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Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 16:59:41
From: Nicholas Ostler [nicholas at ostler.net]
Subject: Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries
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Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries
Short Title: FEL XVII
Date: 01-Oct-2013 - 04-Oct-2013
Location: Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Contact: Mary Jane Norris
Contact Email: felcarleton2013 at gmail.com
Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics
Meeting Description:
FEL XVII
Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Community Connections, Collaborative Approaches, and Cross-Disciplinary Research
Ottawa, Canada, October 2013
The 17th Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages (FEL) will be held October 1-4 at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.
Efforts world wide to preserve, maintain, and revitalize endangered languages often encounter limited resources and funding. This points to the need for collaborative approaches and for the pooling of resources, whether on a local, national, or international scale. Such cooperative ventures extend beyond the constraints of boundaries, whether these involve linguistic or ethnic identities, geography, jurisdictions, community size, type and location (urban, rural, isolated), political or social considerations, language status (official or unofficial, dominant or minority), familial and generational ties, academic disciplines, or institutional or group affiliations.
Possible conference excursions and activities include:
- A pre-conference excursion (visit to Aboriginal community) Tuesday, October 1
- A reception Tuesday evening October 1
- A banquet Thursday October 3
- A post-conference two-day weekend trip October 5 and 6.
For more details about the conference please visit the FEL webpage at http://www.ogmios.org.
All Sessions to be held in Residence Commons, Fenn Lounge
http://www6.carleton.ca/fel2013/
Ottawa, Canada 1 – 4 October 2013
Scheduled programme:
Tuesday, 1 October
07:30-16:30
Kitigan Zibi field trip
19:15-21:30
Registration and informal get together with buffet and drinks
19:45-20:00
Welcome on behalf of Carleton University and Host FEL Committee:
- School of Linguistics and Language Studies: Marie-Odile Junker
- Department of Sociology and Anthropology: Donna Patrick
- Chair of the FEL XVII Local Organizing Committee: Mary Jane Norris
20:00-20:15
Nicholas Ostler, FEL Chairman
Address on behalf of the Foundation for Endangered Languages http://www.ogmios.org
Wednesday, 2 October
07:30-08:30
Continental breakfast
08:30-08:45
Welcome
Opening Prayer (Algonquin Elder)
08:45-09:00
Opening remarks
Community collaborations with organizations, researchers, institutions
09:00-09:45
Keynote 1 Lorna Williams (Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Knowledge and Learning, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC) Nuk’wantwal’ - Collaborative and community-centered approaches to language vitalization from an indigenous perspective
Session 1: Collaborations with language and cultural organizations; governments
09:45-10:15
1-1 Stéphane Cloutier (Director of Official Languages, Government of Nunavut)
UQAUSIVUT: Our Language - Implementing made-in-Nunavut language legislation
10:15-10:45
Photo session and coffee/tea break
10:45-11:15
1-2 Sally Treloyn, Rona Googninda Charles and Sherika Nulgit (University of Melbourne; Pandanus Park Community; Kupungarri Community)
Repatriation of song materials to support intergenerational transmission of knowledge about language in the Kimberley region of northwest Australia
11:15-11:45
1-3 Stelómethet Ethel B Gardner, Heather Blair, and Shelby LaFramboise-Helgeson (University of Alberta)
Being Cree in the 21st century through language, literacy, and culture: Iyiniwoskinîkiskwewak (Young Women) take on the challenges
11:45-12:15
1-4 Thomas Saunders (Kimberley Interpreting Service Aboriginal Corporation) Collaborations and connections between an Aboriginal organisation and endangered language speakers: Interpreting and translating in the Kimberley Region of Western Australia, Australia
12:15-13.30
Buffet Lunch
Wednesday, 2 October
Session 2: Collaborations with universities, researchers, institutes and schools
13:30-14:00
2-1 Mela Sarkar, Janine Metallic, Beverly Baker, Constance Lavoie, and Teresa Strong-Wilson (McGill University; Université du Québec à Chicoutimi)
Siawinnu’gina’masultinej: A language revitalization initiative for Mi’gmaq in Listuguj, Canada
14:00-14:30
2-2 Palash Kumar Nath (Gauhati University)
Collaborative approach towards language preservation and revitalization –Perspectives from Northeast India
14:30-15:00
2-3 Colleen M. Fitzgerald and Joshua D. Hinson (The University of Texas at Arlington; Chickasaw Language Revitalization Program, Oklahoma)
'Ilittibaatoksali' 'We Are Working Together': Perspectives on our Chickasaw Tribal-Academic Collaboration
15:00-15:30
Coffee/tea break
15:30-16:00
2-4 Galadima Moses Pyefa (Plateau State University, Bokkos, Nigeria)
An analysis of the Native Language Preservation Programme of Plateau State University
16:00-16:30
2-5 Rob Amery & Vincent (Jack) Kanya Buckskin (University of Adelaide; Kaurna Warra Pintyanthi)
Having it both ways: Towards recognition of the Kaurna language movement within the community and within the university sector
16:30-17:00
2-6 Claudia Soria, Joseph Mariani and Carlo Zoli (Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale Italy; Institute for Multilingual and Multimedia Information (IMMI), LIMSI-CNRS, France; Smallcodes S.r.L. Italy)
Dwarfs sitting on giants’ shoulders: How LTs for regional and minority languages can benefit from piggybacking on major languages
17:30-18:30
Pizza followed by evening of Aboriginal films, art & culture
19:00-21:00
Evening of A
Aboriginal films, art & culture
(Evening hosted by Louise Profeit-LeBlanc, Aboriginal arts coordinator, Canada Council, with short presentation followed by films)
Thursday, 3 October
08:00-09:00
Continental breakfast
Community connections and collaborative strategies for language support within and across boundaries of language, culture, geography, place and generations
09:00-09:45
Keynote 2
Lenore A. Grenoble (Inuit Circumpolar Council, Canada; University of Chicago)
The Arctic indigenous language initiative: Assessment, promotion and collaboration
Session 3: Strategies / Issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations
I: Standardization and dialects
09:45-10:15
3-1 Jeela Palluq-Cloutier (Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit, Government of Nunavut) Standardization of the Inuit language in Canada
10:15-10:45
Coffee/tea break
10:45-11:15
3-2 Christine Schreyer and John Wagner (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus) Kala Biŋatuwã: A community driven alphabet for the Kala language
11:15-11:45
3-3 Robyn Giffen (University of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus)
Divergent dialects or similar languages: A case study of Nabit and Gurenɛ
11:45-13:45
FEL AGM with Buffet Lunch
Thursday, 3 October
Session 4: Strategies / Issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations
II: Minority Languages, Regional; Urban / Rural Areas and Diaspora
13:45-14:15
4-1 Saiqa Imtiaz Asif (Bahauddin Zakariya University, Multan, Pakistan)
Ethnic identity or regional identity? A case study of Siraikis redefining themselves
14:15-14:45
4-2 Thiago Costa Chacon, Sarah Shulist and Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara; University of Western Ontario)
Creating a language center in the upper Rio Negro (Amazon): Considerations for ongoing collaborations
14:45-15:15
Coffee and start of poster sessions
Session 5:
14:45-15:45
See poster appendix for list of presentations
Poster Sessions I: Hard copy
Community connections, collaborative approaches, cross-disciplinary research coffee/tea break included with hard copy posters demos
Poster Session II: Electronic
Collaborative approaches with information and computer technologies
Electronic Poster (E-P) session organizer and chair:
Marie-Odile Junker, Carleton University
15:45-16:15
E-P1
Elise McClay, Erin Olson, Carol Little, Hisako Noguchi, Alan Bale, Jessica Coon, and Gina Cook (McGill University, Concordia University, iLanguage Lab)
Using technology to bridge the gap between speakers, learners, and linguists
16:15-17:30
E-P2
Marie-Odile Junker and presenters: See Poster Appendix for presentations
Language maintenance and preservation in the digital age: A series of presentations provide live demonstrations of cutting-edge projects, showing how information and communication technologies can support language documentation, maintenance and revitalization of Aboriginal (First Nation, Metis & Inuit) languages spoken in Canada
19:00-22:00
Conference Dinner
(With evening of cultural presentations / entertainment)
Location: River Room, Carleton University
Friday, 4 October
08:00-09:00
Continental breakfast
Cross-disciplinary research on endangered/indigenous languages and cultures
09:00-09:45
Keynote 3: Onowa McIvor (University of Victoria)
Protective effects of language learning, use and culture on the health and well-being of indigenous people in Canada
Session 6
Language and culture connections: Health, well-being, and educational outcomes
09:45-10:15
6-1 Leanne C. Findlay and Dafna E. Kohen (Statistics Canada)
Linking culture and language to Aboriginal children’s outcomes: Lessons from Canadian data
10:15-10:45
Coffee/tea break
10:45-11:15
6-2 Joanne Tompkins, Anne Murray-Orr, Sherise Paul-Gould, Starr Sock Roseanne Clark, and Darcie Pirie. (St Francis Xavier University; Eskasoni Elementary and Middle School, Eskasoni First Nation; and Tobique First Nation)
An inquiry into two Aboriginal language immersion programs
11:15-11:45
6-3 Heather A. Blair, Jacqueline Filipek and Martin Zeidler (University of Alberta)
Addressing Joshua Fishman’s Ideological Clarification: Working With Pre-service Teachers
Session 7:
Strategies/issues across language, culture, geography, place and generations
III: Generations
11:45-12:15
7-1 Joan A. Argenter (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Intergenerational Permeability and cleavages: From parents as agents of language shift to grandparents as a source of knowledge in Catalan, a heritage language in Alghero, Sardinia
12:15-13:30
Lunch break
13:30-14:00
7-2 Erik Anonby (Carleton University)
In language survival, is every barrier a barrier? How speakers of Majma-Ma use obstacles as a context for response
Friday, 4 October
Session 8:
Measures of language assessment, vitality and diversity
Data collection, surveys, instruments and indicators
14:00-14:30
8-1 Stéphanie Langlois and Annie Turner (Statistics Canada)
Aboriginal languages in Canada in 2011
14:30-15:00
8-2 Lori Morris and Marguerite MacKenzie (Université du Québec à Montréal; Memorial University)
Using all the pieces to solve the puzzle: The importance of Aboriginal language assessment in child populations
15:00-15:30
Coffee/tea break
15:30-16:00
8-3 Renée Lambert-Brétière (Université du Québec à Montréal)
Ethical dilemmas in documenting the Kwoma language of Papua New Guinea
16:00-16:30
Open session
16:30-17:00
Final discussion
17:00-17:15
Closing Prayer (Algonquin Elder)
Note: Post-conference weekend activities in Ottawa being explored (e.g. Museum of Civilization, National Art Gallery Visits)
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