CASIE Newsletter
Employment Opportunities
Please send any employment opportunities you would like to advertise here to morcoml @ queensu.ca.
Location: University of British Columbia
Position: Two tenure-stream positions in Indigenous Education
Deadline: November 15, 2015
For more information, click here.
Location: University of British Columbia
Position: Two tenure-stream positions in Indigenous Education
Deadline: November 15, 2015
For more information, click here.
Calls for Papers
Whiteness at Work: Disturbing Practices of Racism Across the Canadian Prairies
Editors: Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah Mclean, and Verna St. Denis
Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: (250-300 words): September 1, 2019
Acceptance Notification: September 2019
Full Chapters Due (3000-3500 words): December 31, 2019
whitenessatwork1@gmail.com
For more information, click here.
Editors: Amanda Gebhard, Sheelah Mclean, and Verna St. Denis
Chapter Abstract Submission Deadline: (250-300 words): September 1, 2019
Acceptance Notification: September 2019
Full Chapters Due (3000-3500 words): December 31, 2019
whitenessatwork1@gmail.com
For more information, click here.
Awards and Nominations
Indspire Guiding the Journey - Indigenous Educator Awards
Educator Awards: Any person in Canada may nominate educators who:
Organization Award: Any person in Canada may nominate organizations/schools that:
For more information, visit the Indspire website.
Educator Awards: Any person in Canada may nominate educators who:
- Demonstrate outstanding achievement in Indigenous education
- Canadian born or Permanent Canadian residents
- Practicing K-12 educators in a classroom
Organization Award: Any person in Canada may nominate organizations/schools that:
- Demonstrate outstanding achievement in Indigenous education
- Canadian school, School Board or Organization
- Have practicing K-12 educators
For more information, visit the Indspire website.
External Conferences and Events
Conference Title:2019 SICC First Nations Language Keepers Gathering
Location: Saskatoon, SK
When: Nov. 6-7, 2019
Website: https://sicc.sk.ca/first-nations-language-keepers-gathering/
Annually in November, the SICC hosts its First Nations Language Keepers Gathering. It is the leading national gathering devoted to preserving, promoting and protecting First Nations languages and cultures. It brings together academics, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, master speakers, educators, community leaders and students from across Canada and the United States. It will be held in Saskatoon on November 6-7, 2019 and the theme is Our Sacred Languages Walk With Us.
Location: Saskatoon, SK
When: Nov. 6-7, 2019
Website: https://sicc.sk.ca/first-nations-language-keepers-gathering/
Annually in November, the SICC hosts its First Nations Language Keepers Gathering. It is the leading national gathering devoted to preserving, promoting and protecting First Nations languages and cultures. It brings together academics, Elders, Knowledge Keepers, master speakers, educators, community leaders and students from across Canada and the United States. It will be held in Saskatoon on November 6-7, 2019 and the theme is Our Sacred Languages Walk With Us.
Conference Title: World Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA): Symposium S082 - Language practices, Nationalism, and Indigenous language reclamation
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
When: August 9-14, 2020
Website: https://www.aila2020.nl/
Short description: This symposium will address Indigenous language reclamation interests in various contexts globally, relating Indigenous languages to nationalism and to impulses to sovereignty. Papers will address state-level language policies, as well as community practices and pedagogies. Particular attention will be given to Indigenous initiatives to reclaim local languages.
Long description: Language practices, Nationalism, and Indigenous language reclamation #S082: From the colonizer’s perspective, establishing measurable distinctiveness of Indigenous languages may be a politically useful tool, important for establishing [inter]national legitimacy for Indigenous peoples, whether those peoples seek a sovereign state or not. Within many contexts of revitalising Indigenous languages, a model of enforcing standardisation in order to justify “distinctiveness” as a recognisable language to the coloniser can have unintended consequences. The emphasis on Indigenous unity as nations existing separate from the coloniser may translate into linguistic replication of certain features and norms inherited from the coloniser. This is particularly important for written norms (Fishman, 1991; Grenoble & Whaley, 2006) where language standardisation is described as essential to meet the demands of state apparatuses and business interests. The reflexive turn towards language revitalisation (da Costa, 2016) does not reflect the interests of Indigenous communities themselves, whose members associate the coloniser’s language not only with economic mobility but also with ongoing colonization (Kouritzin & Nakagawa, 2018). In these circumstances, a local, fluid translingualism is often practiced uninterrupted by the efforts of state interventions to either promote or dissuade Indigenous language use; these practices should be promoted through language policies within Indigenous communities (Canagarajah, 2005).
Location: Groningen, The Netherlands
When: August 9-14, 2020
Website: https://www.aila2020.nl/
Short description: This symposium will address Indigenous language reclamation interests in various contexts globally, relating Indigenous languages to nationalism and to impulses to sovereignty. Papers will address state-level language policies, as well as community practices and pedagogies. Particular attention will be given to Indigenous initiatives to reclaim local languages.
Long description: Language practices, Nationalism, and Indigenous language reclamation #S082: From the colonizer’s perspective, establishing measurable distinctiveness of Indigenous languages may be a politically useful tool, important for establishing [inter]national legitimacy for Indigenous peoples, whether those peoples seek a sovereign state or not. Within many contexts of revitalising Indigenous languages, a model of enforcing standardisation in order to justify “distinctiveness” as a recognisable language to the coloniser can have unintended consequences. The emphasis on Indigenous unity as nations existing separate from the coloniser may translate into linguistic replication of certain features and norms inherited from the coloniser. This is particularly important for written norms (Fishman, 1991; Grenoble & Whaley, 2006) where language standardisation is described as essential to meet the demands of state apparatuses and business interests. The reflexive turn towards language revitalisation (da Costa, 2016) does not reflect the interests of Indigenous communities themselves, whose members associate the coloniser’s language not only with economic mobility but also with ongoing colonization (Kouritzin & Nakagawa, 2018). In these circumstances, a local, fluid translingualism is often practiced uninterrupted by the efforts of state interventions to either promote or dissuade Indigenous language use; these practices should be promoted through language policies within Indigenous communities (Canagarajah, 2005).
Celebrating Member Achievement
Congratulations to Dr. Marie Battiste for her appointment as a 2019 Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation Fellow! For more information, visit the Pierre Elliot Trudeau Foundation website.
