Draft Agenda as of 9/02/05

UW BREATH OF LIFE* 2005

PACIFIC NORTHWEST NATIVE LANGUAGES ARCHIVES WORKSHOP

University of Washington,  Department of Linguistics

September 12-16, 2005

Allen Auditorium, Allen Library, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

 

 

Day

Time

Activity

Mon.

9/12/05

 

8:30

Greetings. "Take back and give back."

Moment of remembrance for Dr. Dale Kinkade and others.

9:00

Alvin Fritz - general library resource/use/policy.

10:00

Snack, Suzzallo Café.

10:15

Walking tour, small groups, each led by a librarian.

11:00

Laurel Sercombe - ethnomusicology archives.

11:30

Introduction to using UW Special Collections.

Form language teams to fill out Reader Registration and Project Description forms.

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Archives work in teams:

    Compare writing systems.

    Develop individual or group project topic.

    Consider alternate language names that might be found in the archives.

    Find your language materials.

4:00

Archives close.

Evening

Work on individual/team project.

Tues.

9/13/05

8:30

Address issues. Update agenda.

List project topics.

9:00

Alvin Fritz - computer presentation with participant hands-on work. Each person has a computer and follows along so they have actual experience in using the various databases. Suzzallo Instruction Lab, 32 spaces.

10:00

Snack, Suzzallo Café.

10:15

Suzzallo Instruction Lab, stay and play.

10:45

Melville Jacobs Collection history. Bill Seaburg, Associate

Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences.

11:30

UW film archives, Nicolette Bromberg, UW Visual Materials Curator

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Archives work in language group teams.

    Develop a thumbnail sketch of each of the languages based on how various features of the language compare with English?  We don’t mean to be Anglocentric about this; we just want to go from a language that we all have in common to show a bit about how each of the NW languages works.

4:00

Archives close.

Evening

Work on individual/team project.

Wed.

9/14/05

8:30

Address issues. Update agenda.

9:00

Roundtable, with BoL participants, archives staff, perhaps a couple members of the Jacobs Board of Trustees, to discuss the problems inherent in non-release, and possibilities for change and movement regarding tribal members who wish to access ethnographic research of their own people and language.

10:00

Snack, Suzzallo Café.

10:15

Jason Roberts - intro to "cleaning up" old recordings.

Website with list of movies and videos on language revitalization.

What other institutions have NW language archives?

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Archives work in teams.

 

Restore recordings with Jason.

4:00

Archives close

6:00

BoL get-together in Haggett Hall (the dorm where participants are staying.) Bring food, drums, songs, dances, stories, games.

Evening

Work on individual/team project.

Thurs.

9/15/05

8:30

Address issues. Update agenda.

9:00

UW Dept. of Lingusitics Indigenous language research

    Ben Barrett keyboard mapping.

    Alice Taff - language documentation.

Restore recordings with Jason.

10:00

Snack, Suzzallo Café.

10:15

(Maybe) Tony Johnson, Grand Ronde, presenting language revitalization work that produces speakers.

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Archives work in teams.

Restore recordings with Jason.

Keyboard mapping with Ben Barrett.

4:00

Archives close

Evening

Work on individual/team project.

Fri.

9/16/05

8:30

Address issues. Update agenda.

9:00

 

10:00

Snack, Suzzallo Café.

10:15

 

12:00

Lunch

1:00

Present individual and group projects.

Evaluate BoL.

3:55

Farewells.

*Title based on the name of an equivalent workshop at the University of California at Berkeley where it is co-sponsored by the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival.