• Date: Tuesday, March 26, 2019
  　13:00 - 15:45：Symposium
  　15:45 - 16:30：Refreshments (everyone is invited)
• Venues:
  Faculty of Arts, Law and Education (FALE), The University of the South Pacific (USP)
  　Symposium [Room# H101 (019-101)]
  　Refreshments [FALE Faculty Meeting Room]
• Language: English
• Open to the public (no registration required / 30 sheets max.)
• Relevant Projects:
  A Joint International Collaborative Research (B) “Integrating Language Change in Time and Space: Applying Geographical Information System (GIS) and Statistic Modelling to Historical Linguistics” (2019–2023, PI: Kikusawa) funded by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research by the Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS), .
  
  International Collaborative Project “Linguistic History and Human Flow in Fiji Revealed through GIS Data” (April 2017-March 2019, PI: Kikusawa) funded by The Resona Foundation for Asia and Oceania.
  
  “Why Are Languages Spoken in the World All Different?”, (April 2016-March 2017, PI: Kikusawa), funded by a crowdfunding scheme through Academist.
• E-mail: ritsuko●minpaku.ac.jp (please replace ● with @)

About This Symposium

This symposium is organized as a venue for presenting research results of on-going projects where research on Fijian languages and culture are conducted and a Fijian language GIS system is developed. The Fijian language GIS project has been funded by several funding agencies and gradually extended to be interdisciplinary, involving linguistics, geography (particularly GIS), cultural anthropology and statistic mathematics. With this symposium open to both local researchers and interested public, this will be an opportunity for the members of the project to communicate with local participants, exchange ideas, both about the scientific development of the project and also about research dissemination targeting local communities. Satellite workshops will be held before and after the symposium exclusively with project members, to further discuss technical matters related to the project.

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