The Department of Religious Studies at The University of Texas at Austin invites applications for a position in Maya religion in the context of Mesoamerican history and cultures at the level of tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor with tenure. We seek a scholar whose work contributes to the discipline of Religious Studies, with a focus on questions of indigeneity and the complex interactions of religious traditions from the period before European contact to the present. The position will begin in August 2020 and salary will be commensurate with rank and experience.
Job: Assistant, Associate Professor, Minority Languages and Dialects (Cluster Hire), University of Wisconsin-Madison
This position is a full-time, tenure-track faculty position at the Assistant Professor level, to start August 2020. Applications at the associate professor level may be considered in exceptional cases. The search is for a job candidate whose research focuses on linguistic, cognitive, developmental, sociolinguistic, and/or educational issues associated with the use of minority languages/dialects. In the US, "minority language" refers to languages other than English; "dialect" refers to distinctive variants of English spoken by communities defined by region, racial or ethnic identity, socioeconomic status, or other factors.
Journal Issue of Interest to SSILA Members: Cadernos de Etnolingüística
Call for Proposals: CoLang 2022 Expressions of Interest
Greetings from Susan Gehr and Jean-Luc Pierite, the co-conveners for CoLang 2019–2020 Advisory Circle. The CoLang Advisory Circle is seeking expressions of interest for hosting the 2022 Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang). These should take the form of a two-to-three page proposal that minimally:
Call for Applications: Documentation of Language & Material Knowledge
The British Museum’s Endangered Material Knowledge Programme (EMKP) and SOAS’ Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP) are delighted to announce a joint call for grant applications. Funded by Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – EMKP and ELDP jointly offer grants for collaborative projects that combine language and material knowledge documentation.
Job: Assistant Professor, Indigenous Language Sustainability, University of Alberta
Call for Applications: Endangered Languages Documentation Programme (ELDP)
Memorial session at SSILA 2020: Chafe, Callaghan, Krauss, and Hamp
Book: Uncommon Anthropologist
SSILA members may be interested in the recently-published book, Uncommon Anthropologist, by Nancy Mattina, published by the University of Oklahoma Press. View the details of this book on the University of Oklahoma Press website, and check out the summary below.
Native Voices Endowment Request for Proposals Now Available
The Native Voices Endowment (NVE) 2019 Request for Proposals is now available on the Endangered Language Fund website. The NVE program was created within ELF for the purpose of revitalizing and maintaining the Indigenous languages of the American Indian Nations whose ancestors encountered the 1803-1806 Lewis & Clark expedition. For details about eligibility, please see our website.
IJAL 85(4) Now Available
Marion Harry (1937–2019)
It is with great sadness that I report the passing of Mrs. Marion Harry of the Homalco First Nation. She was a fluent speaker of the Homalco language, a.k.a. Sliammon/Homalco/Klahoose dialect of the northernmost Coast Salish language. (The language has been referred to as Sliammon, Mainland (dialect) of Comox, or ʔayʔaǰuθəm.) She passed away on September 7, 2019, at the age of 82.
SSILA Winter 2020 Program Now Available
The program for the Winter 2020 meeting of SSILA is now available! Check it on the SSILA website here! Also keep checking back on that page for the latest updates as the program changes.
We look forward to seeing you in New Orleans!
Reminder: Nominations for SSILA Archiving Award Due Oct. 1
This is a quick reminder that nominations for the SSILA Archiving Award are due on October 1, 2019.
This award highlights the importance of creating long-term archival materials that are accessible to all communities concerned, including heritage and language communities as well as scholarly communities. It is meant to encourage others in academia to value such work as more comparable to analytic research.
Please visit the award page for more details about the award and the nomination process. We look forward to receiving your nominations!
SSILA 2020 Call for Session Chairs
The SSILA Program Committee is seeking session chairs for our 2020 annual meeting in New Orleans. The meeting will be held on January 2–5.
Session chairs introduce speakers, moderate any discussion during the question-and-answer period, and remind speakers when the time allotted for their 20-minute talk is drawing to a close. Session chairs should hold a Ph.D. and be current SSILA members.
The following sessions are in need of a chair:
- Thursday, January 2: Digital Tools for Lexicography and Orthography – 4:00PM-5:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Historical Linguistics 1 – 4:00PM-5:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Syntax 1 – 5:30PM-6:30PM
- Thursday, January 2: Revitalization 1 – 5:30PM-6:30PM
- Friday, January 3: Syntax 2 – 9:00AM-12:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Historical Linguistics 2 – 9:00AM-12:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Semantics 1 – 9:00AM-12:00PM Friday, January 3: Phonology – 2:00PM-5:00PM
- Friday, January 3: Semantics 2 – 2:00PM-4:30PM
- Friday, January 3: Archiving – 4:30PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Revitalization 2 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Morphology 1 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Syntax 3 – 9:00AM-11:00AM
- Saturday, January 4: Language Acquisition – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Morphology 2 – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Sociolinguistics – 2:00PM-3:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Revitalization 3 – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Phonetics – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Saturday, January 4: Language Contact – 3:00PM-5:00PM
- Sunday, January 5: Morphophonology – 9:00AM-10:30AM
- Sunday, January 5: Historical Linguistics 3 – 9:00AM-10:00AM
- Sunday, January 5: Syntax 4 – 10:30AM-12:00PM
- Sunday, January 5: Revitalization 4 – 10:00AM-12:00PM
To volunteer to chair a session, please add your name and university affiliation to the relevant session in the following link by September 30.
Click here to volunteer as a session chair.
Chairs will be assigned on a "first come, first served" basis. Please do not write your name in if there is already a volunteer for that session. Also, please do not volunteer to chair a session unless you are certain you will be attending the meeting.
Volunteers will be provided with a packet containing basic instructions and time cards to let speakers know how much time they have left.
Thank you in advance for your willingness to help!
Martin Kohlberger, SSILA Program Committee Coordinator