Talk Story Sessions and Workshops

Following a format introduced at the ICLDC 2017, we are including a 90-minute block on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to be dedicated to two alternative conference activities: Workshops and Talk Story sessions.  
                                
Talk Story Sessions
Introduced at ICLDC 2017 in response to participant feedback, ICLDC 2019 will again have “Talk Story” sessions. These discussions will be led by an expert discussant and limited to 20-30 attendees per session. Each Talk Story will be repeated on three days of the conference, allowing ample opportunity for conference attendees to participate in the Talk Story sessions of their choice. Talk Story sessions are meant to be fully interactive for participants, rather than a one-directional presentation of information. This format may be particularly appropriate for discussion of the challenges of technology and its role in language reclamation and language documentation.
                    
Workshops
We also welcome proposals for Workshops on topics broadly relating to language and technology, particularly where it impacts communities. Each 90-minute workshop will be held twice over three days of the conference, allowing multiple opportunities for interested attendees to participate. Workshops will accommodate a larger number of participants and are intended to be more presentational and instructional in style than the Talk Story sessions. Appropriate workshop topics will be related to the conference theme and may include instruction in use of software tools, development of new software tools, development of web technologies, novel methods for digital hardware tools, etc.
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Talk Story Sessions:


 Connecting technology and language revitalization from a community-based perspective
This Talk Story session will create a collaborative learning space for attendees to engage in open dialogue about their experiences using technology in a community-based setting for language revitalization and maintenance. A live demonstration of FirstVoices.com, First Peoples’ Cultural Council’s online language archiving and learning resource will also be provided.
Presenter(s): Britt Dunlop and Daniel Yona
Britt Dunlop
First Peoples’ Cultural Council
Language Programs Associate
Daniel Yona
​First Peoples’ Cultural Council
FirstVoices Development
Leveraging technology to recirculate songs in endangered languages
Presenter(s): Dr. Clint Bracknell and Dr. Linda Barwick
Immersing Our Homes and Relationships: A discussion of the successes and struggles of heritage language transmission
This Talk Story space serves to inform and empower second-language speakers to create, sustain and expand immersion moments throughout their homes.  We will discuss what realities of language transmission we face as we raise our children in Seneca and Mohawk language, then reflect on the action and resources needed to ultimately raise future first-language speakers in our communities. ​
Presenter(s): Whitney Nephew, Kawenniióstha Nicole Martin, and Yeya’tón:nis Alexis Martin.
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Whitney Nephew is a Cayuga descendent from the Seneca-Cayuga of Oklahoma, and lives with her husband Jordan Garrow (Seneca, Bear Clan) and daughter, Mira, on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation.  Whitney is in her third year studying  Onödowa'ga:' / Seneca language with the Deadiwënöhsnye's Program, a fully-immersed setting.  She has committed to parenting exclusively in Onödowa'ga:' since Mira was approximately nine months old.
 
Mira Garrow is the daughter of Whitney Nephew and Jordan Garrow, and is a descendent of the Seneca Nation.  Her home is on the Cattaraugus Territory of the Seneca Nation, where she is acquiring both English and Seneca language.  Mira will turn three in May 2019, and enjoys swimming, drawing, singing, taking care of her pets, and cooking delicious fake food.
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Kawenniióstha Nicole Martin is of the Mohawk Nation, Wolf Clan.  She was raised on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory in Southern Ontario.  She grew up in community in an English speaking home, receiving formal teachings in grade school.  After entering motherhood, a revelation was prioritizing life choices, and creating a circle of language support in the community for self & daughter.  A former Mohawk language student then teacher, she is currently working beside community members in the Seneca Nation with revitalization efforts.
Yeya’tón:nis Alexis Martin is the daughter of Kawenniióstha, raised on Six Nations of the Grand River Territory.  She attended Kawenni:io immersion grade school beginning at age three.  Currently residing with her mother on Ohi:yo’, the Allegany Territory of the Seneca Nation.  She is a Senior in high school, and is in her second year of learning a sister language of the Haudenosaunee- Seneca.
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Talking about child language documentation: Experiences, barriers, methods & outcomes
Presenter(s): Dr. Barbara Kelly 
Decolonizing Indigenous Language Technologies:
Centering Communities and Their Languages in Technology
Presenter(s): Dr. Wesley Leonard, Dr. Megan Lukaniec , and Adrienne Tsikewa
Ideologies about Hawaiian Language Revitalization and Reclamation
Presenter(s): Puamohala Kneubuhl Hina and Haʻalilio Williams-Solomon

Workshops:
Documenting and sharing ethnoastronomical knowledge with Stellarium: a hands-on workshop
Presenter(s): Dr. Konrad Rybka
Rapid Word Collection Workshops: Why & how to do them
Presenters build on experience conducting a 2015 Rapid Word Collection (RWC) workshop to explain using FLEx https://software.sil./fieldworks/ to gather words for a dictionary. Install FLEx before you come. Workshop outline: 1) expected results, 2) roles and logistics, 3) group semantic domain word collection, 4) debrief, Q&A, referrals to lexicography resources. 

Presenter(s): Dr. Brenda Boerger and Jeremiah Aviel
Accelerating the analysis of your audio recordings with Untrained Forced Speech Alignment
Presenter(s): Dr. Ronaldo Coto-Solano, Dr Sally Akevai (Ake) Nicholas, Dr. Samantha Wray, and Dr. Tyler Peterson
Brenda Boerger
Jeremiah Aviel
Bloom: Now Communities Can Create Their Own Books
Presenter(s): John Hatton 
Introduction to Mukurtu CMS: Connecting and Sharing Cultural Collections and Language Materials
Presenter(s): Dr. Kimberly Christen, Michael Wynne and Alana Pollack
Developing Digital Tools for Language Revitalization: Project Planning & the ABCs of Coding
Presenter(s): Aidan Pine and Dr. Mark Turin
Transcription Acceleration for Language Documentation with ELPIS
Presenter(s): Ben Foley and Nay Myo San
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Support for the 2019 ICLDC Workshops and Talk Story Sessions is provided by the National Science Foundation under grant BCS-1745711. Any opinions, findings and conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Science Foundation.