ENUS 2010 Announcement

[John Bowden]

  Preliminary Announcement
  6th International East Nusantara Conference on Language & Culture
  (ENUS 2010)
   
  WHERE: Universitas Nusa Cendana (days 1 & 3; tentative), and Language & Culture Unit-GMIT (day 2); Kupang, NTT, Indonesia.
  WHEN: 5-7 August 2010 (Thursday thru Saturday); registration & opening ceremony on afternoon and evening of Wed. 4th Aug. (Registration details will be posted at a later date.)
  Call for beginning to think about papers: J
  The ENUS 2010 organizing committee invites scholars working on the languages and cultures of eastern Indonesia and East Timor to participate in the sixth international ENUS conference.
  Topics (limited to languages and cultures in the ENUS region):
  Descriptive work on individual languages and cultures; comparative work of Austronesian or Papuan languages & cultures; contact issues; pidgin & creoles; language documentation issues; prehistory; language endangerment and language shift; other sociolinguistic issues; the role of technology in promoting revitalization efforts; the sociolinguistic aspects of language in education (e.g. creole issues, bilingual education, MLE, Muatan Lokal; NOTE: this is not a conference on Education, so papers not dealing with the sociolinguistic aspects of education will not be accepted.)
  Keynote speaker: (invited speaker has tentatively agreed; confirmation will be announced later)
  Papers: 
  Papers will be of 30 minutes' length, with 20 minutes for presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Participants may submit up to one single-authored paper and one joint-authored paper.
  Abstracts:
  Length: not more than 200 words, single-spaced, including data and references. Font: Times New Roman, 12. (If there are special Unicode glyphs such as phonetic characters, please use Doulos SIL, Gentium, or Tahoma). Please observe the length limit. More specifics in future announcements. Don't send them in yet! 
  Deadline for abstracts: 31 January 2010
  Abstracts to be submitted to: June Jacob, ubb_manager at kastanet.org
  Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by the end of March 2010. (tentative)
  Further details about the conference will be available in due course on the conference website, (yet to be organized, right now it's just good intentions).
  Visas: Under 2009 rules, Visa-on-Arrival can be used to attend conferences for those originated from certain countries, so obtaining a visa beforehand from your nearest Indonesian Consulate should no longer be necessary, unless you are also planning to do research on your trip. When it gets closer to the time of the conference, check visa status and prices on the web.  (http://www.expat.or.id/info/docs.html) 
  ENUS 2010 conference sponsors
  Universitas Nusa Cendana, Kupang
  Unit Bahasa & Budaya, (GMIT), Kupang
  Yayasan Agape-Indah

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