The Department of Linguistics at the University of Chicago is organizing a conference in honor of Amy Dahlstrom, Associate Professor Emeritus in the Department of Linguistics and in the College. The conference will be an occasion to honor Amy’s work and her contributions to the University, where she retired in the Winter quarter 2024 after having taught almost continuously since 1989.
Location: Harper Memorial, Room 130
Linguistic and Cultural Explorations of Indigenous America
A Celebration of Amy Dahlstrom
9:00 – 9:15
Opening
9:15 – 9:45
Lucy Thomason
Dangerous Ground: Thought-Provoking Motifs, Words, and Phrases in a Sauk-Meskwaki Text
9:45 – 10:15
Cherry Meyer
Semantic Effects of Certain VII Finals on Medials in Ojibwe
10:15 – 10:45
Corinne Kasper
LDA in Potawatomi
Break
11:15 – 1:45
Ana Vilacy Galucio (zoom)
Integrating language documentation, description and revitalization in Brazil
11:45 – 12:15
Irene Appelbaum (zoom)
Obligatory Obviation in Ktunaxa
Lunch
2:00 – 2:30
Anthony F. Buccini
Homard à l’américaine or à l’armoricaine?: Cultural Appropriation, Collective Amnesia, and the Forgotten Haitian Origins of an Haute Cuisine Dish
2:30 – 3:00
Eduardo Rivail Ribeiro
Karajá (Brazil) as a Macro-Jê language: notes on the interplay between
descriptive and historical linguistics
3:00 – 3:30
Yolanda Pushetonequa
Community language revitalization in Meskwaki
Break
4:00 – 4:30
Robert E. Lewis Jr.
The Order of Particles in Potawatomi
4:30 – 5:00
Monica Macaulay
Comparatives and Superlatives IN Menominee and ABOUT Amy
5:00 – 5:30
Closing
6:00 – 8:00
Dinner Reception in Classics 110
Bonus tribute by Ives Goddard: Three Algonquian Words for ‘Woman