Revitalizing Indigenous Language Cultures in the Diaspora

Revitalizing Indigenous Language Cultures in the Diaspora - ISDG Panel Michaelmas 2025

GR05, Faculty of English, Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge

17:00 GMT Thursday November 27th

Please join us for the panel titled "Revitalising Indigenous Language Cultures in the Diaspora". It aims at exploring efforts to preserve and celebrate Indigenous languages and cultures in the diasporic setting by bridging conversations between UK-based Indigenous language course leaders from different parts of the world. The panel will explore different approaches and methods for Indigenous language revitalisation, the relations of language and cultural identity for the diasporas, and language culture as a form of resistance and means of healing towards decolonisation. This event is co-hosted by the University of Cambridge Indigenous Studies Discussion Group (ISDG) and the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC).

Speakers:

Jose Miranda, Director of Comunidad Rimanakuy

Drukthar Gyal, Founder & Director of the Tibetan Wisdom Initiative

Dr Oliver Mayeux, Affiliated Lecturer at the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages and Linguistics and Convenor of the Cambridge Endangered Languages and Cultures Group (CELC), University of Cambridge

Moderator:

Dr Oliver Mayeux

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