News/Noticias
Dear SSILA:
I am series editor of the University of Nebraska Press NATIVE LITERATURES OF THE AMERICAS AND INDIGENOUS WORLD LITERATURES. Our latest volume is Suzanne Cook’s XURT’AN (Northern Lacandon myths, stories, songs), 2019. SSILA members have contributed to and edited other volumes and I would like to invite members to send me queries, proposals, outlines and so on.
brian.swann@cooper.edu or swann@cooper.edu
Sincerely,
Brian Swann
Professor of Humanities, The Cooper Union
Dear SSILA members,
This year’s NELS at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), to be held online Nov. 6-8, 2002, will include a special session on Indigenous languages, including talks on Blackfoot (Algonquian), Crow (Siouan), Cheyenne (Algonquian), Inuktitut (Inuit-Yupik-Unangan), Washo (isolate), and Chuj (Mayan), as well as a keynote talk on Algonquian languages by Will Oxford (U. Manitoba). You can check out the programme here:
https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/linguistique/en/nels51/
Our registration model includes free options for both staff and students.
Best regards,
Richard Compton
Associate Professor, UQAM
Call Deadline: April 15, 2020
The 13th International Workshop on Writing Systems and Literacy meeting will continue to bring together researchers from diverse research backgrounds and from various countries, the Association of Written Language and Literacy's thirteenth gathering (AWLL13) will be the first to be hosted in the USA at the University of North Carolina.
The Endangered Language Fund provides grants for language documentation and revitalization, and for linguistic fieldwork. The work most likely to be funded is that which serves both the native community and the field of linguistics, although projects which have immediate applicability to one group and more distant applicability to the other will also be considered. Support for publication is a low priority, although it will be considered. Proposals can originate in any country. The language involved must be in danger of disappearing within a generation or two. Endangerment is a continuum, and the location on the continuum is one factor in our funding decisions.
Call Deadline: Friday, February 7th at 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time)
The Linguistics Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 23rd Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), May 22, 2020 - May 23, 2020. WAIL provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the Indigenous languages of the Americas.
Keynote Speaker: Roberto Zariquiey (Pontifical Catholic University of Peru)
Call for Papers
Linguistic Field (s): Any topic relevant to the study of indigenous languages of the Americas
Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the study of Indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or less (excluding examples and / or references).
Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one co-authored paper. Please indicate your source (s) and type (s) of data in the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative, etc...). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the paper as well as who will be in attendance.
Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format to wail.ucsb@gmail.com. Please submit two abstracts, one with the identifying information of the person or persons giving the presentation along with affiliations and contact information, the other with no indication of the author (s).
Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet access. For this, please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper. Send hard copy submissions to:
Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Attn: Jordan AG Douglas
Department of Linguistics
University of California, Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA 93106
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is Friday, February 7th at 6:00 pm (Pacific Standard Time). Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than: Monday, March 2nd.
Contact Persons: Alonso Vásquez Aguilar, Jordan AG Douglas, and James Yee
For further information, please contact the conference coordinators, at wail.ucsb@gmail.com
