ASK THE EXPERTS: Endangered Alphabets
Channel: Independent Publishers of New England
Date: 2016-10-10

In this preview of their panel at #IPNE16 (http://IPNE.org/event-2029799), Tim Brookes begins with an introduction to the Endangered Alphabets Project, leading up to how he met Maung Nyeu. Broookes is the director of the Champlain Publishing Initiative and makes beautiful carvings of languages in peril. Nyeu has experienced firsthand the threat of cultural extermination in the Chittagong Hill Tracts of Bangladesh. A PhD student at Harvard, Nyeu will talk about the Our Golden Hour education project and the publishing he has been doing to create classroom materials for the indigenous children of the region, which includes books but is by no means limited to them. Brookes will talk about the latest developments in his own publishing enterprises and how social and non-traditional media have offered a global reach and a source of funding, neither of which would have been available by traditional publishing approaches.