University at Buffalo (UB)
Digital Engagement with Endangered Languages and their Communities
October 13, 10:15-5:30, Silverman Library 310
Erin Debenport, Eladio Mateo Toledo, Jesse Stewart, X̱'unei Lance Twitchell
This presentation will focus on the intertwining of technology and social movement creation in order to facilitate language reclamation movements. Using examples from Alaska and Hawaiʻi, the presenter will offer thoughts on language movement creation and maintenance, and will address the realities and hardships of decolonial language reclamation movements that rely on cyclical and ongoing analyses of patterns and change at the micro (individuals & families), meso (local and regional), and macro (state, national, and international) levels.
Digital Engagement with Endangered Languages and their Communities
October 13, 10:15-5:30, Silverman Library 310
10:15 Cristanne Miller, Welcome; Kanęherathę́·čreh by Montgomery Hill (Thanksgiving Address, Traditional Haudenosaunee Opening)
10:30 Introduction (Mishuana Goeman): Erin Debenport, “Language Circulation and Control: Strategic Uses for Digital Technologies in Pueblo Reclamation Projects”
11:15 Introduction (Christian DiCanio): Eladio Mateo Toledo,“TZ'IB'MA: Phonemic digital keyboard in cell phones for Mayan languages”
12:30-2:00 buffet lunch and poster session
2:00 Introduction (Cristanne Miller): Jesse Stewart, “Media Lengua in the Digital Age: A Journey of Preservation and Reclamation”
2:45 Introduction (Montgomery Hill): X̱'unei Lance Twitchell,“Replanting the Forests in Language Ecosystems”
3:30 Questions and discussion
4:30 Kanęherathęčreháh (Closing Address) by Montgomery Hill, followed by reception
