Sessions in which Douglas Wharram participates
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- Starting the big conversation: a gathering about Inuit archives - Anita Kora, Mark Turner, Jennelle Doyle, Brendan Griebel, Jessica Kotierk, Kyle Crotty, Heather Campbell, James Gorton, Jameson C. Brant, Sarah Gauntlett, Manitok Thompson, Douglas Wharram
- Moderator Mark Turner (OKâlaKatiget Society & Memorial University of Newfoundland) | Participant Jennelle Doyle | Participant Brendan Griebel | Moderator Anita Kora | Participant Jessica Kotierk (Nunavut Film Development Corp.) | Participant Kyle Crotty (Nunatsiavut Government) | Participant Heather Campbell (Library and Archives Canada) | Participant James Gorton (Hudson's Bay Company Archives) | Participant Sarah Gauntlett (Avataq Cultural Institute) | Participant Manitok Thompson | Participant Douglas Wharram (Memorial University) | Participant Jameson C. Brant (Canadian Museum of History) |
- 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM | 2 hours Part of: Archives 3
- Inuit are no strangers to the materials and practices of archives. This is visible all across Inuit Nunaat: in the arts, genealogy, in politic...
- Workshop
Sessions in which Douglas Wharram attends
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Bilingual Education across the Inuit Homeland - Shelley Tuloch & Yasmine Charara Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Amphitheatre (SH-2800)
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Inuit across the Arctic have been working for fifty or more years to implement an effective bilingual curriculum. Goals of the bilingual programs i...
- Panel
- Book Fair (Thursday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 3:00 PM | 6 hours
- Public Event
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Pisulaurtaa! Let’s go for a walk! (Walking Tour 2hrs/4.5km) - Christopher Fletcher & Annie Pisuktie
- 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM | 2 hours
- Inuit have been making their place, coming and going, living and working in Montreal for generations. Since the signing of the James Bay and Northe...
- Walking Tour
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- The Practice of Digital Return in Nunatsiavut - Mark David Turner and Kyle Crotty
- Participant Mark Turner (OKâlaKatiget Society & Memorial University of Newfoundland) | Participant Kyle Crotty (Nunatsiavut Government) |
- 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Bringing it Back: The Reclamation of Inuit Digital Collections, Archives and Knowledge - Brendan Griebel & Sean Guistini
- Since the beginning of the Tradition & Transition Among the Labrador Inuit Research Partnership in 2015, the Nunatsiavut Government and Mem...
- Talk
- Inuktut as a Human Right - Aluki Kotierk & Louis Tapardjuk DoubleTree par Hilton Montréal - Soprano C (on Level 4)
- 1:45 PM - 3:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Panel
4:00 PM
4:00 PM
- Opening Ceremony Pavillion Henry F. Hall Building, Concordia University - DB Clarke Theatre
- 4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | 30 minutes
6:00 PM
6:00 PM
- iNuit Blanche
- 6:00 PM - 10:00 PM | 4 hours
- Following on the success of the world's first all-night festival of Inuit art, music, dance, performance, installation, food and film held durin...
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Linguistics 1 Sainte-Catherine Pavilion (V) - V-R820
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- The Words of the Inuit: Underlying Significations under Current Meanings - Louis-Jacques Dorais
- Participant Louis-Jacques Dorais |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 1
- In Inuktitut and other Inuit languages, when lexicological analysis combines morphosemantics (deciphering the original signification of a word thro...
- Talk
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- When translation fails: Pinpointing “past tense” meanings with speakers of St. Lawrence Island Yupik - Sylvia L.R. Schreiner
- Participant Sylvia Schriener |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 1
- In this talk I describe my work with speakers of St. Lawrence Island Yupik to better document the meanings of two morphemes that are optionally use...
- Talk
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Lunch (provided) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Promotion of Inuktut / Uqausirmut Quviasutiqarniq (celebration of language) - Tocassie Burke
- Participant Burke Tocasie (Government of Nunavut) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 2: Revitalization 1
- Teaching language through Culture What is Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq? Uqausirmut Quviasuutiqarniq is Nunavut’s annual celebration of Inu...
- Talk
- Mobilizing the Inuit radio show ‘Nipivut’ (Our Voice) in Montreal and Ottawa - Mark Watson, Nally Weetaluktuk, Annie Pisuktie, Sara Breitkreutz, Donna Patrick
- Participant Mark Watson | Participant Naluturuk Weetaluktuk (Nipivut) | Participant Annie Pisuktie | Participant Sara Breitkreutz |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Urban Inuit 1
- This presentation provides an introduction to, and update on, the ‘Mobilizing Nipivut’ project in Montreal and Ottawa. ‘Nipivut’, meaning ‘Our V...
- Talk
- Linguistics 2: Revitalization 1 Sainte-Catherine Pavilion (V) - V-R820
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- Legislation Promoting and Protecting Inuktut in Nunavut - Susan Enuaraq
- Participant Susan Enuaraq (Government of Nunavut) |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 2: Revitalization 1
- Nunavut is celebrating 20 years as a Territory. Inuit self-determination has been a pivotal role in creating Nunavut. Inuktut is one of the most im...
- Talk
3:30 PM
3:30 PM
- Qilaut Songwriting Contest - Saa Annie Pitsiulak
- Participant Saa Pitsiulak (Government of Nunavut) |
- 3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 2: Revitalization 1
- With the commitments of supporting the revitalization of Inuktut, Qilaut was created to celebrate Nunavut’s vibrant Inuktut music scene and promoti...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- Linguistics 3 Sainte-Catherine Pavilion (V) - V-R820
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Ajjigiinnginnatta (Because We Are Different): Linguistic Differences Between Inuktitut and Qallunaatitut, and Why It Matters - Raigelee Alorut
- Participant Raigelee Alorut (Tungasuvvingat Inuit) |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 3
- As noted by the United Nations in declaring 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages, languages play a crucial role in people's dai...
- Talk
4:45 PM
4:45 PM
- Reading by Ear: Labrador Inuit Musical Literacy and Aurality - Tom Gordon
- Participant Tom Gordon |
- 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Literacy
- Even before the first mission station had been established at Nain on the Labrador coast, the Moravians sang hymns as a way of engaging the Inuit w...
- Talk
- Material availability to teach Inuktitut languages: challenges and perspectives - Siaja Mangiuk, Passa Mangiuk, Virginie D. de la Chevrotière
- Participant Siaja Mangiuk | Participant Passa Mangiuk (Nuvviti School ) | Participant Virginie de la Chevrotière |
- 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Education 6 (Partnership research and development in improvement of educational situations and teacher training in Indigenous context perspectives)
- The wish to share Inuktitut mother tongue from generation to generation is still alive and to revitalise it is a priority to undertake. This c...
- Talk
- Productive truth: On the importance of oral accuracy in Inuit culture - Jaypeetee Arnakak, Louis-Jacques Dorais & Alana Johns
- Participant Jaypeetee Arnakak (Inhabit Education ) | Participant Louis-Jacques Dorais | Participant Alana Johns |
- 4:45 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour Part of: Education 3: Language
- In recent years, the value Inuit place on oral history has come to the forefront of broader Canadian culture, in particular with the discovery of t...
- Talk
- Morphological simplification in Inuktitut child-directed speech - Shanley Allen & Mary Elliot
- Participant Shanley Allen (University of Kaiserslautern) |
- 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 3
- Identifying words and morphemes in the stream of speech is no simple matter for young children. The challenge is particularly in a morphologically ...
- Talk
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
- Oral Transmission of Literacy - Martha MacDonald
- Participant Martha MacDonald |
- 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Literacy
- Literacy was introduced and indeed imposed by the Moravians when they arrived and set up schools in the eighteenth century. Literacy evolved and wa...
- Talk
- Century of changes - Julien Carrier
- Participant Julien Carrier |
- 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 3
- The Inuit faced numerous and important socio-cultural changes during the 20th century, such as the transition from a nomadic lifestyle to the settl...
- Talk
5:45 PM
5:45 PM
- Historical Approaches Towards Pedagogy in the Moravian Labrador Inuit Brass Bands - Mark David Turner and Nainip Tittulautingit | Nain Brass Band
- Participant Mark Turner (OKâlaKatiget Society & Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
- 5:45 PM - 6:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Literacy
- Fifty years after the widespread introduction of western European classical music by Moravian missionaries to Northern Labrador, Labrador Inuit the...
- Talk
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Book Fair (Saturday) Cœur des sciences Pavilion (CO) - Chaufferie (CO-R700)
- 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM | 8 hours
- Public Event
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Lunch (provided) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
2:30 PM
2:30 PM
- Linguistics 5: Standardization Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-2580
- 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Inuktut Language Assessments of Nunavut Government Employees - Jeela Palluq-Cloutier
- Participant Jeela Palluq-Cloutier (Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit) |
- 2:30 PM - 3:00 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 5: Standardization
- Inuit Uqausinginnik Taiguusiliuqtiit have the power “to develop, review, recommend or administer surveys or tests that evaluate Inuit Language prof...
- Talk
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
- How standard is standard? Examining the standard scores of the CELF-P2 in Northern Populations of the Beaufort Delta - Amie Hay
- Participant Amie Hay |
- 3:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 5: Standardization
- Introduction: One of the many challenges of providing Speech-Language Pathology services to Northern populations is the lack of culturally appropri...
- Talk
3:25 PM
3:25 PM
- Language standardisation and hegemony: linguistic norms and national politics - Taylor Ellis
- Participant Taylor Ellis (University of Manitoba) |
- 3:29 PM - 3:59 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 5: Standardization
- This presentation will discuss how Nunavut and the wider Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami program to standardize Inuktitut has potential adverse consequence...
- Talk
4:15 PM
4:15 PM
- Linguistics 6: Revitalization 2 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-2580
- 4:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- How language documentation and revitalization help in understanding language history, and vice versa: A case study from Unangam Tunuu (Aleut) and Sugt'stun (Pacific Coast Yupik) - Anna Berge
- Participant Anna Berge |
- 4:15 PM - 4:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 6: Revitalization 2
- Just as understanding another person’s perspective can help in one’s own life, understanding one field of study results in a better understanding o...
- Talk
4:45 PM
4:45 PM
- A description of Paallirmiutut for Speech Language Pathology: the beginnings - Martha Arnarauyak, Amie Hay & Bettina Spreng
- Participant Martha Arnarauyak | Participant Amie Hay | Participant Bettina Spreng (University of Saskatchewan) |
- 4:45 PM - 5:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 6: Revitalization 2
- This presentation reports on the beginning stages of a three-part project for Paallirmiutut, spoken in Arviat, Nunavut. Paallirmiututis actively sp...
- Talk
5:15 PM
5:15 PM
- Inuttut Ilivallianik Café: Adult Intermediate Inuttut Group - Shirley Jararuse, Alana Johns & Amos Suarak
- Participant Shirley Jararuse (Nunatsiavut Government) | Participant Alana Johns |
- 5:15 PM - 5:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 6: Revitalization 2
- Context: Most Indigenous communities across Canada and internationally are struggling for language retention within their communities. There is ...
- Talk
9:00 AM
9:00 AM
- Linguistics 7: Revitalization 3 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3260
- 9:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Preservation and Revitalization of Inuit Sign Language - Paige MacDougall, Sandy Kownak, James MacDougall & Clayton Ungungai
- Participant Paige MacDougall (Nunavut Deaf Society (NDS)) | Participant Sandy Kownak (Nunavut Deaf Society (NDS)) | Participant Jamie MacDougall |
- 9:00 AM - 9:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 7: Revitalization 3
- The Inuit Sign Language (ISL) projects create materials representing the experiences of deaf Nunavummiut who use Inuit Sign Language. Stories revea...
- Talk
9:30 AM
9:30 AM
- An Inuktut Language Revitalization Survey - Kumiko Murasugi and Robyn Martin
- Participant Kumiko Murasugi (Carleton University) | Participant Robyn Martin (Nunatsiavut Government - Dept of Culture Recreation and Tourism) |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 7: Revitalization 3
- Central to Inuktut language maintenance and revitalization is promoting the use of Inuktut among fluent speakers, and providing language learnin...
- Talk
- The IkKaumajammik Project: Adult Drama Groups in Nunatsiavut - Tim Borlase & Martha MacDonald
- Participant Tim Borlase | Participant Martha MacDonald |
- 9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Health 7
- In 2014, President Johannes Lampe of the Nunatsiavut Government returned from the filming of Abraham’s Diary in which he participated as a pre...
- Talk
10:00 AM
10:00 AM
- Grand Theft Anglo: the English take-over of Iqaluit and the decline of Inuktut - Derek Rasmussen
- Participant Derek Rasmussen (Simon Fraser University) |
- 10:00 AM - 10:30 AM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 7: Revitalization 3
- Nunavut is the only jurisdiction in Canada that has a homogeneous language spoken by the taxpaying majority that is other than French or Engli...
- Talk
11:45 AM
11:45 AM
- Lunch (provided) Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - Multi-purpose room (SH-4800)
- 11:45 AM - 1:15 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
1:15 PM
1:15 PM
- In order to know where you are going, you have to know where you have been - Brenda Amak&ak Putulik
- Participant Brenda Putulik (Nunavut Arctic College) |
- 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 8: Writing
- Oral Inuit speaking communication vs reading and writing communication and why it is important to know the history of the writing systems and under...
- Talk
- Linguistics 9 Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3720
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
- Variation de sens des morphèmes fonctionnels de l'inuktitut du Sud de Baffin : le cas du morphème -liq- - Nora Villeneuve
- Participant Nora Villeneuve |
- 1:15 PM - 1:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 9
- Dans l'article Determining the semantics of postbases, Cook et Johns (2009) proposent que le sens des morphèmes fonctionnels de l'inuktitut ...
- Talk
- Starting the big conversation: a gathering about Inuit archives - Anita Kora, Mark Turner, Jennelle Doyle, Brendan Griebel, Jessica Kotierk, Kyle Crotty, Heather Campbell, James Gorton, Jameson C. Brant, Sarah Gauntlett, Manitok Thompson, Douglas Wharram
- Moderator Mark Turner (OKâlaKatiget Society & Memorial University of Newfoundland) | Participant Jennelle Doyle | Participant Brendan Griebel | Moderator Anita Kora | Participant Jessica Kotierk (Nunavut Film Development Corp.) | Participant Kyle Crotty (Nunatsiavut Government) | Participant Heather Campbell (Library and Archives Canada) | Participant James Gorton (Hudson's Bay Company Archives) | Participant Sarah Gauntlett (Avataq Cultural Institute) | Participant Manitok Thompson | Participant Douglas Wharram (Memorial University) | Participant Jameson C. Brant (Canadian Museum of History) |
- 1:15 PM - 3:15 PM | 2 hours Part of: Archives 3
- Inuit are no strangers to the materials and practices of archives. This is visible all across Inuit Nunaat: in the arts, genealogy, in politic...
- Workshop
- Linguistics 8: Writing Sherbrooke Pavilion (SH) - SH-3260
- 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
- Session
1:45 PM
1:45 PM
- Typing in Inuit Languages on Mobile Devices - Chieu Nguyen, Theresa Breiner, Evan Crew, & Manasa Prasad
- Participant Chieu Nguyen (Google Japan G.K.) |
- 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 8: Writing
- As part of its mission to allow users around the world to type in their native languages, Gboard, Google’s mobile keyboard app, has extended suppor...
- Talk
- Consonant gemination in West Greenlandic - Alex Stefanelli
- Participant Alex Stefanelli |
- 1:45 PM - 2:15 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 9
- There is a notable divergence across the Inuit dialect continuum regarding possible types of consonant clusters. Moving eastward, increasing restri...
- Talk
2:15 PM
2:15 PM
- Ammalu and -lu: A split-structure analysis of conjunction in Inuktitut - Matthew Schuurman
- Participant Matthew Schuurman (Université du Quebec à Montreal) |
- 2:15 PM - 2:45 PM | 30 minutes Part of: Linguistics 9
- Talk