Dr. Ross Perlin's talk

Book Talk: Language City: Dr. Perlin’s Insights on Preserving Endangered Mother Tongues

March 20, 2025, 12:30 pm to 1:30 pm

302 Dodson Room, Irving K Barber, University of British Columbia

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Join us at Dodson 302, Irving K. Barber, UBC Point Grey on Thursday, March 20th from 12:30pm - 1:30pm for the upcoming Language Science Book Talk featuring Dr. Ross Perlin, a linguist, writer, and translator focused on exploring and supporting linguistic diversity. In his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, he focuses on six endangered languages in New York and the immigration stories that have made them what they are. 

This talk is hybrid; Zoom details and venue address are below. 

Location: 

302 Dodson Room, Irving K Barber
University of British Columbia
Point Grey, V6T 1Z1

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Please use the Zoom details below to attend virtually:

Link: https://ubc.zoom.us/j/69757429543?pwd=g7oRW4L6ZHxvde7avPVCRfbFaaDqyC.1
Meeting ID: 697 5742 9543
Passcode: 664501

Title: Book Talk: Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York 

Abstract: 

From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet. 

 


 


First Nations land acknowledegement

We acknowledge that UBC’s campuses are situated within the traditional territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh, and in the traditional, ancestral, unceded territory of the Syilx Okanagan Nation and their peoples.


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