WORKSHOPS & CONFERENCES 15TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON AUSTRONESIAN LINGUISTICS – ICAL-15 Date & Time 28. 6. – 1. 7. 2021 Location ONLINE CONFERENCE VIA WHOVA Registration here. Abstract The Austronesian languages are a family of languages widely dispersed throughout the islands of Southeast Asia and the Pacific, with a few members spoken on continental Asia. Malagasy is a geographic outlier, which is spoken on Madagascar. Austronesian has ten primary subgroups, nine of them found in Taiwan (the Formosan…

WORKSHOP Land Use in the Russian Eastern Borderlands Date May 20, 2021 | 9:00 AM CET Location Zoom – https://cesnet.zoom.us/j/92185009682 Abstract Social scholars are increasingly using remote sensing methods in their research. However, quantitative tradition and methodological foundations of remote sensing seem to contradict the paradigm of ethnographic immersion to which anthropologists who study changes in cultural landscapes are committed. Our seminar will bring together representatives of different disciplines to discuss how a mixture of…