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Call For Applications: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme Grant Round 2024 Now Open

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) provides grants for the documentation of endangered languages globally. ELDP especially welcomes applications from documenters from language communities, local scholars and students from the country where the language is spoken, as well as collaborative and interdisciplinary projects. There are no restrictions on nationality or host institution, language documenters of any nationality to undertake projects in any part of the world with our funding.

Watch: 'The endangered languages that are fighting back'

Many of the world’s 7,000 languages are under threat. But some are experiencing a revival – here’s why.

Would you like to join the Culture in Crisis Team?

We are currently recruiting for a 1 Year Fixed-Term position as the V&A's Cultural Heritage Preservation Lead.

Craft skills under threat with 17 additions to the Red List of Endangered Crafts

New research by Heritage Crafts has unearthed more traditional craft skills on the verge of extinction in the UK, in the latest major update of its pioneering project, the Red List of Endangered Crafts.

Event Recording Now Available - Culture in Crisis: Spotlight on Sudan

In this online event, hear from Sudanese heritage specialists, as well as those working to support them, to understand more about the impacts of the conflict taking place.

Event announcement: Sudan Crisis: Saving Memory, Preserving Futures

On 30 May, partners from Sudan Memory and the Hussein Shariffe project join with journalists, writers, activists, cultural and NGO practitioners, and political commentators, to explore in a public panel and open forum how our own and similar projects can sustain experiences and memories of shared cultures, and provide platforms from which to contest ongoing violence. The event begins with presentations from Sudan Memory and the Hussein Shariffe project, alongside a short film from the Sudanese Women’s Museum in Darfur. A round table with invited panellists is followed by open discussion. All participants are warmly invited to join us for a reception with light refreshments after the event.

• Venue: Bush House Lecture Theatre 1, Floor 1 Bush House, King’s College London London WC2 4BG
• Date: 30/05/23
• Time: 5:30pm–8:00pm

Upcoming Online Event - Culture in Crisis: Spotlight on Sudan

Bringing together voices from different disciplines within the Sudanese heritage sector, we will hear about the current threats posed to cultural heritage, as well as the emerging initiatives such as the Sudan Heritage Protection Initiative which are designed promote, protect, and preserve it.

• Venue: Online
• Date: 25/05/23
• Time: 2:00pm–3:00pm

Culture in Crisis Event Announcement: Architecture Responds

This in-person Culture in Crisis event, hosted at the V&A South Kensington, programmed in collaboration with London Festival of Architecture, will explore different case studies and approaches to the (re)construction of architecture, within post-crisis environments.

• Venue: Hochhauser Auditorium - Victoria and Albert Museum
• Date: 06/06/23
• Time: 2:00pm–3:30pm

Damage and Risk Assessment: Report to promote risk-informed cultural heritage first aid actions in Ukraine

Speakers Announced: "Collaboration in Times of Crisis: Preserving Natural and Cultural Heritage"

From 26 to 28 April 2023, the international conference "Collaboration In Times Of Crisis: Preserving Natural And Cultural Heritage" will be held at the Georgian National Museum in Tbilisi, Georgia. The conference is prepared by the Georgian National Museum in collaboration with the V&A's Culture in Crisis Programme, the Centre for Study and Promotion of Natural and Cultural Heritage of Georgia, and the Rathgen Research Laboratory of the National Museums in Berlin – Prussian Cultural Heritage.

• Venue: The Georgian National Museum
• Dates: 26/04/23–28/04/23