News from EWA networks

2020

In March we released a podcast in the Creative Multilingualism series. Check it out: Understanding Our Natural World

Felice put out this article in The Conversation: How Birds Are Used to Reveal the Future

2019

In August, Andy published this article on folk names for birds in British Wildlife.

EWA co-sponsored and organised (led by Dr Karen Park) this symposium at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, September 6th and 7th to explore Intersections of Language and Nature: Conservation, Documentation, and Access. [click the link for recordings of the event]

The two-day symposium brought together scholars from indigenous communities, conservation practice, and academia to address the parallel threats facing linguistic and biological diversity and explore opportunities for collaboration.

 

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First EWA Development Team funded by UK's Arts and Humanities Research Council meet in University of Oxford's Department of Zoology (Tinbergen Building).  In photo, Left to Right: Heidi Fletcher (EWA Web-manager/Developer); Karen Park (EWA Linguist); Ada Grabowska-Zhang (EWA Ornithologist); John Fanshawe (EWA & BirdLife Intenational); Andy Gosler (EWA Research Director); Felice Wyndham (EWA Anthropologist/Ethnobiologist).

 

 

2014

Members of EWA Secretariat attended the International Society of Ethnobiology Congress in  Bumthang, Bhutan. (F. Wyndham, J. Fanshawe, K. Park)