Calls & Conferences

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Reminder: Call for Organized Session Proposals, SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting, New Orleans

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The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold its annual winter meeting jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) in New Orleans, LA on January 2–5, 2020. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.

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CFP: Linguistic Research with Diaspora Communities

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The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees estimates that as many as 56 million people around the world are displaced by war, disaster, environmental degradation, poverty, and other causes. Millions of speakers of endangered languages are among these displaced people, and linguists around the world increasingly find themselves working with speakers living outside their region of origin. Yet, many best practices in linguistic research start with assumptions about language communities that are inapplicable to language spoken in diaspora contexts. The purpose of the meeting is to integrate multidisciplinary perspectives into linguistic research with diaspora communities and to discuss diaspora linguistics in its own right.

CFP: 2nd International Conference on Revitalization of Indigenous and Minoritized Languages

Following the first edition of the Conference (Barcelona, ​​2017), the mission of the Second International Conference on Indigenous and Minorized Languages ​​Revitalization (2018) is to bring together instructors, practitioners, indigenous leaders, academics and students who speak and study these languages. This international conference includes research, pedagogy and practice on the diverse languages ​​and cultures of indigenous and minority populations around the world. This International Conference involves participants in a global dialogue and also serves as a forum for networking and exchange of ideas, experiences and research on issues of language revitalization from interdisciplinary perspectives. In other words, your mission is to exchange different ideas and experiences that will transcend the walls of academia and find space in the broader global community, giving all participants an opportunity to share their multiple ways of being, seeing, knowing and learning.

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SSILA 2020 Winter Meeting: Call for Organized Session Proposals

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Deadline: May 1 @ 11:59 p.m. Hawaii-Aleutian time

The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold its annual winter meeting jointly with the Linguistic Society of America (LSA) at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside in New Orleans, LA on January 2–5, 2020. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.

Language: Call for submissions on Indigenous languages

The United Nations has declared 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Languages. In recognition of this, Language is encouraging submissions dealing with research on any aspect of Indigenous languages. Papers on Indigenous languages have contributed to linguistics in significant ways. Just a few of the many influential Language articles that rely on data from Indigenous languages: Leonard Bloomfield, On sound change in Central Algonquian (1925); Marianne Mithun, On the nature of noun incorporation (1986); Anthony Woodbury, Meaningful phonological processes: A consideration of Central Alaskan Eskimo prosody (1987); Larry Hyman and Francis Katamba, A new approach to tone in Luganda (1993); Alice Harris, Where in the word is the Udi clitic? (2000); Nicholas Evans, Dunstan Brown, and Greville Corbett, The semantics of gender in Mayali: Partially parallel systems and formal implementation (2002); Rachel Nordlinger and Louisa Sadler, Nominal tense in cross-linguistic perspective (2004); Joe Blythe, Preference organization driving structuration: Evidence from Australian Aboriginal Interaction for pragmatically motivated grammaticalization (2013); Judith Tonhauser, David Beaver, Craige Roberts, and Mandy Simons, Toward a taxonomy of projective content (2103); and Laura McPherson and Kevin Ryan, Tone-tune association in Tommo So (Dogon) folk songs (2018).

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CFP: SSILA Summer 2019 Meeting

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The Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA) will hold a summer meeting at the LSA 2019 Linguistic Institute, which will take place at the University of California, Davis. The meeting will be held on July 13 and July 14 at the UC Davis Conference Center. SSILA meetings allow scholars to present on a wide range of topics centered on any aspect of Indigenous American languages.

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CFP: Community-based language research across the Americas

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CBLRAA 2019 is a workshop organized in conjunction with the annual meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas (SSILA). The goal of the workshop is to promote and proliferate strategies for documenting and revitalizing American indigenous languages by finding ways to improve communication among community members, researchers, and institutions who engage in community-based language work. At the workshop we will discuss differences and similarities among the community-based approaches being applied, ethical and practical issues that arise, what we can learn from one another, and how we can maintain channels of communication and collaboration in the future.

Call for Papers: 50th Algonquian Conference / Le 50e Congrès des Algonquinistes

Deadline: September 05, 2018

(La version française apparaît ci-dessous.)

The 50th Algonquian Conference will be held in Edmonton at the University of Alberta, from Thursday, October 25 to Sunday October 28, 2018.

Visit the conference page here.

The conference is co-organized by the University of Alberta, the University of Lethbridge, the First Nations University of Canada, and the Maskwacîs Education and Schools Commission.

This conference is an international meeting for indigenous and non-indigenous scholars and community members to share research relating to Algonquian peoples, the largest First Peoples group in Canada. Fields of interest include anthropology, archaeology, art, biography, education, ethnography, ethnobotany, folklore, geography, history, language education, linguistics, literature, music, indigenous studies, political science, psychology, religion and sociology.

The Conference will open on the evening of Thursday, October 25 with a welcome reception. Regular conference sessions will take place from Friday morning to Sunday noon.

If you are interested in making a presentation, please send a title and abstract of maximum 300 words to the following address: alg50@ualberta.ca.

The subject line of your e-mail must read “Algonquian Conference” and the text of your e-mail message must include your name, postal address, institutional and/ or tribal affiliation and telephone number as well as the e-mail address of each speaker.

Please indicate your requirements for audio-visual equipment. The deadline for submission of abstracts is September 5, 2018.

Le 50e Congrès annuel des Algonquinistes aura lieu à l’Université de l’Alberta du jeudi 25 octobre au dimanche 28e octobre 2010.

Le congrès est co-organisé par l’Université de l’Alberta, l’Université de Lethbridge, First Nations University of Canada et Maskwacîs Education and Schools Commission.

Ce congrès réunit les chercheurs et chercheuses autochtones et non-autochtones de plusieurs pays et de divers horizons disciplinaires qui s’intéressent aux populations algonquiennes, lesquelles constituent le groupe autochtone le plus nombreux au Canada. Les domaines comprennent l’anthropologie, l’archéologie, les arts, l’éducation, l’ethnographie, l’ethnobotanique, le folklore, la géographie, l’histoire, les langues et l’éducation, la linguistique, la littérature, la musique, les études autochtones, les sciences politiques, la psychologie, la religion et la sociologie.

Le Congrès débutera le jeudi 25 octobre en soirée avec un cocktail de bienvenue. Les communications commenceront le vendredi dans la matinée et se poursuivront jusqu’au dimanche midi.

Les personnes qui souhaitent faire une présentation sont priées d’envoyer un titre et un résumé d’au plus une page à l’adresse suivante: alg50@ualberta.ca.

L’en-tête de votre message courriel doit porter la mention CONGRÈS DES ALGONQUINISTES. Le texte de votre message doit inclure toutes vos coordonnées: nom, institution ou affiliation tribale, ainsi que les adresses électroniques de tous les coprésentateurs.

N’oubliez pas de nous faire part de vos besoins en termes d’appareils audio-visuels et électroniques. La date limite de soumission des résumés est le 5 septembre 2018.