CHINESE ACADEMY OF SOCIAL SCIENCES AND UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE JOINT WORKSHOP ON LANGUAGE MAINTENANCE November 25, 2017, Beijing (China)

As part of the 50^(th) Annual International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages and Linguistics, the University of Melbourne and Chinese Academy of Social Sciences held a joint workshop aimed at sharing ideas and methodologies in modern language maintenance. This paper describes the presentations given during the workshop and outlines the underlying themes of the event, namely the importance of language maintenance in the current environment of rapid language loss, the role that digital technologies play in this maintenance, and the benefits of cross-disciplinary and international collaboration in achieving these goals.