Date(s): Thursday, January 24
Time: 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: : Gathering Place — CEP-A1457

President’s Leadership Lecture Series Presents:

Dr. Strang Burton | Revitalization of the Indigenous Languages

Thurs, Jan 24, 2019
5:00 pm, Gathering Place, Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park
Reception to follow

UFV President Dr. Joanne MacLean is pleased to welcome guest speaker Dr. Strang Burton to the Chilliwack campus at Canada Education Park as part of UFV’s President’s Leadership Lecture Series.

Dr. Burton is a lecturer in Linguistics at UBC and also works as an employee of the Stó:lō Nation language program, specializing in documentation and re-vitalization work for severely endangered languages. He has worked for many years with elders and community members to document the Upriver Halq’emeylem language, working for a community-run language revitalization program, the Stó:lō Shxweli Halq’emeylem Language program, at the Stó:lō Nation, in Chilliwack.

Dr. Burton will speak to the work being done in the revitalization of the indigenous languages and in particular the Halq’eméylem language. Dr. Burton’s work has been instrumental to the work of our Honorary Doctorate, Siyamiyateliyot Elizabeth Phillips.

Learn more at ufv.ca/plls