Dene (Athabaskan) Langauges Conference (fwd)

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Dene (Athabaskan) Langauges Conference
Call for Papers

Call Deadline: 15-Apr-2005

The Dene Languages Conference will be held at the University of Victoria
on June 6-7, immediately following the ''Stabilizing Indigenous
Languages Symposium'' (SILS) on June 2-5.

Please send abstracts on any topic relating to Dene languages to me at
the address below. Electronic formats are preferred (.pdf or .doc files
please; please test for font issues). I am expecting that the talks will
last for 20 minutes with 10 minutes for discussion. We will have a
digital projector available for the Dene languages conference, and
other equipment should be available also. (Please specify your
requirements.) The deadline for abstracts is 15 April 2005.

Some people will be presenting at both SILS and the Dene languages
conference, or at one only. Either way, there is a lot of information
about Victoria on the SILS website that will be useful for you. Check
it out at:

http://www.fpcf.ca/SILS2005/

The on-campus housing page is at:

http://housing.uvic.ca/visitor/visitoraccom.php

On-campus housing will be the cheapest, but there are many other nice
places to stay in Victoria. The SILS website has information on hotels,
etc also.

It is not necessary to register for SILS if you are only going to attend
the Dene languages conference. (There will probably be a small
registration fee for the Dene languages conference but details are not
known on this yet.)

Victoria is on Vancouver Island, Coast Salish territory, a short plane
or boat trip from Seattle or Vancouver, which are on the mainland.
Because of being on an island, flights can fill up fast, so please take
this into account when making your travel plans. Please watch the SILS
website for further information on transportation options. We are
expecting perhaps 500 people for SILS, so it could be a busy place!

The organizers are aware that the timing is short, but the opportunity
to hold a Dene languages conference together with SILS was too good to
miss.

There will be further information forthcoming as the organizers get more
organized!

Looking forward to seeing you in Victoria in June 2005 for SILS, or the
Dene languages conference, or both!

--Leslie Saxon (for the organizing committee)
(saxon at uvic.ca)

PS. Plans are underway for a larger Dene languages conference in
Yellowknife at the end of June 2006. We have enlisted the support of
some people in the Government of the Northwest Territories and they are
very supportive!