Date

Conference Announcement
"Orality in the XXIst Century: Inuit Discourse and Practices"
15th International Inuit Studies Conference
26-28 October 2006
Paris, France

Abstract Submission Deadline: Wednesday, 15 February 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.

Conference topics will include:
- Today's status of orality in its geographic diversity
- Reactivating orality/passing down knowledge
- Verbal arts/cultural heritage
- Methodological problems in analyzing orality
- Relations between oral and written practices
- History and social memory
- Landscapes and oral tradition
- New spaces and discursive practices
- Linguistic change/shifting structures
- Semantics and cognition

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)