Susan Smythe Kung
Invited Presentations
De la Comunidad al Archivo y del Archivo para la Comunidad: Una Mirada al Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica. Ciclo de Charlas Lingüísticas del Laboratorio de Lingüística, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, May 28, 2021. Live broadcast on YouTube https://youtu.be/LoO9PdkfAmw and Facebook https://fb.watch/5XcrxY35qk/.
AILLA & Olfactory Research on Huehuetla Tepehua, guest lecture in Mesoamerican Languages undergraduate Anthropology class, taught by Daniel Suslak. Indiana University. March 11, 2021.
AILLA Archiving for the Future, UTL Open Resources for Teaching and Learning Showcase, UT-Austin, November 20, 2020.
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: A Data & Cultural Heritage Repository Built and Sustained by Grants, guest lectures in Digital Libraries graduate School of Information class taught by Melanie Cofield, UT-Austin, October 28, 2020.
Archiving for the Future: Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Collections, presentation for the Creative Commons Open GLAM Community Call, October 8, 2020.
DLI-DEL Data Management & Archiving, Session 5 of “Strengthening Capacity in Dynamic Language Infrastructure for Tribal Nations” Fall 2020 Proposal Preparation Webinar Series, followed by a panel discussion among archivists specializing in Indigenous collections (Moderator: Dr. Mary Linn; Panelists: Brian Carpenter, Susan Gehr, and Dr. Susan Smythe Kung), October 6, 2020.
Archiving Language Documentation Data, Special panel session Archiving and Language Documentation. Live broadcast of Abralin ao Vivo, the Brazilian Linguistic Society, on aovivo.abralin.org/ and YouTube.com/abralin, July 11, 2020. https://youtu.be/uQY4dZnQKds
Issue of Consent, Copyright, Intellectual Property and Traditional Knowledge: What They Mean for Digital Language Archives. Guest lecture in Experimental Topics in Linguistics and Information Science taught by Shobhana Chellian and Oksana Zavalina, University of North Texas, March 2, 2020.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: Its Mission, History, and Operations. COLING Project Workshop on ‘Innovative Teaching Methodologies for Lesser Documented Languages and Language Documentation in the context of Digital Humanities. The University of Texas at Austin, December 12-13, 2019.
El archivado lingüístico: La ética, el consentimiento informado, la propiedad intelectual y el conocimiento tradicional. Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social – Sureste (CIESAS), December 3, 2018.
El Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de LatinoAmérica. Colloquium, Asociación Ecuatoriana de Archiveros, Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador, Quito, Ecuador, June 4, 2018. (28 attendees).
Emerging best practices in endangered language archiving. Colloquium, School of Information, University of Texas at Austin, February 6, 2018. (25 attendees)
Issues of consent, copyright, intellectual property and traditional knowledge: What they mean for digital languages archives. Mini-Symposium on Language documentation and archiving, Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, University of Florida, Gainesville, April 13, 2017.
Case study: Citing archived resources in a Language publication. Second Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, Austin, Texas, April 8, 2016. With Paul Trilsbeek and Mandana Seyfeddinipur.
Taller-presentación: Usando archivos digitales de lenguas para la investigación. Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VII, University of Texas at Austin, October 31, 2015.
Altmetrics and archives. First Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics. Boulder, Colorado, September 19, 2015.
The roles of archives in promoting data citation and attribution. First Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, Boulder, Colorado, September 19, 2015. With Paul Trilsbeek, Laura Welcher and Mark Turin.
The cost of archiving: The AILLA perspective. 3rd INNET Conference: Costing and Sustainable Funding of Endangered Language Archives, Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, September 5, 2014.
Como usar y archivar datos en el Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica: Un taller-presentación. Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VI, University of Texas at Austin, October 26, 2013.
El Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica: Instrucciones para el usuario y el depositante. Special colloquium at the Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, Mexico, September 30, 2013.
Resumen de los resultados preliminares de la tarea de los Chunches: El tepehua de Huehuetla. Meronymy across Lanuages: Lexicalization, Semantics, Morphosyntax, Instituto de Investigaciones Antropológicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, September 27, 2013.
Como usar el Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica: El caso del tepehua de Huehuetla. Primer Encuentro de Estudios sobre Lengua y Cultura Tepehua, un Homenaje a Roberto Williams García: Archipiélago Tepehua, Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia, Mexico City, Mexico, December 6, 2012.
Acento primario y secundario en el tepehua de Huehuetla. First International Conference on Totonac-Tepehua Languages, Banff, Alberta, Canada, May 8, 2007.
Problemas ortográficos causados por un cambio de sonido en progreso en el tepehua de Huehuetla. Linguistics at the Service of Indigenous Languages, University of Texas at Austin, April 5, 2002.
Conducting linguistic research in an indigenous community, Maestría en Lingüística Aplicada Serie de Coloquios, Departamento de Lenguas, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, October 26, 2000.
Health issues in the field. UT Intramural Symposium on the Context of Linguistic Fieldwork, Department of Linguistics Colloquium, University of Texas at Austin, April 24, 2000.
Conferences
Language Documentation and Creative Commons Licenses, Language Documentation and Archiving Conference, Berlin, Germany, October 7, 2022.
Simple Steps for Archiving Language Documentation Data, with J. Ryan Sullivant and Elena M. Pojman, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, New Orleans, LA, January 3, 2020.
Announcing the curated collections of Terrence Kaufman at AILLA, with J. Ryan Sullivant, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, New York City, NY, January 3, 2019.
La importancia de archivar materiales lingüísticos: AILLA y otras opciones, Amazonicas 7 Conference, Baños de Agua Santa, Ecuador, May 30, 2018. (40 attendees)
Mulling over multilingual metadata Redux, with Itza Carbajal, Theresa Polk & Melanie Cofield, Birds of a Feather group, Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, May16, 2018.
Mulling over multilingual metadata: Making the case for ethical compromise, with Jullianne Houghes Ballou, Theresa Polk & Melanie Cofield, panel presentation at Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, TX, May 24, 2017.
Reproducible research in linguistics: Toward a data-driven science of language, with Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer, special session: Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics, Annual Meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Austin, TX, January 5, 2017.
La creación de un archivo digital de la colección de Terrence Kaufman: Antecedentes del proyecto y resumen de la colección en el Archivo de los Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica,with Gabriela Pérez Báez, Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VII, University of Texas at Austin, October 29, 2015.
Odiferous affect roots in Huehuetla Tepehua, with Carolyn O’Meara, 13th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Northumbria University, Newcastle, U.K., July 21, 2015.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, 2014 Texas Conference on Digital Libraries, Austin, Texas, April 29, 2014.
El acento sensible a la cantidad en el tepehua de Huehuetla: Una novedad tipológica, with Megan J. Crowhurst, X Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, November 13, 2008.
Mood and modality in Huehuetla Tepehua, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, January 6, 2008.
Weight-sensitive stress in Huehuetla Tepehua: A typological novelty, with Megan J. Crowhurst, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Chicago, January 6, 2008.
La intransitividad mixta en el tepehua de Huehuetla, IX Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, November 15, 2006.
Numbers and numeral classifiers in Lhiimaqalhqama’ (Huehuetla Tepehua), Texas Linguistics Society 9, University of Texas at Austin, November 4, 2005.
Clasificadores numerales en lhiimaqalhqama’ (tepehua de Huehuetla), Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica II, University of Texas at Austin, October 27, 2005.
Préstamos del castellano en el tepehua de Huehuetla, Hidalgo, Loanword Workshop, Project for the Documentation of the Languages of Mesoamerica, Catemaco, Veracruz, Mexico, July 22, 2005.
Entre el simbolismo sonoro y las palabras afectivas: El lenguaje expresivo en el tepehua de Huehuetla, VIII Congreso Nacional de Lingüística de la Asociación Mexicana de Lingüística Aplicada, Universidad de las Américas Puebla, Mexico, May 18, 2005.
Sound symbolism and expressive language in Huehuetla Tepehua, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, Oakland, California, January 9, 2005.
Simbolismo de sonido y el lenguaje expresivo en el tepehua de Huehuetla, VIII Encuentro Internacional de Lingüística en el Noroeste, Universidad de Sonora, Mexico, November 19, 2004.
External possession in Huehuetla Tepehua, Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, May 1, 2004.
Reconstructing lost phonemes in Huehuetla Tepehua using “affectionate speech,” Symposium About Language and Society-Austin 10, University of Texas at Austin, April 13, 2002.
The loss of uvular stops in Huehuetla Tepehua, Annual Meeting of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas, San Francisco, California, January 5, 2002.
Accounting for verbal argument indexing in Cherokee, Student Conference in Linguistics 11, University of Texas at Austin, May 9, 1999.
Slam style and style shift, Symposium About Language and Society-Austin 7, University of Texas at Austin, April 10, 1999.
Posters and Electronic Posters
Presenting the new AILLA website [e-poster]. 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Honolulu, Hawai’i, March 3, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/42020. With J. Ryan Sullivant & Herminia Rangel.
Archiving the Terrence Kaufman Collection: A summary of and guide to the collection holdings in the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Special session: The Relevance of Language Documentation to the Field of Linguistics: Case Studies Based on the Terrence Kaufman Collections at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. SSILA Annual Meeting, January 7, 2017.
Developing standards for data citation and attribution for reproducible research in linguistics: Project summary and next steps. Special session: Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics. LSA Annual Meeting, January 6, 2017. With Andrea L. Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer.
Citation and attribution of archived data: Guidelines of the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America. Special session: Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics. LSA Annual Meeting, January 6, 2017. With Jaime Pérez González.
The data management life cycle for linguists. Special session: Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics. LSA Annual Meeting, January 6, 2017. With Jessica Trelogan.
How language researchers can enhance and improve archival materials: Suggestions from the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, LSA Annual Meeting, Portland, Oregon, January 11, 2015.
Accessibility and digital language archives 101, 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation, Honolulu, Hawai’i, February 27, 2015.
Guest Lectures
AILLA & Archiving for the Future. Guest lecture in Signed Linguistics Seminar. LIN 389V, Jenny Singleton, March 12, 2021.
Texas Data Repository. Guest lecture in Signed Linguistics Seminar. LIN 389V, Jenny Singleton, March 12, 2021.
Archiving for the Future Phase 3: Data Management and Archiving. Guest lecture in Documentary Linguistics Seminar, LIN 389D, Patience Epps, November 6, 2020.
Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: A Data and Cultural Heritage Repository Built and Sustained by Grants. Guest lecture in Digital Libraires INF385S, Melanie Cofield, October 28, 2020.
Archiving for the Future Phases 1 & 2: Organizing and processing data. Guest lecture in Documentary Linguistics Seminar, LIN 389D, Patience Epps, October 23, 2020.
AILLA archive-a-thon. Guest lecture in LIN389D: Research in Documentary/Descriptive Linguistics, Dr. Patience Epps, instructor of record, October 13, 2017. With J. Ryan Sullivant.
Metadata, data management, and archives. Guest lecture in LIN389D: Research in Documentary/Descriptive Linguistics, Dr. Daniel Law, instructor of record, November 11, 2016.
The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin American and other digital language archives. Guest lecture in UGS 302: Dying Languages: What Linguistic Diversity Means for Us, Dr. Anthony C. Woodbury, instructor of record, April 10, 2014.
Home Institution Presentations
Archiving for the Future: An Open Educational Resource. Presentation at the University of Texas Libraries Staff Hang-Out, November 20, 2020.
Managing research data. LLILAS Benson, UT-Austin, September 29, 2016. With Jessica Trelogan.
Short Course Workshops
Navigating Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property, June 20-23, 2022, Co-facilitator Hilaria Cruz, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2022), University of Montana. (30 participants)
Archiving for the Future, June 13-16, 2022, Co-facilitator with Jaime Pérez González, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2022), University of Montana. (34 participants)
Community Language Archives, June 25-28, 2018, Co-instructor with Susan Gehr, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2018), University of Florida, Gainesville. (18 participants)
Navigating Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property, June 25-28, 2018, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2018), University of Florida, Gainesville. (14 participants)
How to Organize your Materials and Data for a Language Archive, June 18-21, 2018, Co-instructor with J. Ryan Sullivant, Alicia Niwagaba, and Vera Ferreira, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2018), University of Florida, Gainesville. (10 participants)
Community Language Archives, June 27-30, 2016, Co-instructor with Susan Gehr, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2016), University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Consent, Rights, and Intellectual Property: Navigating Language Documentation, Archiving, and Research, June 21-24, 2016, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2016), University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Community Language Archives, June 24-27, 2014, Co-instructor with Susan Gehr and Shannon Bischoff, Institute on Collaborative Language Research (CoLang 2014), University of Texas-Arlington.
Organized Sessions, Panels, and Workshops
Indigenous Multilingualism in Lowland South America, panel session at the SALSA XIII Biennial Conference of the Society for Anthropology of Lowland South America [virtual], June 25 & 28, 2021. With Patience Epps.
Relating the Past, Present & Future: Archiving Language Collections. 7th International Conference on Language Conservation & Documentation. University of Hawai’i at Manoa [virtual], March 4 & 7, 2021. With Paul Trilsbeek, Mandana Seyfeddinipur, Nick Thieberger, Zachary O’Hagan, and Raina Heaton. http://bit.ly/ICLDC7ARCHIVING
Wikipedia Edi-a-thon: International Year of Indigenous Languages. University of Texas at Austin, Feb. 1, 2019. With J. Ryan Sullivant and Sunkulp Ananthanarayan.
Archivatón de AILLA. Amazonicas 7 Summer Field School, Quito, Ecuador, June 4, 2018. (15 participants)
Language documentation: Consent, copyright, intellectual property and traditional knowledge. Workshop on Technological Methodologies in Language Documentation and Anthropology. Anthropology Matters! 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Washington, D.C., November 29, 2017.
Primer Archivatón de AILLA. Congreso de Idiomas Indígenas de Latinoamérica VIII, University of Texas at Austin, October 27 & 29, 2017. With J. Ryan Sullivant (workshop co-organizer & co-instructors).
Workshop on Data Management Plans for Linguistic Research, 2017 Linguistic Society of America Summer Institute, University of Kentucky, Lexington, July 29-30, 2017. With Andrea Berez-Kroeker and Lauren Collister (workshop co-organizers & co-instructors).
Third Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, January 8-9, 2017, LSA Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. With Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer (workshop co-organizers).
Data Citation and Attribution for Reproducible Research in Linguistics, symposium and panel discussion on January 6, 2017 with a poster session on January 7, 2017, LSA Annual Meeting, Austin TX. With Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer (session co-organizers).
The Relevance of Language Documentation to the Field of Linguistics: Case studies based on the Terrence Kaufman Collections at the Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America, symposium and poster session on January 7, 2017, SSILA Annual Meeting, Austin, TX. With Pérez Báez, Gabriela (session co-organizer).
Second Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, April 8-10, 2016, University of Texas at Austin. With Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer (workshop co-organizers).
First Workshop on Data Citation and Attribution in Linguistics, September 18-20, 2015, University of Colorado, Boulder. With Andrea Berez-Kroeker, Gary Holton & Peter Pulsifer (workshop co-organizers).
Workshops & Working Groups, Invited
2nd workshop on Metadata Editing and Collection Management (MeaCoM), University of Florida, Gainesville, June 23, 2018.
Developing Infrastructure for the Computational Resource on South Asian Languages (CoRSAL), University of North Texas, November 17, 2017.
Open Access and Open Data of Endangered Languages Collections, Universität zu Köln, Germany, October 10-14, 2016.
User-centered Design of Language Archives, University of North Texas, February 20-21, 2016.
Expanding the Linguistic Holdings of the Houston Asian American Archive, Rice University, November 13-14, 2014.
Automatically Annotated Repository of Digital Audio and Video Resources Community (AARDVARC), The University of Texas at Austin, October 15-16, 2014.
Forum on the Analysis of Totonac-Tepehua, as part of the Workshops on the Analysis of the Linguistic Diversity [of Mexico] for the Elaboration of the Catálogo de las lenguas indígenas mexicanas, conducted by the Mexican Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indígenas, Papantla, Veracruz, Mexico, September 11-12, 2006.
Susan Smythe Kung 