<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:Arial">Call for nominations: </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center"><b><span style="font-size:13.5pt;font-family:'Arial Unicode MS'">The DELAMAN Franz Boas
Award </span></b><span style="font-family:Arial"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri">DELAMAN, the </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(85,85,85)">Digital Endangered Languages and
Musics Archives Network</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"> (<a href="http://www.delaman.org/" target="_blank">http://www.delaman.org/</a>),
has now established the</span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,51)"> award
in honour of Franz Boas in recognition of significant contributions to the
documentation of endangered languages.</span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,102)"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">DELAMAN is
inviting nominations for the first award for a documentary collection of an
endangered or moribund language. The DELAMAN Franz Boas Award</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(85,85,85)"> recognizes and honours junior
scholars (Ph.D. awarded January 1, 2011 or later; early career documenters employed
less than 5 years) who have done outstanding documentary work in creating a
rich multimedia documentary collection of a particular language that is
endangered or no longer spoken. The language documentation collection must be
archived and made accessible in a DELAMAN archive (</span><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-size:10pt">with no or only minimal access
restrictions)</span><span style="font-size:10pt;color:rgb(85,85,85)">.</span></div></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"></p><div style="text-align:left"><span style="color:rgb(51,51,102);font-family:Calibri;font-size:13.3333px"><br></span></div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,102)"><div style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt">To submit a nomination and for information about the award go to: </span></div></span><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,102)"><a href="http://www.delaman.org/delaman-franz-boas-award/" target="_blank">http://www.delaman.org/delaman-franz-boas-award/</a></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(85,85,85)">The
award consists of a payment of $500. The <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm"><a href="http://www.icldc-hawaii.org/" title="" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(0,102,204);text-decoration:none">International
Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC)</span></a> </span></i>will
cover airfare and on-campus lodging up to a maximum of US$1500 to bring the
winner to Honolulu for the 2017 conference to receive the award. In
addition, members of the DELAMAN board will publish a review of the the
prize-winning work in <i><span style="border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">Language Documentation and
Conservation.</span></i></span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:left"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri;color:rgb(51,51,102);border:1pt none windowtext;padding:0cm">DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF NOMINATIONS: June 15, 2016 </span><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Calibri"></span></p>
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