[Algonquiana] Next steps for working group

[Hammerly, Christopher]

Aaniin giinawaa,

First, I want to thank everyone, and especially the organizers of AC53, for a wonderful weekend of talks and discussion. As always, I learned a ton and have been feeding off the buzz of ideas that the conference always generates for the past week.

This email is meant as a follow-up on discussion on Saturday afternoon to form a working group or ad hoc committee that can be a space for continued discussion related to positionality, history, community, and more as it relates to the Algonquian Conference and its various outputs (e.g. the Papers of the Algonquian Conference). The goal of this group will be to generate a set of recommendations that can be a guide for the Algonquian Conference. So many great ideas have already been floated. Among them: how to write a positionality statement, how to contextualize citations of racist or otherwise problematic sources, how to integrate Algonquian ethics into our work.

As a first step towards creating this group, I would like to see who is interested in being in the loop. Please fill out this form by Monday November 1st if so: https://forms.gle/AKugbYEaJyUTnTp19

After November 1, I will send a message to everyone who has expressed interest. From there, we will find a time to have an initial meeting, ideally sometime in November. At this meeting I will present a brief summary of the ideas from the initial discussion (I have notes from various people and the chat record to work from--thanks to those who sent those along!) and we will decide on the best way to move forward.

Please contact me at chris.hammerly at ubc.ca with any questions, concerns, or ideas. I am really excited to work with everyone and see where this goes.

Weweni,

Chris

P.S. Feel free to forward this email to anyone you think might be interested but who you suspect many not be on this list. And if anyone with a facebook wants to post there, do so!


Christopher Hammerly

Assistant Professor

Department of Linguistics

University of British Columbia

chris.hammerly at ubc.ca | christopherhammerly.com