Second Call for Papers
Orality in the XXIst Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices
15th International Inuit Studies Conference
26-28 October 2006
Paris, France
Abstract Submission Deadline: Thursday, 15 June 2006
For further information, please contact the conference secretary:
gwenaele.guigon [at] inalco.fr
The 15th International Inuit Studies Conference, "Orality in the XXIst
Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices", will be held on 26-28 October
2006 in Paris, France. The working languages of the conference will be
English and French.
Please submit abstracts of 200-300 words on any of the following topics
by Thursday, 15 June 2006:
- Orality and literacy
- Verbal art--poetry, theater, music, oral literature in present context
- Oral history, life stories, sharing dreams, remembering transition to
Christianity - Inuit knowledge and anthropological discourse
- Marcel Mauss's famous paper Les variations saisonnieres
- Territory, words, and discourse
- New spaces, urban settings
- Hunting and present discourse on hunting
- Political discourse
- Laws in an oral culture
- Discourse on art and artistic practices (sculpture, drawing) and clothing
perceived as a visual language - Media, film making, cyberespace, and narration
- Eskaleut linguistics: typology, evolution, contacts, discourse
- Social approach of language, collective and individual identity,
language policies, future of Inuit language - Arctic research in human and social sciences short-term and long-term
perspectives
Organizing Committee
Michele Therrien
National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations (INALCO)
Nicole Tersis
National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Beatrice Collignon
University Paris 1 (Pantheon-Sorbonne)