Registration Reminder - 33rd Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

[Mirzayan, Armik]

Hi Catherine, 
I am sorry this email is so late. I have been away from my USD email and from Vermillion for a while. My mom passed away in April and I had to take some time off. It has been a  difficult month. 

I did get your abstract, and have it here with me. Looks great, and I'm really looking forward to your talk. John and I will send a preliminary schedule soon. 

If you haven't done so already, please do call the Prairie Knights Casino Lodge to actually reserve your rooms (I think I had included their phone number in my general email to the list yesterday). We had 25 set aside for our conference. Make sure mention "Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference" so that you will get the good rate. We have not passed the 25 limit (yet) so you will be ok.

I am not too disappointed that the conference is not in Vermillion. I'm not too happy with USD. Being in Vermillion has isolated me from my family, and also destroying my research career for some reason. I am not able to do any research because I am either teaching a ridiculous amount of classes or I have had to travel thousands of miles. I had about 10 trips to Denver and California this past semester ... 

 best,
Armik

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Armik Mirzayan, Lakota Linguistics
Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Philosophy
The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion SD 57069
Armik.Mirzayan at usd.edu
Phone:  605-677-3159
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From: Siouan Linguistics [SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu] On Behalf Of Catherine Rudin [carudin1 at WSC.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, April 10, 2013 10:36 PM
To: SIOUAN at listserv.unl.edu
Subject: Re: Registration Reminder - 33rd Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference

Hi, Armik.
Attached is an abstract for my SCLC paper.

I just registered a few minutes ago -- very impressive web site.

It wasn't clear to me whether I was actually reserving a hotel room by clicking on "yes I want 2 double beds" ... I assume NOT, since it didn't list any prices or charge my card anything ...  I listed my roommate as "probably Deniz Rudin" (my son, who also plans to submit a paper to the conference), but in fact it's possible that my husband will also come, in which case we'll probably want two rooms; presumably these kinds of things will get worked out later by actually calling the hotel, right???

We will drive there, so shouldn't need any transportation assistance.

I admit to being disappointed the conference isn't in Vermillion.  When I heard you were organizing it I thought how wonderful to have it an hours drive from Wayne ... but I'm sure it will be great.  You ARE still in Vermillion, aren't you?  We should really get together sometime; so close by, it's ridiculous that I almost never get up there.

Best,
Catherine

>>> "Mirzayan, Armik" 04/05/13 7:16 PM >>>
Dear Siouanists and Caddoanists,

We have just a little over two months left to the 33rd Siouan and Caddoan Languages Conference, 13-15 June, 2013, at Sitting Bull College, at Ft. Yates, North Dakota, in conjunction with the Lakota Summer Institute!

If you want to attend, please remember to register online soon, at the conference announcement website:  http://www.laksummerinst.com/?page_id=36
(click either on "SCLC Registration" or on "Register" and just follow through).  If you are going to be presenting, you don't need to have an abstract ready now to register; you only need to have is a title/topic. That way we can start planning a preliminary schedule.

Registering soon will help us in organizing the housing and transportation.

And, as a reminder to presenters:  Abstract submission deadline for the conference is 5th of May (one month from now).  You can email abstracts, in PDF or Word format, to  Armik.Mirzayan at usd.edu<mailto:Armik.Mirzayan at usd.edu>.

Best wishes,
Armik

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Armik Mirzayan,  Assistant Professor
Department of Languages, Linguistics, and Philosophy
The University of South Dakota
414 E. Clark St.
Vermillion SD 57069
Armik.Mirzayan at usd.edu<mailto:Armik.Mirzayan at usd.edu>
Phone:  605-677-3159
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