1. Interdisciplinary understandings – Linguistics and Sustainability

Interdisciplinary understandings of sustainability in and for linguistics

May 23–24, 2022 at Roskilde University, Denmark
Local organizer: Carsten Levisen

Keynote talks
	Towards the Sustainability of Languages and of Linguistics Felix Ameka Professor of Ethnolinguistic Vitality Leiden University
	Sustainable Linguistics: Inclusion, collaboration and making our field a safer place Celeste Rodríguez Louro Senior Lecturer and Australian Research Council Fellow in Linguistics The University of Western Australia
	On Ethics and Engagements: How sustainable are fieldwork methods in the study of minoritized languages? Reetta Toivanen Professor of Sustainability Science (indigenous sustainabilities) University of Helsinki

This workshop explores the concept of sustainability, from a language-centered, interdisciplinary perspective. Inviting linguists to join forces with sustainability scientists, the focus of the workshop revolves around two central questions:

- In what ways can insights from linguistics contribute to sustainability?
- In what ways do understandings of sustainability and sustainable living challenge current linguistic thought?

The complexity of words, metaphors, and linguistic worldviews that exist in the Nordics offer perspectives on the entanglements between people, nature, and life, and provide a Nordic perspective on expert understandings of sustainability. These perspectives guide us towards a concept of sustainability that is maximally relevant for the Nordics.