Ep 14: Fieldwork in the Time of COVID-19 with Guillem Belmar

Today's episode is Guillem Belmar, a Linguistics PhD student at UC Santa Barbara. In this episode, we discuss the impact of the COVID-19 crisis on fieldwork. This discussion was inspired by UCSB grad students who have started a group to share and debate online fieldwork, and this post on social media from Guillem, which urged fieldworkers to pause field trip plans in light of the pandemic.

Things mentioned in this episode:

• Mixtec language family
• Coronavirus ‘could wipe out Brazil’s indigenous people’ (BBC)
• COVID-19 RESOURCES IN INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES FROM SOUTHERN MEXICO
• COVID-19 info by language (Endangered Languages Project)
• Language Archives: ELAR, AILLA, PARADISEC
• Harvesting an archival deposit for your linguistics dissertation (ELAR blog post by Jonas Lau)
• To learn more about how virtual communities can operate as breathing spaces online for minority languages, reach out to Guillem on Twitter @GuillemBelmar or by email: gbelmarviernes@ucsb.edu

Other things:

• Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic (crowdsourced Google Doc)
• Crowdsourced Suggestions for Online Field Methods Classes (Google Doc)

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