2012 Siouan Conference venue.

[Jimm GoodTracks]

Bob:
I think it is an excellent opportunity to enhance our own conference.  I say 
we schedule in on the field linguistics Summer workshop.  It definitely 
would be of major interest to me.
Jimm & Saul
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rankin, Robert L" <rankin at ku.edu>
To: "Siouan list" <siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU>; 
<David.Kaufman at hooch.colorado.edu>
Sent: Friday, July 29, 2011 4:23 PM
Subject: 2012 Siouan Conference venue.


Dear friends and colleagues,

The Anthropology Department at the University of Kansas is hosting a field 
linguistics Summer workshop here in Lawrence next June.  We have an 
opportunity to “piggyback” next year’s Siouan and Caddoan Linguistics 
Conference (SCLC) on this workshop.  We would likely be able to get one 
media-enhanced room that held up to 40-50 people from e.g. 9-5 on June 
15-17, the Friday, Saturday, and half of Sunday preceding the “Co-Lang 
workshop”.  Inexpensive “student housing” may also be available.  This 
arrangement would enable the workshop participants to see some of the 
results of “real” field investigation and language maintenance/revival 
efforts.  Siouanists would also be able to interact with workshop 
participants.  This seems to me to be a good opportunity, especially since 
none of our number at this year’s conference volunteered to host the meeting 
next year.

I will need to let Arienne Dwyer at KU know within the next couple of weeks 
if we wish to pursue this possibility.  Please let me know what you think. 
You can reply to the list or, if you wish, you can write me off-list at 
rankin at ku dot edu.

Bob