Conference: Sharing Knowledge about Language and Environmental Change

会议：分享有关语言和环境变化的知识

• 批准号: 1907979
• 负责人: Alice Taff
• 金额: $ 9.85万
• 依托单位: Sealaska Heritage Institute
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2019-09-15 至 2023-02-28
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1907979&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Conference; Sharing; Knowledge; about; Language

This award supports a multidisciplinary conference that brings together participants from three Alaska Native language communities (Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian) together with Indigenous and non-Indigenous academics to generate data that supports resilience and tracks language viability. The Native American Languages Act, passed by the U.S. Congress in 1990, recognizes the unique status and value of Native American languages. These three communities have experienced significant environmental and social change, and each has survived; with the lessons from these experiences embedded in languages, offering valuable insight into cultural resilience and the potential to define new research questions. Broader impacts of the conference include increased opportunity to engage underrepresented Alaska Native youth in STEM, the potential to foster new and innovative research collaborations, and the video recordings of conference presentations, which will be publicly available online for broad dissemination. The "Sharing Our Knowledge" (SOK) conference provides a venue for interaction between Indigenous language speakers, learners, and scientists from a variety of disciplines, including anthropology, linguistics, ecology, meteorology and hydrology. SOK encourages and documents the use of Indigenous languages throughout the conference, including usage surrounding the wide range of participating disciplines. Attendees are primed to examine concepts in the three languages. These activities are in line with convergent, transdisciplinary approaches underlying other initiatives, including the Big Ideas at the National Science Foundation. Face to face interactions at the conference enable participants to draw on their diverse backgrounds to investigate regional social and environmental issues and inform resilience-based approaches for future planning in regional and other Indigenous communities. The public availability of presentations contributes to the enhancement and improvement of STEM by stimulating Alaska Native language use, as well as document, and disseminate cutting-edge exchanges of information concerning historic, current and future resilience among participating Alaska Indigenous nations in the face of numerous changes.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项支持一个多学科会议，将来自阿拉斯加三个土著语言社区(Tlingit、Haida和Tsimshian)的参与者与土著和非土著学者聚集在一起，生成支持复原力和跟踪语言生存能力的数据。美国国会1990年通过的《美洲原住民语言法案》承认了美国原住民语言的独特地位和价值。这三个社区经历了重大的环境和社会变化，每个社区都幸存了下来；从这些经历中吸取的教训植根于语言之中，为了解文化复原力和确定新的研究问题的潜力提供了宝贵的见解。会议的更广泛影响包括增加在STEM中吸纳人数不足的阿拉斯加原住民青年的机会，促进新的和创新的研究合作的潜力，以及会议发言的录像，这些录像将在网上公开供广泛传播。“分享我们的知识”(SOK)会议为讲土著语言的人、学习者和来自不同学科的科学家提供了一个互动的场所，包括人类学、语言学、生态学、气象学和水文学。SOK在整个会议期间鼓励并记录土著语言的使用，包括围绕广泛参与学科的使用。与会者做好了用这三种语言检查概念的准备。这些活动与其他倡议背后的汇聚、跨学科的方法是一致的，包括国家科学基金会的大想法。会议上的面对面互动使与会者能够利用他们的不同背景来调查区域社会和环境问题，并为区域和其他土著社区的未来规划提供基于复原力的方法。通过鼓励阿拉斯加土著语言的使用，以及在参与的阿拉斯加土著民族之间记录和传播有关历史、当前和未来面对众多变化的复原力的前沿信息交流，公开演讲有助于加强和改进STEM。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的智力优势和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，被认为值得支持。