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Sophia Smith Galer
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Sophia Smith Galer

Journalist presenting How to Kill a Language

This is a talk, not a performance. The programme frames it around language loss, colonial coercion, migration and climate change, with an emphasis on how languages disappear and what can slow that process.

More about Sophia Smith Galer

Sophia Smith Galer is an award-winning journalist and the author of How To Kill A Language. Her work sits at the intersection of language, technology and culture, and the festival is using that frame for a discussion about endangered languages and cultural memory.

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