[Edling] Invitation : Ecology of Indigenous languages Conference Sept 19–20, Registration open

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From: Virtanen, Pirjo K <pirjo.virtanen at helsinki.fi>
Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2019 1:42:29 PM
To: Dervin, Fred <fred.dervin at helsinki.fi>
Subject: Invitation : Ecology of Indigenous languages Conference Sept 19–20, Registration open

Warmly welcome to

International Conference organised by Indigenous Studies

to celebrate theYear of Indigenous Languages

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Árran – Ecology of Indigenous languages

 19.–20.9.2019

University of Helsinki, Lecture hall 1, Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33

Join this conference to discuss with renown indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and artists and to learn about Indigenous languages in the view of current socio-political, economic, and environmental changes. The speakers are coming from several continents to Helsinki. The event is a part of official program of the Year of Indigenous Languages declared by the UN and Unesco. In Northern Sámi language, ‘Árran’ means hearth/fireplace, and we take it as an analogy to discuss communally Indigenous languages. Metaphorically, sharing stories and narratives, verbal art, ways of speaking, and their symbolism fuels the warmth and guarantees the continuation of the Árran.

The key concept of the conference, language ecology, matches contemporary ideas of interaction, relationality, and socialization with the world. It can also be understood as an engagement and interaction with the environment where people use language. Indigenous peoples have often demonstrated that for them languages are a mode of experiencing and relating to the world (also in a very material sense). At the conference we aim to address to what extent indigenous languages do things in relation to a given language ecology in which ideologies, socio-political, and economic forces as well as non-human agencies play a big role.

The panels focus on Indigenous languages and the environment, morphology of indigenous arts and crafts, indigenous literature, as well as revival of indigenous languages. Keynote speakers of the conference are Prof. Gunvor Guttorm (Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway) and Prof. Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin, USA).

Prof. Gunvor Guttorm (Sámi University of Applied Sciences, Norway)

Gunvor Guttorm is Professor in “duodji” (e.g., Sámi arts and crafts, traditional art, applied art) at the Sámi University College of Applied Sciences in Guovdageaidnu/Kautokeino, Norway. She has long experience teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in “duodji”, both practically and theoretically. Guttorm has not only written several books and articles on the dynamicity of Sámi art and craft, but also participated in exhibitions in Sápmi and abroad. Her latest book, Duodjáris duojárat : duddjon ealiha duodjedigaštallama : artihkkalčoakkáldat, has shown the connections between duodji, language, Indigenous knowledge, and social relations.

Prof. Anthony Webster (University of Texas at Austin, USA): Learning to be satisfied: Navajo poetics, a chattering chipmunk, and anthropology on an intimate scale

This talk begins by focusing in on a brief moment in a larger narrative told by John Watchman in Navajo to Edward Sapir in the late 1920s.  First the narrative is placed within its larger narrative context (that of a Coyote story), then the narrative moment is looked at from a variety of perspectives--from an ethnopoetic perspective, from a contextual perspective (ecological and interpersonal), and finally by placing the narrative moment--which focuses on a chattering chipmunk--within a larger Navajo framework of meaning and moral responsibility. As the analysis slowly expands, touching on a variety of Navajo aesthetic and ethical sensibilities, recent work with Navajo poets informs this interpretive framework and its limits. This recognition of limits then leads to a discussion of the responsibility of anthropologists on the kinds of knowledge we acquire and on the limits of such knowledge acquisition. It concludes by arguing for an anthropology on an intimate scale that seeks a mediative role that rejects an extractive view of anthropology and the study of Native American verbal art more broadly.

Anthony K. Webster is Professor of Anthropology, affiliate of the Native American Indigenous Studies Program and associated faculty in Linguistics at the University Texas in Austin, USA. Webster has specialized in Navajo poetry and poetics as well as verbal art more generally. His area of interest comprises linguistic anthropology, especially acoustemology, language change, language contact, aesthetics, and linguistic and social inequalities. In addition to numerous articles, his publications include Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics (UNM Press, 2009), Intimate Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry (UofArizona Press, 2015), The Legacy of Dell Hymes: Ethnopoetics, Narrative Inequality and Voice with Paul Kroskrity (Indiana University Press, 2015) and The Sounds of Navajo Poetry: A Humanities of Speaking (Peter Lang, 2018).

Panel speakers include:

Mere Kepa  (University of Auckland, Aoteorea/New Zealand)

Linita Manu'atu (Api Fakakoloa Educational Services,New Zealand & Tonga Institute of Education, Kingdom of Tonga)

Daniel Mundurucu (Mundurucu author, Brazil)

Ekaterina Grudzeva (University of Helsinki)

Harald Gaski (University of Tromsø, Norway)

Inga Ravna Eira (Sámi author)

Jelena Porsanger (University of Helsinki)

Katarina Pirak Sikku (Sámi artist)

Maria Khachaturyan (University of Helsinki)

Robert Brave Heart Sr. (Executive Vice President at Red Cloud Indian School, Pine Ridge, South Dakota, USA)

Stef Spronck (University of Helsinki)

Organizers: Laura Siragusa, Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen  (Indigenous Studies/ Environmental Humanities program), Hanna Guttorm (HELSUS/ Indigenous Studies), Irja Seurujärvi-Kari (Indigenous Studies), Rani-Henrik Andersson, and Olesya Khanina (Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies)

Program and Further information: https://www.helsinki.fi/en/conferences/arran-ecology-of-indigenous-languages

Registration before Sept 12: https://elomake.helsinki.fi/lomakkeet/97903/lomake.html (places limited). Registration includes coffees and Welcome Reception. Participation is free.

The event on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/811183392592139/

Welcome! Buresboahtin!

Organisers.

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Pirjo Kristiina Virtanen

Alkuperäiskansatutkimus/

Indigenous Studies

Unioninkatu 40, room A408 (P.O. Box 24)

00014 University of Helsinki, Finland

Tel. +358 2941 40020/ +358 50 3182400

https://helsinki.academia.edu/PirjoKristiinaVirtanen

New  book: Creating Dialogues: Indigenous Perceptions and Changing Forms of Leadership in Amazonia

https://upcolorado.com/university-press-of-colorado/item/3121-creating-dialogues

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