As a UVic professor I was very pleased to host scholars in our department, as individuals or as part of organized events.

Visiting scholars

Cindy Allen, LLB. Occasional visitor.

Carolyn Jane Anderson, BA, Fulbright Fellow, Swarthmore College, USA. Fall 2014.

Dr Keith Battarbee, University of Turku, Finland. May 2007.

Dr Sandra Chung, University of California, Santa Cruz, Lansdowne Lecturer. March 2010.

James Crippen, MA, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. March 2011.

Dr Stefan Dollinger, Department of English, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver. 2017-2018.

Dr Virginia Hill, University of New Brunswick, St John.

Dr Chiharu Uda Kikuta, Department of English, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. 2017-2018.

Dr Marguerite MacKenzie, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St Johns, NL. Occasional visitor.

Rosa Mantla, MEd, Tłı̨chǫ Community Services Agency, Behchokǫ̀, NWT. Occasional visitor.

Dr Patrick Moore, The University of British Columbia. February 2010, October 2011, February 2016.

Dr Keir Moulton, University of Toronto. August 2017.

Dr Leena Niiranen and Dr Eira Söderholm, University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway. December 2015. (Co-host with Aliki Marinakis, Indigenous Education.)

Dr Keren Rice, University of Toronto, UVic Women Scholars Lecture Series. October 2001. (Co-host with Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins.)

Dr Elizabeth Ritter, University of Calgary, Lansdowne Lecturer. March 2007.

Dr Chilin Shih, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Linguistics Colloquium Series. November 2007.

Fibbie Tatti, MA, Delı̨nę First Nation, NWT. Occasional visitor.

Dr Edōsdi Judith Thompson, University of Northern British Columbia, Prince George. Occasional visitor. [Now faculty member, Department of Indigenous Education, University of Victoria]

Dr Nicholas Welch, Memorial University of Newfoundland. Occasional visitor.

Dr Andrea Wilhelm, University of Alberta and University of Victoria. Occasional visitor.

 

Conference and workshop organization

1987      Athabaskan Linguistics Conference, August 1987, University of Victoria, Victoria, British Columbia. Co-convenor with Keren Rice.

1990     Session on ‘voice’, Athapaskan Linguistics Conference, August 1990, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia. Co-organizer with Chad Thompson.

1991     Athapaskan Linguistics Conference, July 1991, University of California, Santa Cruz. Co-organizer with Jane McGary.

1994     University of Victoria Salish Morphosyntax Workshop, March 1994.

1995     The Morphology-Syntax Interface in Athabaskan Languages, funded by the National Science Foundation (USA), Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 1995. Proposal writer and co-organizer.

1997     Fifth Annual University of Victoria Salish Morphosyntax Workshop, February 1997.

1997     Workshop on the Structure and Constituency of the Languages of the Americas, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg. Co-organizer with Shanley Allen.

2001     UVic Workshop on Grammatical Structures in Indigenous Languages of the North/West, January 2001. Co-organizer with Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins and Suzanne Urbanczyk.

2001     Linguistics Department Graduate Student Symposium, April 2001.

2003     Workshop on Grammatical Structures of Indigenous Languages of the North/West, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, February 2003. Co-organizer with Suzanne Urbanczyk and Ewa Czaykowska-Higgins.

2003     Round Table on Aboriginal Language Pedagogy, Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, Brandon University, Manitoba, March 2003.

2004     Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, Victoria, BC, February 2004.

2005     Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation and Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, June 2005. Proposal writer and organizing committee.

2005     Dene Languages Conference, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, June 2005.

2006     Wakashan Linguistics Conference, May 2006, University of Victoria, Victoria BC. Co-organizer with Adam Werle.

Siri, Olga, Alessandro, Amy, Cold Lake, Alberta

2006     International Dene/Athabaskan Languages Conference, June 2006, Explorer Hotel, Yellowknife, NWT. Co-organizer with Elizabeth Biscaye and Dene Cultural Institute.

2007     Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives Japanese Linguistics Forum, University of  Victoria, March 2007. Co-organizer with interdisciplinary committee of six.

2010     Student Paper Contest and Student Poster Contest, Canadian Linguistic Association annual meeting, Montréal, May 2010.

2011       Workshop on Relative Clauses, Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, June 2011. Organizing committee.

2012       Athabaskan Languages Conference, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA, August 2012. Grant writer/ contributor with Sharon Hargus and Edward Vajda.

2013     Canadian Linguistic Association annual meeting, Congress 2013, Victoria, BC, June 2013. Local organizing committee.

2014     Phonetic Building Blocks of Speech conference, University of Victoria, September 2014. Organizing committee.

2015     Language in the Present workshop, University of Victoria, September 2015. Co-organizer with Heather Bliss.

I also organized a number of workshops and research forums for colleagues and graduate students in the Department of Linguistics, University of Victoria, mostly recently in September 2017 and April 2018.