Janet Watson has been awarded a British Council International Heritage Protection and Sustainable Development grant, which will fund a Yemeni ECR scholar to come to Leeds for nine months and work on the rich traditional ecopoetics of the endangered Modern South Arabian language, Mehri, as spoken in al-Mahrah in Yemen. The fellow will be supervised…
The online Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia series hosted PGR students from Oman, Yemen and Saudi Arabia on 9th February 2021. The following speakers presented: Kamela al-Barami (University of Leeds) – Fieldwork in Oman during the Covid-19 pandemic: challenges and opportunities Mohammed al-Shahri (Heidelberg University) – اللغة الشحرية: كلمة واحدة لها عدة معاني Thamer…
The first workshop after the summer break will take place on 1st September at 1pm BST, and will focus on Toponymy. The programme is given below: Language and/or Nature in Southern Arabia Becki Maddock (Permanent Committee on Geographical Names (PCGN)): Place names in Soqotra Mark Shockley (North Dakota): Diminutive noun patterns in Arabian toponyms…
Janet Watson held a series of online workshops on Language and Nature in Southern Arabia through Zoom. The first workshop ran on 23rd March 2020 from 1pm-4pm, the second on 31st March from 12pm-3pm, third on 7th April from 2pm GMT, the fourth on 14th April from 12pm GMT, and the fifth on 21st April…
This workshop took place on 24-26 April 2019 at the University of Leeds. The symbiotic relationship between language and nature in southern and eastern Arabia
Some of Language@Leeds’ activity was represented at the Festival of Interdisciplinary Research, under the Culture Theme. Taking place on 3 May 2018, the festival provided the opportunity to meet people from the University’s Themes and Platforms, which drive and support the development of interdisciplinary research. It showcased examples of how our researchers work across the…
We are delighted to announce that our proposal to host a Sadler Seminar Series on Biolinguistic Diversity across the Continents has been approved. The seminar series will run through the academic year 2017 – 2018, with a launch event for all the Sadler Seminar Series scheduled for late September or early October. The seminar series…
