Draft Agenda as of
9/02/05
UW BREATH OF LIFE* 2005
Day
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Time |
Activity |
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Mon. 9/12/05 |
8:30 |
Greetings.
"Take back and give back." |
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Moment
of remembrance for Dr. Dale Kinkade and others. |
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9:00 |
Alvin
Fritz - general library resource/use/policy. |
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10:00 |
Snack,
Suzzallo Café. |
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10:15 |
Walking
tour, small groups, each led by a librarian. |
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11:00 |
Laurel
Sercombe - ethnomusicology archives. |
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11:30 |
Introduction
to using UW Special Collections. |
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Form
language teams to fill out Reader Registration and Project Description forms. |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
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|
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. |
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4:00 |
Archives
close. |
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Evening |
Work
on individual/team project. |
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Tues. 9/13/05 |
8:30 |
Address
issues. Update agenda. |
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List
project topics. |
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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. |
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10:00 |
Snack,
Suzzallo Café. |
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|
10:15 |
Suzzallo Instruction Lab, stay and play. |
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10:45 |
Melville
Jacobs Collection history. Bill Seaburg, Associate Professor, Interdisciplinary Arts
& Sciences. |
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|
11:30 |
UW
film archives, Nicolette Bromberg, UW Visual Materials Curator |
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|
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. |
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4:00 |
Archives
close. |
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|
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. |
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10:00 |
Snack,
Suzzallo Café. |
|
|
10:15 |
Jason
Roberts - intro to "cleaning up" old recordings. |
|
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Website
with list of movies and videos on language revitalization. |
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What other institutions have NW language archives? |
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|
12:00 |
Lunch |
|
|
1:00 |
Archives
work in teams. |
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|
|
Restore
recordings with Jason. |
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4:00 |
Archives
close |
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|
6:00 |
BoL
get-together in Haggett Hall (the dorm where participants are staying.) Bring
food, drums, songs, dances, stories, games. |
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Evening |
Work
on individual/team project. |
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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. |
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Restore
recordings with Jason. |
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|
10:00 |
Snack,
Suzzallo Café. |
|
|
10:15 |
(Maybe)
Tony Johnson, Grand Ronde, presenting language revitalization work that
produces speakers. |
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12:00 |
Lunch |
|
|
1:00 |
Archives
work in teams. |
|
|
Restore
recordings with Jason. |
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Keyboard
mapping with Ben Barrett. |
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|
4:00 |
Archives
close |
|
|
Evening |
Work
on individual/team project. |
|
|
Fri. 9/16/05 |
8:30 |
Address
issues. Update agenda. |
|
9:00 |
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|
10:00 |
Snack,
Suzzallo Café. |
|
|
10:15 |
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|
12:00 |
Lunch |
|
|
1:00 |
Present
individual and group projects. |
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Evaluate
BoL. |
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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.