[Linganth] Webinar: Language Lives in Unexpected Places (Nov 17-18)

[Ennis, Georgia C.]

Dear colleagues, this upcoming event about Indigenous languages, media, and revitalization may be of interest to many of you. Please join us!



LANGUAGE LIVES IN UNEXPECTED PLACES


In recognition of National Native American Heritage Month, the Center for Humanities & Information<https://chi.la.psu.edu/> at Penn State University invites you to join us for the two-day webinar “Language Lives in Unexpected Places,” a discussion of Indigenous language revitalization, information systems, and communicative technologies.


NOVEMBER 17 & NOVEMBER 18, 2020 2:30 - 4:30 PM EST


Popular depictions of Indigenous languages rarely place them in the Information Age. Attention to their presence in what Dakota Sioux historian Philip Deloria might call “unexpected places” (2004; see also Webster and Peterson 2011) challenge representational expectations of where and how Indigenous languages are meaningfully deployed. Across the Americas, Indigenous languages are finding emergent vitalities in both institutional and grassroots contexts. How are languages—and people—transformed by their contemporary engagements with new media and informational technologies? How are Indigenous users transforming media and communication technologies and practices? Contemporary engagements with Indigenous media, performance, activism, and scholarship demonstrate ways in which what is old may be made new again, or what is new can be made old and invested with the authority of the past for future action. The speakers in this webinar traverse the unexpected, regenerative, and sometimes contradictory, linguistic and media practices of Indigenous-language speakers across the America, who work to decolonize and Indigenize various spaces and media, both old and new.



Register here: https://bit.ly/2TP7ecr



Tuesday, November 17, 2020 | 2:30 - 4:30 pm EST



2:30pm Welcoming Remarks



Panel 1 “Mediated Methods”

  *   Erin Debenport (UCLA) – “Business as Usual: The Twin Futures of Indigenous Language Media”

  *   Chris Bloechl (University of Chicago) – “Formulations of Locality and Modernity in Mediatized Yucatec Maya”

  *   Qui’chi Patlan (UT Austin) – “‘Yachak’ or ‘Brujo’? Branding a Shamanic Drum and Chant in Otavalo’s Pirate Economy”

  *   Georgia Ennis (Penn State) – “Reweaving Worlds: More-than-Language Reclamation in the Western Amazon”



Discussant, Tony Webster (UT Austin)



Wednesday, November 18, 2020 | 2:30 – 4:30 pm EST


Panel 2 “Transforming Textuality”

  *   Karl Swinehart (University of Louisville) – “Text, Toponyms, and Transformation: Aymara in La Paz’s Linguistic Landscape”

  *   Joseph Marks (University of Arizona) – “(Re)contextualizing and Transforming Indigenous Motifs for Healing During Times of Sorrow”

  *   Morgan Siewert (UT Austin) – “The Grammar of Stories: Reimagining Intellectual Authority and Lexicography in the Production of a Community-Generated Nishnaabemwin Word List”



Discussant, Jenny Davis (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)


View the full schedule<http://georgiaennis.com/language-lives>


Questions? Please contact Georgia Ennis (gennis at psu.edu)


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Georgia Ennis (she/her/hers)
Junior Visiting Fellow
Center for the Humanities & Information
Penn State University
http://georgiaennis.com

The campuses of Penn State University reside on the expropriated homelands of the Erie, Lenape, Shawnee, and Susquehannock, as well as the Haudenosaunee Confederacy.



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