{"id":5706,"date":"2022-08-30T11:58:02","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/?p=5706"},"modified":"2022-08-30T11:58:02","modified_gmt":"2022-08-30T11:58:02","slug":"island-voices-at-the-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2022\/08\/30\/island-voices-at-the-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Island Voices at the Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5704\" src=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/conference-pictures.jpg\" alt=\"conference pictures\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/conference-pictures.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/conference-pictures-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/conference-pictures-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/conference-pictures-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Participants at the Soillse conference on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/e\/rooting-minority-language-policy-in-the-speaker-community-tickets-266759784697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Rooting Minority Language Policy in the Speaker Community<\/a> have come from across Europe and North America, from across Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and from across the Hebridean islands that were the focus of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.uhi.ac.uk\/en\/research-enterprise\/res-themes\/humanities-and-arts\/language-sciences-institute\/publications\/the-gaelic-crisis-in-the-vernacular-community\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community<\/a>&#8221; publication in 2020. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.soillse.ac.uk\/en\/conference-programme\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">programme<\/a> is challenging for those with an interest in generating and maintaining effective policy to address the declining use of the language in the heartland communities where it has survived until now.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to these key policy questions on the formal programme, samples of the video recording work in which Island Voices has been engaged, frequently in association with the Soillse network, are also available to view on the <a href=\"hhttps:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2022\/08\/04\/community-playlists\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">conference &#8220;fringe&#8221;<\/a>. Nach math gu bheil Guthan nan Eilean rin cluinntinn aig co-labhairt mu dheidhinn c\u00e0nan nan Eilean!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Participants at the Soillse conference on Rooting Minority Language Policy in the Speaker Community have come from across Europe and North America, from across Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, and from across the Hebridean islands that were the focus of the &#8220;Gaelic Crisis in the Vernacular Community&#8221; publication in 2020. The programme is challenging for those &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/2022\/08\/30\/island-voices-at-the-conference\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Island Voices at the Conference<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5704,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-research","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northpost.co.uk\/uhi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}