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DAY 1

THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2012

Segal Theater, CUNY Graduate Center

365 Fifth Avenue

New York City

8:00am-9:00am         Registration, coffee & tea

9:00am-9:30am         Opening Remarks, Blessings & Karakia

9:30am-10:30am       Dr. Tīmoti Kāretu, Māori; Tūhoe, Ngāti Kahungunu

10:30am-11:15am     Jeanette Armstrong, Okanagan; En’owkin Centre

11:15am-11:30am     Coffee break and refreshments

11:30am-12:15pm     Bernard Spolsky, Bar-Ilan University

12:15pm-1:00pm       Eladio Mateo Toledo (B’alam), CIESAS-Sureste, México.

1:00pm-2:00pm         Lunch break

2:00pm-2:45pm         Jonty Yamisha, Circassian, Nassip Foundation

2:45pm-3:30pm         Elsa Stamatopoulou, Columbia University

3:30pm-3:45pm         Coffee break and refreshments

3:45pm-4:45pm         Jesse Little Doe Baird, Wôpanâak Tribe

4:45pm-5:00pm         Closing Remarks

DAY 1 – Evening Program

THURSDAY 31 MAY 2012

National Museum of the American Indian

Auditorium

One Bowling Green, New York City

6.30pm-8:00pm         Reception and Ceremony in Honor of Dr. Joshua Fishman

Short film:  Bridges of Books (English/Yiddish)

8:00pm-8:10pm         Intermission

8:10pm-9:45pm         Māori Language Revitalization in the Media

Screening: Mata Hou (Māori/English)

Roundtable with film maker Robert Pouwhare, Dr. Tīmoti Kāretu, Dr. Wharehuia Milroy and Professor Tania Ka’ai, moderator

DAY 2

FRIDAY, 1 JUNE 2012

National Museum of the American Indian

Auditorium

One Bowling Green, New York City

9:00am-9:15am            Opening Remarks,  Karakia & Drum Circle

9:15am-3:00pm            Poster session*

10:00am-11:00am         “Endangered Languages and Language Revitalization”

                                       UNESCO New York, Phillipe Kridelka (Director)

11:00am-12:00pm        “Recovering Voices: Using the Collections”

                                       The Smithsonian Institution, Dr Gabriela Pérez Báez

12:00pm-1:00pm          “Language Revitalization: Technology and Learning”

                                       AUT’s International Centre for Language Revitalisation,

                                      Dr Wharehuia Milroy QSO, Hana ORegan, Dr Leilani Basham, and Professor Tania Ka’ai

1:00pm-2:00pm            Lunch break – Poster session continues*

2:00pm-2:45pm          Short films: The Amendment, Kevin Papatie (Algonquin); Our First Voices Series, (Canada); Horse You See, Melissa Henry (Navajo); Writing the Land, Kevin Lee Burton (Swampy Cree).

2:45pm-3:00pm            Coffee, tea and refreshments – Poster session continues*

3:00pm-4.40pm            Feature film: We Still Live Here - Âs Nutayuneân

                                 Roundtable with Anne Makepeace (Writer/Director), Jessie Little Doe Baird, Jennifer Weston (Hunkpapa Lakota) and Elizabeth Weatherford (NMAI Film & Video Center), moderated by Professor Juliette Blevins (CUNY Graduate Center)

4:40pm-5:00pm            Waiata, Karakia and Closing Blessing

*Authors will attend their posters 9:15am-9:55am, 1:15pm-1:55pm and 2:45pm-3:00pm