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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12pt;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255)">Dear colleagues, this<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> upcoming event about Indigenous languages, media, and revitalization may be of interest to many of you. Please join us!</span></div>
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LANGUAGE LIVES IN UNEXPECTED PLACES</b></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month, the<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><a href="https://chi.la.psu.edu/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" style="margin:0px"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">Center
for Humanities & Information</span></a></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px"> </span>at Penn State University invites you to join us for the two-day webinar “Language Lives in Unexpected
Places,” a discussion of Indigenous language revitalization, information systems, and communicative technologies.<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">NOVEMBER 17 & NOVEMBER 18, 2020 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0px;font-family:Calibri, sans-serif;background-color:white"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Popular depictions of Indigenous languages rarely place them in the Information Age. Attention to their
presence in what Dakota Sioux historian Philip Deloria might call “unexpected places” (2004; see also Webster and Peterson 2011) challenge representational expectations of where and how Indigenous languages are meaningfully deployed. Across the Americas, Indigenous
languages are finding emergent vitalities in both institutional and grassroots contexts. </span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">How are languages—and people—transformed by their contemporary engagements with new
media and informational technologies? How are Indigenous users transforming media and communication technologies and practices? Contemporary engagements with Indigenous media, performance, activism, and scholarship demonstrate ways in which what is old may
be made new again, or what is new can be made old and invested with the authority of the past for future action. The speakers in this webinar traverse the unexpected, regenerative, and sometimes contradictory, linguistic and media practices of Indigenous-language
speakers across the America, who work to decolonize and Indigenize various spaces and media, both old and new.</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Register here:<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="https://bit.ly/2TP7ecr" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" title="https://bit.ly/2TP7ecr" style="margin:0px">https://bit.ly/2TP7ecr</a></span></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 2:30 - 4:30 pm EST</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">2:30pm Welcoming Remarks<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Panel 1 “Mediated Methods”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Erin Debenport (UCLA) – “Business as Usual: The Twin Futures of Indigenous Language Media”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Chris Bloechl (University of Chicago) – “Formulations of Locality and Modernity in Mediatized Yucatec Maya”<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Qui’chi Patlan (UT Austin) – “‘Yachak’ or ‘Brujo’? Branding a Shamanic Drum and Chant in Otavalo’s Pirate Economy”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Georgia Ennis (Penn State) – “Reweaving Worlds: More-than-Language Reclamation in the Western Amazon”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Discussant, Tony Webster (UT Austin)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<b><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 2:30 – 4:30 pm EST</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></b></p>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Panel 2 “Transforming Textuality”<span style="margin:0px"> </span></span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Karl Swinehart (University of Louisville) – “Text, Toponyms, and Transformation: Aymara in La Paz’s Linguistic Landscape”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Joseph Marks (University of Arizona) – “(Re)contextualizing and Transforming Indigenous Motifs for Healing During Times of Sorrow”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<li><span style="margin:0px;color:black">Morgan Siewert (UT Austin) – “The Grammar of Stories: Reimagining Intellectual Authority and Lexicography in the Production of a Community-Generated Nishnaabemwin Word List”</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></li></ul>
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<span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color:black">Discussant, Jenny Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)</span><span style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman", serif;color:black"><span style="margin:0px;font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> </span></span></p>
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