bad news; good news

[Rankin, Robert L]

John Boyle and Mary Marino contacted me about various possibilities.  I didn't want to get roped into organizing a separate meeting for Siouanists this Autumn, but it does turn out that KU is hosting the Mid-America Linguistics Conference sometime in October.  I talked with Sara Rosen, our Chair here, about having some Siouan sessions at MALC and she agreed that it would  be a nice addition to the conference.  I volunteered to handle any Siouan abstracts and to meet with the program committee to make everything dovetail.  Sara is planning an abstract deadline of August 1st, with notification of acceptances by Sept. 1st.  
 
I don't have a date for MALC yet, but I think they're planning it at a time that would conflict with the Endangered Languages of Latin America conference, wherever that is.  We can't find a time that has zero conflicts unfortunately.  I'll pass the call for papers along on this list and also send it to SSILA when I receive it from my dept. -- probably in a week's time.
 
I'm sorry to be missing a chance to see Saskatoon, but perhaps an Autumn meeting will be the next best thing.
 
Bob

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From: owner-siouan at lists.colorado.edu on behalf of ROOD DAVID S


> I would try very hard to make an October meeting, and in fact, I would
also try hard to bring along the people who will be working on the Lakota
conversation documentation project -- so we could have up to 5 Lakota or
Dakota speakers there.