SCLC May 1 deadline reminder

[Rankin, Robert L]

My experience organizing conferences predicts that most of the abstracts will arrive during the last couple of days if not hours.  People procrastinate, and scholars are the worst.


________________________________________
From: owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU [owner-siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU] on behalf of Mark J Awakuni-Swetland [mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu]
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2011 10:53 AM
To: siouan at lists.Colorado.EDU
Subject: Fw: SCLC May 1 deadline reminder

Aloha all,
I am forwarding this at Saul's request.
Apparently part of the material became disattached...
Mark
----- Forwarded by Mark J Awakuni-Swetland/UNLAS/UNL/UNEBR on 04/12/11 10:52 AM -----
"Saul G Schwartz (sschwart at Princeton.EDU)" <sschwart at Princeton.EDU>

04/12/11 09:47 AM


To
        mawakuni-swetland2 at unlnotes.unl.edu
cc

Subject
        SCLC May 1 deadline reminder







Aho Mark,
Sorry to trouble you again about this, but it looks like some of the last announcement got cut off (I'm not able to send to the list, but I can follow it online in the archives). Everything I wanted to say is in the body of this message below. Would you be able to just forward this e-mail to the list for me? Thanks for your assistance and for your patience.
Best wishes,
Saul

Hello all,

This is a reminder that May 1 is the deadline to submit a presentation title and abstract for the 2011 Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference. Below you will find the basic conference information as well as a revised tentative schedule. As you can see, to date about 20 presentations have been proposed, and we have received 2 abstracts. We will continue to revise this schedule as people submit their titles/abstracts and as they let us know if we have scheduled their presentation for a day that conflicts with their schedule.

PLEASE NOTE if there are no more presentation submissions, it appears that the conference will be compressed to Thursday and Friday. We are providing advance notice of this possibility so people can reconsider their travel plans. We will continue to keep you updated about this matter and will let you know as soon as we can if we have enough presentations to fill more than two days. A finalized schedule will be issued in May.

31st Annual
Siouan & Caddoan Languages Conference

June 15-18, 2011

Iowa Tribe of Kansas – Nebraska
George Ogdon Building
3345 Thrasher Road
White Cloud, Kansas 66094

Tentative presentations to date (subject to change):

Wednesday, June 15th, 2011
-Robert Rankin: Topic to be determined.

Thursday, June 16th, 2011
-Catherine Rudin:  Lexical vs. phrasal categories.
-Iren Hartmann: “Project Valency Classes in/on Hochank”
-Mary Marino: Stoney manuscripts of Father Valentin Vegreville.
-John Boyle: A topic on Hidatsa.
-John’s students from NEIU: 4-8 presentations on Mandan and language pedagogy for Twin Buttes.

Thursday, June 16, 7:00pm: Roundtable discussion on “Revival of the Wiki (CSG Project)” at the Eagle’s Nest Motel facilities. Participants may wish to dine together at the Motel?

Friday, June 17th, 2011
-Rueben I. Kent (Ioway-Otoe): “Language of the Traditional Cedar Flute”
-Mark Awakuni-Swetland: Monshtínge: A ‘Rabbit’ of a Different Color
-Linda Cumberland and Kira Mathews (Kaw): Progress report on ANA Kaw Dictionary project.
-Jill Greer: Short commemoration of the 75th anniversary of Marsh and Whitman working in the Ioway and Otoe communities.
-Jimm Goodtracks: Update on the IOM Dictionary Project and a language nest as an application of the Project.
-Jill Greer: Arthur Lightfoot (Ioway born in White Cloud) prayer material (talked about for last summer's culture camp).
-Randy Graczyk: A presentation on the state of the Crow language.
-Kathleen Danker: “What’s New with the Transcriptions and Translations of the Trickster Tales of Felix White, Sr.?”

Friday, June 17, 6:00pm: Everyone invited to share an evening of food and fellowship at home of Jimm Goodtracks, 1510 Wisconsin St, White Cloud, KS  (785-595-3335). Tamales and chile furnished. BYOB & desserts.

Saturday, June 18th, 2011
Presentations scheduled for Saturday as needed.

ABSTRACTS (to date):

Mark Awakuni-Swetland: Monshtínge: A ‘Rabbit’ of a Different Color

In the latter half of the 19th century James Owen Dorsey collected over 90 Omaha and Ponca stories. They were written in the native language with inter-linear glosses, rearranged into the English syntax, and printed in The C̸egiha Language (1890). Monshtínge, the Rabbit, figures prominently in many of these traditional hígon (stories). Students at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln have the opportunity to fulfill their college language requirement by completing a series of Omaha language classes. Faced with the lack of contemporary Omaha reading materials, each of the UNL cohorts have produced bilingual readers. This paper describes the 2010 work that began as an impromptu, in-class, creative story telling exercise. The unexpected result was the bilingual reader Monshtínge Tú T’émonthin the: The Zombie Blue Rabbit. It is offered as an example of how Native language materials can be produced that reflect modern concepts (zombies and blue rabbits) that excite student interest
while maintaining a traditional style of knowledge transfer (story telling).

Kathleen Danker:  What’s New with the Transcriptions and Translations of the Trickster Tales of Felix White, Sr.?.

This presentation provides an update for Siouan linguists and teachers of Native American languages on my long-term project of recording, transcribing, annotating, translating into English verse, and publishing a book of the Hochank Trickster narratives of the late Felix White, Sr., of Winnebago, Nebraska. I have completed preliminary versions of the fourteen stories that will comprise "The Foolish One: Trickster Narrative of Felix White, Sr." I have typed the transcriptions of these tales using IT (Interlinear Text) 1.01r7 annotation software which facilitates multiple-line transitions from Hochank phonemes to morphemes to literal English translations. In order to make this material a more useful tool for students learning how to speak the Hochank language, I am currently revising the top lines of my transcriptions to more accurately represent the actual pronunciations, contractions, and accent patterns of Mr. White’s speech as preserved on audio tapes. For this revision, I
am also checking over my annotations and translations for consistency and accuracy and making sure that the line numbers of the annotated transcriptions match up with those of my free translations into English verse.

About the 31st Annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

The 31st annual Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference will take place June 15-18, 2011. It is hosted by the Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska at the George Ogden Building, 3345 Thrasher Road, White Cloud, Kansas, 66094.

The conference will include two days (June 15-16) of academic presentations, including comparative Siouan grammar, and two days (June 17-18) of presentations on applied linguistics and community language revitalization. Dinner will be provided on June 17 at an evening social gathering.

Call for papers: We invite presentations on any aspect of Siouan and Caddoan languages. The final date to submit an abstract is May 1, 2011. It would be appreciated if those who are planning a presentation could let us know sooner rather than later for scheduling purposes. Presentations are 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes for questions.

Registration: Registration will take place at the conference. A $20 conference fee will help cover associated costs. This fee is waived for enrolled tribal members.

Accommodations: The Iowa Tribe of Kansas and Nebraska is offering conference rates for their casino cabins and motel. For reservations, call 660-442-3267 or 1-866-994-1320.

Questions? Please contact:

Saul Schwartz
sschwart at princeton.edu
785-595-3335 (home)
614-519-6964 (cell)

Jimm Goodtracks
jgoodtracks at gmail.com
785-595-3335 (home)
785-979-2015 (cell)