focusing on twelve different aspects of language teaching, each taught by a different expert instructor. The site contains video footage from an actual methods course held at the University of Texas at Austin. This flexible resource is designed to be used by foreign language teachers as a component of a classroom methods course or as a stand-alone course for independent learners.

Access the modules at http://coerll.utexas.edu/methods/

This Friday is the International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples. Learn more about this day on the United Nations website: https://www.un.org/en/events/indigenousday/

Larry Ferlazzo has compiled an annotated collection of links to relevant resources at http://larryferlazzo.edublogs.org/2010/08/02/the-best-sites-for-international-day-of-the-worlds-indigenous-people/

From https://www.talkinarabic.com

Our August InterCom theme is Language in the Wild. This article from Talk in Arabic exemplifies the sort of guidance that can help people learning a language "in the wild": https://www.talkinarabic.com/practice-arabic-in-egypt/

From https://associatedjapan2019.jpf.go.jp/associate-prg-list.php

The Associated Program consists of Japan-related events organized or co-organized by the Japanese national and local governments, public, and private entities. You can browse upcoming events in the United States at https://associatedjapan2019.jpf.go.jp/associate-prg-list.php

If you're interested in learning Bjargni, the language of the Faroe Islands, here is a series of six interactive lessons online: https://faroeseonline.com/

Read a recent review of this resource from an FLTEACH user at https://listserv.buffalo.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind1907&L=FLTEACH&P=R1373

Last year we highlighted the Papyrus Stories website (https://caslsintercom.uoregon.edu/content/25136), which features blog posts about life in the ancient world based on texts and artifacts. 

A project aiming to increase the number of such texts available for analysis and use is the Ancient Lives project, which launched in 2011 and engages volunteers in transcribing papyrus fragments. Learn more about this project and how you can be involved at https://www.ancientlives.org/#/