University of Saskatchewan and Wanuskewin Heritage Park
Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
October 28 to 30, 1993
THURSDAY, 28 OCTOBER: Afternoon
[Place Riel Theatre, University of Saskatchewan]
1:00-2:00 Registration
2:00-2:15 INTRODUCTION AND WELCOME
President George Ivany, University of Saskatchewan
Len Findlay, Director, Humanities Research Unit
2:15-3:00 ORAL TRADITIONS AND THE ACADEMY TODAY
"The View from Anthropology" R.G. Williamson (University of
Saskatchewan)
3:00-3:15 Coffee
3:15-5:15 CLASSICAL TRADITIONS
"Ex Occidente Lux: Catastrophic Volcanism in Greek and Dene Oral
Tradition" Rory Egan (University of Manitoba)
"Caging the Muses: Some Aspects of Oral and Literate Epic Narrative"
Christopher Brown (University of Western Ontario)
"Orality in the Tradition of Archaic Lyric Poetry" Alison Maingon
(University of Saskatchewan)
"Concepts of Personality in Ancient Oral Cultures: Implications for Modern
Personality Trait Theory" Theresa Skrip (University of Saskatchewan)
THURSDAY, 28 OCTOBER: Evening
[Oak Room, Park Town Motor Hotel]
7:30-9:00 "Comparative Oral Traditions and the Homeric Hymn to
Demeter" John Foley (University of Missouri, Columbus)
9:00-10:00 Reception
FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER: Morning and Afternoon
[Wanuskewin Heritage Park]
9:00 Bus from Park Town Hotel to Wanuskewin
9:30-10:00 WELCOME TO WANUSKEWIN
Ernest Walker (University of Saskatchewan)
10:00-Noon THE VALIDITY OF ORAL CULTURE
"The Validity of Oral History" Keith Goulet (Associate Minister of
Education)
"Oral Traditions and Native Studies Research" Elizabeth Perrott (OISE)
"Oral Traditions and Environmental Education" James St. Arnold (Keweena,
Michigan)
Noon-1:30 LUNCH AND TOUR OF WANUSKEWIN
ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES
1:30-3:00 IMMIGRANT WOMEN AND ORAL TRADITION
"Immigrant Women and the Arts of Oral History: Notes from a Historian of
Italian-Canadians" Franca Iacovetta (University of Toronto)
"'If I Don't Tell, Who Will?': Preserving the Stories of Survivors of the
Holocaust" Paula Draper (OISE)
3:00-3:15 COFFEE
3:15-5:15 GENDER, APPROPRIATION, ORAL TRADITION
"Dene Oral Traditions" Joanne Barnaby (Dene Cultural Institute, Hay River,
NWT)
"Race, Sex, Culture: Inuit Women and Non-Inuit Researchers" Linda
Archibald (Carleton University)
"Listening to the Voices: Batoche and Pangnirtung" Diane Payment
(Environment Canada, Winnipeg)
"Inuit Myths of the Vikings" Karla Williamson (University of
Saskatchewan)
5:30 Bus back to Park Town Hotel
FRIDAY, 29 OCTOBER: Evening
[Oak Room, Park Town Motor Hotel]
"Immigrant Women Speaking: Telling Our Stories Ourselves" Coordinator
Joanne Lee (University of Saskatchewan)
"La Voix, clef du projet litte'raire symboliste" Myriam Watthee-Delmotte
(Catholic University of Louvain)
"La Tradition orale dans les re'cits de Panai Istrati" Mariana Ionescu
(University of Western Ontario)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 ORAL HISTORY AND THE NORTHWEST REBELLION
"An Incident from 1885: Another View of the North-West Rebellion" Blair
Stonechild (Saskatchewan Indian Federated College) and W.A. Waiser
(University of Saskatchewan)
"Reflections on Historical Evidence" Thomas Flanagan (University of
Calgary)
2:45-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:15 ORAL HISTORY METHODS
"'Remembering the North': Non-Native Memories of Life in the Canadian
Northwest" Ken Coates (University of Northern British Columbia)
"History, Rights and the Oral Record: Testimony from the Voigt Case" Tony
Gulig (University of Saskatchewan)
"The Interview Experience" Lu Johns Penikett (Whitehorse, Yukon)
4:15-5:30 LAW AND ORAL TRADITION
"Supreme Law Versus Grand Law: A Consideration of the Discursive
Processes Acknowledging Plural Legalisms" Jo Anne Fiske (University of
Northern British Columbia)
"Pauktuutit and Violence Against Inuit Women" Mary Crnkovich (Arctic
Resources Committee, Ottawa)
"Judging History Again" Robin Fisher (University of Northern British
Columbia)
SATURDAY, 30 OCTOBER: Evening
[Oak Room, Park Town Motor Hotel]
7:30 Conference Dinner
ADDRESS
Edward Chamberlin (University of Toronto, Director, General History
Project, Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples)
Entertainment Oral and Musical
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REGISTRATION
Registration for the conference is $70.00 Can ($50.00 Can without the
conference dinner); $35.00 Can for students, unemployed and
underemployed persons ($15.00 Can without the conference dinner).
To facilitate organization of transportation to Wanuskewin and social events,
please register by September 25, 1993.
Cheques made payable to the University of Saskatchewan should be sent to
Len Findlay, Director, Humanities Research Unit, Dept. of English,
University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0.
The conference hotel is: The Park Town Motor Hotel, 924 Spadina Crescent
East, Saskatoon, SK S7K 3P7. Mailing address: P.O. Box 1445,
Saskatoon, SK S7K 3H5. Tel: (306) 244-5564. Reservations: 1-800-667-
3999. Rates before October 1, 1993: $52.00 Can for a single (plus tax),
$60.00 Can for a double (plus tax).
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For more information contact
Len Findlay, Director, Humanities Research Unit, Dept. of English,
University of Saskatchewan, S7N 0W0.
or via E-mail,
Tony Gulig Gulig@sask.usask.ca