Foundation for Endangered
Languages
VI International Conference
“Endangered Languages and their Literatures: Building a Past for the Future”
Antigua, Guatemala, 8-10 August 2002
[ Call for Abstracts/en español]
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Conference Program
Thursday, August 8: Morning
9:00-12:00
Excursion
to San Antonio Aguas Calientes
Thursday, August 8: Afternoon
2:00-3:30
Section 1: Strategies and
Resources
Nicholas
Ostler, Moderator
Joel
Sherzer Keynote Address:
AILLA (ailla.org): Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America
Monica
Ward, The
Pedagogical and Linguistic Issues Involved in Production Of EL Materials: A Case Study of
Nawat
J.E.
Lonergan, A
Tarahumara-English Computational Semantic Lexicon
4:00-5:00
Section 2: Orthographies
Joel
Sherzer, Moderator
Michal
Brody, To
the Letter: A Microanalysis of
Currently
Contested Graphemes in the Maya of
Yucatan
Pamela
Innes, I
can't read that way of writing:
Linguistic
and Indigenous Systems clash in the
Apache
Language Revitalization Project
Friday, August 9: Morning
9:00-10:00
Section 3: Proverbs, Metaphor
and Poetics
Maurizio
Gnerre, Moderator
Jule
Gómez de García, "If
you play with fire…":
Literary
Production in Jicarilla Apache
Jocelyn
Ahlers, Cognitive
Metaphor in Language
Revitalization
10:30 -12:00
Section 4: EL Literatures
& Education
Flavia
Cuturi, Moderator
Joseph
Blythe & Frances
Kofod,
Literature for the
Semi-literate:
Issues for Emerging Literacies
in the Kimberley Region of North-Western Australia
Norman
Thomson & Jepkorir Chepyator-Thomson,
The
Role of Educators as Biological, Cultural, and
Language
Exterminators: Teaching for Creativity,
Measuring
for Conformity
Mary
Morgan & Deepa Gurung, Languages
Worth
Writing:
Endangered Languages of Nepal
Friday, August 9: Afternoon
12:00-2:00
Annual General Meeting
3:00-4:30
Section 5: Open Session: Local Presenters
Ajpub' Pablo García Ixmatá, Moderator
Saturday, August 10: Morning
9:30-10:30
Section 6: Oral Literatures
I: Collection
Louanna
Furbee, Moderator
Vianor
Pérez Rivera (Iguaniginape Kungiler), La
experiencia
de recopilar el conocimiento Kuna
David R. Margolin, Marcela Carías, Suyapa Dilworth, & Carmen Palacios, The
Symbolic Value of Oral Literature for the Revitalization of Tawahka
11:00-12:00
Section 7: Open Session/Local
Presenters
José
Arnulfo Simón Sucuc, Moderator
José
Arnulfo Simón Sucuc,
Estudio
de habilidades lingüísticas de niños y niñas hablantes maya y hablantes castellano del
área rural
Saturday, August 10: Afternoon
2:00-3:00
Section 8: Oral Literatures
II: Diffusion
Vincent
Stanzione, Moderator
Andrew E. Lieberman &Jacinto de Paz Pérez, The
Blossoming of our Ancestor's Words: Oral TraditionCollected and Published by Mayan
Students
Nadine Grimm & Laura Martin, Strategies
for Promoting Endangered Language Literatures Outside Their Local Communities
3:30 - 5:00
Section 9: Mayan Literature
Gaspar
Pedro González, Moderator
María
Luz García and Marta Cobo Raymundo, Bajo
la montaña: Women's Stories of la violencia
Janferie
Stone, Maya
Poetics: Renaissance in Continuity
Christopher
Hadfield, A
Tissue of Lies: History versus Myth in the Nature of Time
Saturday, August 10: Evening
5:30-7:00 Mayan
Poetry Reading & Reception
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