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Steering committee

ILARA was conceived and is built by a steering committee consisting of:

Alessia Bauer

EPHE-PSL, HISTARA,
Scandinavian studies

Muriel Debié

EPHE-PSL, Orient & Méditerranée,
Eastern Christianity

Philip Huyse

EPHE-PSL, CerMI,
Languages of Ancient Iran

Amina Mettouchi

EPHE-PSL, LLACAN,
Berber languages
Head of “ILARA Online”

Alfonsina Bellio

EPHE-PSL, GSRL,
Vice President for Education and Student Life,
Religious ethnology of the contemporary West

Alexis Michaud

CNRS, LACITO,
East Asian languages

Andreas Stauder

EPHE-PSL, AOROC,
Ancient Egyptian

Mark Van de Velde

CNRS, LLACAN,
Bantu languages

Guillaume Jacques

EPHE-PSL, CRLAO,
Sino-Tibetan languages
Interim Director

Its director is appointed for a term of four years, renewable twice.

ILARA, the Institute for Linguistic Heritage and Diversity, is a centre for training in, expertise on and resources relating to languages that are rarely studied in a university setting. It offers flexible and innovative courses for such languages, which have either been seldom described or taught in past scholarship, or are now in danger of extinction (some are already extinct), or both. The Institute thus builds a bridge between the study of ancient languages (documented only in writing), and of those languages which possess an extant oral tradition (the documentation of these latter thus includes an audio-visual dimension).

Steering committee

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The evolution of linguistic diversity

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