SYMPOSIUM ON INDIGENOUS PEOPLES OF SIBERIA

THE UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS, SABATINI MULTICULTURAL RESOURCE CENTER ROOM 116
FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 2011 9:00 A.M TO 4:30 P.M.

9:00  Opening Remarks Prof. Gerald Mikkelson
KU Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies and Indigenous Nations Studies
Cynthia Annett, Ph.D., Independent Scholar

9:30 “Siberian Shamanism”
Prof. John Hoopes, Director, KU indigenous Nations Studies Program

10:00 “Crime and Insurgency: Illegal Trade in the Trans-Baikal Region in the 1920s”
Margarita Karnysheva, Ph.D. Candidate, KU, History

10:30 “Indigenous Tradition and Water Use in the Altai Mountain Region”
Heidi Mehl, M.A., Indigenous Nations, KU

11:00  “Informal Educational Opportunities in the Altay Republic”
Wendy Griswold, Ph.D., Assistant Research Professor, Kansas State University

11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. Lunch Break

1:30  “Oral Traditions as a Linguistic Resource: Altai and Choctaw Verbal Structures”
Albina Kravchenko, Gorno-Altaisk (Siberia), Fulbright Scholar, University of Oklahoma

2:00  “Native Clothing of Indigenous Peoples of Siberia”
Teresa Van Orman, Executive Director, Arkansas Craft School

2:30 “Skin, Bone and Hair: Retrieving the Altaian Topshuur” 
John Van Orman, M.A., Adjunct Instructor, Ozarka College

3:00  “Alash Tuvan Throat Singer Ensemble”
Brent Martin, Manager

3:30  “Kansas/Gorno-Altaisk Cooperation: Ten-Year Anniversary”
Cynthia Annett, Independent Scholar
Prof. Ray Pierotti, KU Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Indigenous Nations Studies

4:00 Closing Remarks
Gerald Mikkelson and Cynthia Annett
 

 
CO-SPONSORS: GLOBAL INDIGENOUS NATIONS STUDIES PROGRAM
CENTER FOR RUSSIAN, EAST EUROPEAN, AND EURASIAN STUDIES
GLOBAL & INTERNATIONAL STUDIES CENTER