Endangered Languages in America


A symposium in honor of Durbin Feeling
University Hall 056
Saturday, March 20, 2004


1pm - welcome
1:20 - Linguists and Archives as Community Resources. Doug Whalen, (Haskins Laboratories, Yale Department of Lingusitics and The Endangered Languages Fund)

2:00 - The Peripatetic Life of an Oklahoma Linguist. Marcia Haag, (Department of Modern Languages, Literature, and Linguistics, University of Oklahoma)

2:40 - break

3:00 - Why work with the last living speaker of a language? Catherine Callaghan, (Department of Linguistics, Ohio State University)

3:40 - New tricks for an old dog: using video for Creek and Miccosukee language instruction. Jack Martin, (Department of English, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia).

4:20 - wrap-up discussion

Support for this symposium was provided by these units at Ohio State:
    Department of Linguistics
    Endangered and Minority Language and Culture Study Group of
    the Institute for Collaborative Research and the Public Humanities
    Kirwan Institute on Race and Ethnicity
    Committee for Native American Studies