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1) Subject:Language Documentation and Conservation Conference
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Date: 07 Aug 2010
From:<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">National Foreign Language Resource Center <<a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a>></span>
Subject:Language Documentation and Conservation Conference
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: medium; white-space: normal; ">2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation:<br>Strategies for Moving Forward. Honolulu, Hawai'i, February 11-13, 2011<br><a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC/2011</a><br><br><br>The 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation <br>(ICLDC) will be held February 11-13, 2011, at the Hawai‘i Imin International <br>Conference Center on the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus. Two days of <br>optional technical training workshops will precede the conference (Feb. 9-10). <br>An optional fieldtrip to Hilo (on the Big Island of Hawai'i) to visit Hawaiian <br>language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the <br>conference (Feb. 14-15).<br><br>The 1st ICLDC, with its theme “Supporting Small Languages Together," <br>underscored the need for communities, linguists, and other academics to work in <br>close collaboration. The theme of the 2nd ICLDC is “Strategies for Moving <br>Forward." We aim to build on the strong momentum created at the 1st ICLDC and <br>to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich, accessible <br>records which can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech <br>communities. We hope you will join us.<br><br>TOPICS<br><br>We welcome abstracts on best practices for language documentation and <br>conservation moving forward, which may include:<br><br>- Archiving matters<br>- Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives<br>- Data management<br>- Fieldwork methods<br>- Ethical issues<br>- Interdisciplinary fieldwork<br>- Language planning<br>- Lexicography<br>- Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality<br>- Orthography design<br>- Reference grammar design<br>- Reports on language maintenance, preservation, and revitalization<br> efforts<br>- Teaching/learning small languages<br>- Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls<br>- Topics in areal language documentation<br>- Training in documentation methods – beyond the university<br><br>This is not an exhaustive list and individual proposals on topics outside these <br>areas are warmly welcomed.<br><br>ABSTRACT SUBMISSION<br><br>Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any <br>language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region <br>discussed. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one joint <br>(co-authored) proposal.<br><br>ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY AUGUST 31, 2010, with notification of acceptance by <br>September 30, 2010. We ask for ABSTRACTS OF NO MORE THAN 400 WORDS for online <br>publication so that conference participants can have a good idea of the content <br>of your paper and a 50-WORD SUMMARY for inclusion in the conference program. <br>All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts <br>on the topic.<br><br>See ICLDC conference website for ONLINE PROPOSAL SUBMISSION FORM.<br><br>We will only be accepting proposal submissions for papers or posters.<br><br><br>Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the<br>journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication. (Most<br>presentations from the 1st ICLDC were recorded and can be heard as<br>podcasts here: <a href="http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125">http://scholarspace.manoa.hawaii.edu/handle/10125</a>/5961.)<br><br><br>PRESENTATION FORMATS<br><br>- Papers will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of<br> question time.<br>- Posters will be on display throughout the conference. Poster<br> presentations will run during the lunch breaks.<br><br>PLENARY SPEAKERS include:<br><br>* Keren D. Rice, University of Toronto<br>* Wayan Arka, Australian National University<br>* Larry Kimura, University of Hawai‘i at Hilo<br><br>ADVISORY COMMITTEE<br><br>Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University)<br>Peter Austin (SOAS, London)<br>Linda Barwick (University of Sydney)<br>Steven Bird (University of Melbourne)<br>Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona)<br>Lise Dobrin (University of Virginia)<br>Arienne Dwyer (University of Kansas)<br>Margaret Florey (Monash University)<br>Carol Genetti (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>Spike Gildea (University of Oregon)<br>Jeff Good (SUNY Buffalo)<br>Joseph Grimes (SIL International)<br>Colette Grinevald (University of Lyon)<br>Leanne Hinton (University of California, Berkeley)<br>Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center)<br>Will McClatchey (University of Hawai'i)<br>Marianne Mithun (University of California, Santa Barbara)<br>Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS)<br>Toshihide Nakayama (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)<br>Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto)<br>Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)<br><br><br>*************************************************************************<br> N National Foreign Language Resource Center<br> F University of Hawai'i<br> L 1859 East-West Road, #106<br> R Honolulu HI 96822<br> C voice: (808) 956-9424, fax: (808) 956-5983<br> email: <a href="mailto:nflrc@hawaii.edu">nflrc@hawaii.edu</a><br>VISIT OUR WEBSITE! <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/">http://nflrc.hawaii.edu</a><br>*************************************************************************<br></span>
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