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<span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ON LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION & CONSERVATION</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">CALL FOR PROPOSALS:</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">General papers, posters, electronic posters</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">NSF-Supported Workshops and Talk Story roundtable discussions (pending final approval of funding)</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:19px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:left"></span><font color="#8d2424" style="font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-align:left"><strong>PLEASE READ CAREFULLY AS SOME INFORMATION HAS CHANGED SINCE OUR LAST CONFERENCE.</strong></font></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">INTRODUCTION</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></span><font color="#2a2a2a" style="font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The 5th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), “Vital Voices: Linking Language & Wellbeing,” will be held March 2-5, 2017, at the <a href="http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-ewc/conference-center" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(114,188,17)" target="_blank">Hawaiʻi Imin International Conference Center</a> on the campus of the <a href="https://manoa.hawaii.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(114,188,17)" target="_blank">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</a>. The 5th ICLDC is hosted by the <a href="http://ling.hawaii.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(114,188,17)" target="_blank">Department of Linguistics</a> and the <a href="http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/" style="text-decoration:none;color:rgb(114,188,17)" target="_blank">National Foreign Language Resource Center </a>at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.<br><br>The conference program will feature two keynote talks, Talk Story roundtable discussions, and Workshops (pending final approval of funding). An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately precede the conference (February 28-March 1).<br><br>The theme of the 5th ICLDC is “Vital Voices: Linking Language & Wellbeing.” Wellbeing is a state of the body and mind that encompasses the presence of positive moods and emotions, life satisfaction, fulfillment and positive functioning, and the absence of negative emotions like anxiety. Increasingly, researchers in several fields have noted a positive correlation between language maintenance and wellbeing in endangered language communities. While the nature of the connection between language and wellbeing remains the subject of much debate, the existence of a connection is not entirely unexpected, given the range of outcomes associated with wellbeing.<br><br>In addition, languages encode knowledge systems, so language loss represents not only the loss of a communicative system, but also the loss of traditional knowledge systems. Importantly, traditional knowledge systems encode cultural practices related to well-being. Understanding the connections between language and wellbeing will potentially have implications for public health and policy and beyond, but also for language researchers, since traditional knowledge systems are among the most threatened domains of endangered language. Knowledge of esoteric domains such as botanical classification and traditional medicines is forgotten well before basic vocabulary and language structure. Hence, these areas of traditional knowledge are precisely the areas which need to be prioritized by language documenters. <br> <br>Exploring the connections between language and wellbeing is potentially transformational for language documentation and conservation, and thus it will be the theme for the 5th ICLDC. </font><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">We aim to build on the strong momentum created by the 1st–4th ICLDCs to discuss research and revitalization approaches yielding rich records that can benefit both the field of language documentation and speech communities. We hope you will join us.</font></span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information and links to past conferences, visit our </span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">conference website: <a href="http://icldc-hawaii.org/" target="_blank">http://icldc-hawaii.org/</a></span></span></div>
<br><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: GENERAL CONFERENCE TALKS, POSTERS, AND ELECTRONIC POSTERS </span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal deadline: August 31, 2016</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><u style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">Topics</font></u><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">We especially welcome abstracts that address the conference theme, “Vital Voices: Linking Language and Wellbeing” (see description above). In addition, <span style="font-weight:700">we warmly welcome abstracts on other subjects in language documentation and conservation</span>, which may include but are not limited to:</font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Archiving matters</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Assessing success in documentation and revitalization strategies</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Community experiences of revitalization</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Data management</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Ethical issues</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Language planning</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Lexicography and grammar design</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Methods of assessing ethnolinguistic vitality</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Orthography design</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Teaching/learning small languages</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Topics in areal language documentation</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Training in documentation methods – beyond the university</span></li></ul></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">Presentation formats</font></u><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="font-weight:700">Papers</span> will be allowed 20 minutes for presentation with 10 minutes of question time.</font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><span style="font-weight:700">Posters</span> will be on display throughout the day of presentation. Poster presentations will run during the lunch. Poster presentations are recommended for authors who wish to present smaller, more specific topics, or descriptions of particular projects. </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a">Electronic posters (e-posters)</font></span><font color="#2a2a2a"> are opportunities for presentations of software, websites, and other computer-based projects, in an environment that allows face-to-face interaction with the audience. Similar to a traditional poster session, e-poster presenters will use their own laptop computers to display their projects while the audience walks around, watching demonstrations and asking questions. E-poster sessions will take place during lunch in a room with tables and internet access.</font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2. CALL FOR PROPOSALS: NSF-SUPPORTED WORKSHOPS AND TALK STORY ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSIONS (pending final approval of funding) </span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Proposal deadline: June 30, 2016</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">As a special addition to our program this year, we are including a 90-minute block on Thursday, Friday and Saturday to be dedicated to two alternative conference activities: Workshops and Talk Story roundtable discussions. These activities will run concurrently, and participants will pre-register for Workshops and Talk Story roundtable attendance on a first-come, first-served basis. </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">We invite submissions for Workshops and Talk Story roundtable discussions topics/facilitators addressing the conference theme of “Vital Voices: Linking Language and Wellbeing.” These are described below, as well as the nature of the travel support from the NSF.</font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"> </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a">Talk Story roundtable discussions </font></span></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">In response to feedback from attendees of previous ICLDCs, this year we are providing a forum for small facilitated discussions about topics related to the conference theme. We invite proposals for 90-minute “Talk Story” (a Hawai‘i Creole English term referring to the sharing and preservation of culturally relevant stories) roundtable discussions. These discussions will be led by an expert discussant and limited to 20-30 attendees per session. <span style="font-weight:700">Each Talk Story roundtable will be repeated on three days of the conference</span>, allowing ample opportunity for conference attendees to participate in the Talk Story Sessions of their choice. Talk Story sessions are <span style="font-weight:700">meant to be fully interactive for participants, rather than a one-directional presentation of information</span>. We feel this format is particularly appropriate for more sensitive topics dealing with wellbeing, as well as for intragroup sharing of past successes. </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"> </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a">Workshops</font></span></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">We also welcome proposals for Workshops on topics broadly relating to language revitalization and wellbeing. Each 90-minute workshop <span style="font-weight:700">will be held twice over three days of the conference</span>, allowing multiple opportunities for interested attendees to participate. Workshops will accommodate 60–100 participants and <span style="font-weight:700">are intended to be more presentational and instructional in style than the Talk Story sessions</span>. Appropriate workshop topics will be related to the conference theme and may include instruction in techniques or methods, hands-on activities, etc.</font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"> </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><strong style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">NSF support details - Pending final approval of funding</font></strong><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">Thanks to generous support from the US National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Program, we are able to offer travel assistance up to US$2000 for each selected Workshop and Talk Story Session. Funds will be provided as (partial) flight reimbursements, hotel nights, or per diem payments, to be determined by the ICLDC Executive Committee. In the event that a Workshop or Talk Story Session is jointly presented by more than one individual, the presenter team will inform the ICLDC Executive Committee how to divide the award across the presenters. </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a">AS A CONDITION OF ACCEPTANCE, WORKSHOP AND TALK STORY ROUNDTABLE PRESENTERS MUST ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS AND FUTURE ITERATIONS OF THEIR RESEARCH.</font></span></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a"><br></font></span></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">3. ABSTRACT SUBMISSION</span></div>
<br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><u style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">Rules for submission in all categories:</font></u></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region discussed. </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors may submit no more than one individual and one co-authored proposal (including participation in a Workshop or Talk Story Session proposal), or no more than two co-authored proposals. </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">In no case may an author submit more than one individually-authored proposal.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Proposals for the NSF-sponsored Workshops and Talk Story Sessions are </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">due by</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">June 30, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, with notification of acceptance by July 31, 2016.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters are </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">due by</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">August 31, 2016</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, with notification of acceptance by October 1, 2016.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We will not be accepting any proposals for panel presentations or colloquia. </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Because of limited space, please note that the Abstract Review Committee may ask that some general abstracts submitted as papers be presented as posters or electronic posters instead. </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Selected authors will be invited to submit their conference papers to the journal </span><a href="http://www.nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/" style="font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(114,188,17)" target="_blank">Language Documentation & Conservation</a><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> for publication.</span></li></ul></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">How to prepare your proposal:</font></u></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">For Workshop and Talk Story proposals: </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We ask for proposals, </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">no more than 400 words in length</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, describing the content of the Workshop or Talk Story including how it relates to the conference theme. </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">In addition, we ask for a 100-word biography</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> describing the qualifications of each presenter. </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">For proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters:</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> We ask for abstracts of </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">no more than 400 words</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> for online publication so that conference participants will have a good idea of the content of your paper, and a</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700"> 50-word summary</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> for inclusion in the conference program. All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international experts on the topic.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">To facilitate blind peer review, please DO NOT INCLUDE YOUR NAME OR AFFILIATION in your abstract or filename. Your proposal should only include your presentation title, abstract, and list of references (if applicable). </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">If you are including references/citations to your own work in your abstract, please be sure to replace your name(s) with "Author".</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> For example, if you are Ted Smith and you wrote an article in 2009, which you are citing in your file (i.e., Smith (2009) ), you would change it to "Author (2009)." If you are including a list of references at the end, also make sure to anonymize any of your publications similarly as well.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Please note that your reference list is not counted in your 400-word abstract maximum, only the main abstract text. </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Please save your abstract as an MS WORD DOCUMENT or PDF FILE</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. MS Word is preferred. However, if you are using special fonts, special characters, or diagrams in your abstract, a PDF file is recommended to make sure it displays as you intend.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">For a FILE NAME, use an abbreviated version of your title.</span><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Open Sans, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px"> For example, if your presentation title is "Revitalizing Hawaiian for the next generation: Social media tools," your filename might be "Revitalizing_Hawaiian.doc" or “Revitalizing_Hawaiian_social_media.pdf"</span></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Please follow the guidelines above when preparing your abstract. Submitted proposals that ignore them may be returned. </span></li></ul></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><div><br></div></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To submit an online proposal, visit </span><a href="http://icldc5.icldc-hawaii.org/" target="_blank"><b style="font-size:15px">http://icldc5.icldc-hawaii.org</b></a><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and click on "Call For Proposals."</span></div>
<br><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><strong style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><u><font color="#2a2a2a">Proposal review criteria:</font></u></strong></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Appropriateness of the topic: </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Does the proposal address the themes of the conference?</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Presentation:</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Is the abstract well-written? Does it suggest that the paper/poster/Workshop/Talk Story Session will be well organized and clearly presented?</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Importance of the topic:</span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Is this an important topic within the area? Is the paper/poster/Workshop/Talk Story Session likely to make an original contribution to knowledge in the field? Will it stimulate discussion?</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Contribution to the discipline: </span><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">For talks, does the presentation make a methodological or theoretical contribution to the discipline? If not (e.g., project descriptions), could the presentation be submitted as a poster or electronic poster?</span></li></ul></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">4. TIMELINE</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">April 2016: Call for Proposals announced</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">June 30, 2016: Proposals for Workshops and Talk Story Sessions deadline</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">July 31, 2016: Notification of acceptance to Workshops and Talk Story Sessions</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">August 31, 2016: Proposals for general papers, posters, and electronic posters deadline</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">October 1, 2016: Notification of acceptance for general papers, posters, and electronic posters</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">October 1, 2016: Early registration opens</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">December 15, 2016: Early registration deadline. Regular registration continues until full.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">March 2-5, 2017: 5th ICLDC</span></li></ul><div><font color="#2a2a2a" face="Open Sans, arial, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></font></div></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">5. SCHOLARSHIPS (pending final approval of funding)</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a">To help defray travel expenses to come and present at the conference, scholarships of up to US$1,500 will be awarded to the six best abstracts by (i) students and/or (ii) members of an endangered language community who are actively working to document their heritage language and who are not employed by a college or university. If you are eligible and wish to be considered for a scholarship, please select the appropriate "Yes" button on the proposal submission form. This is applicable to regular conference papers only (not the Workshops or Talk Story Sessions). The scholarships are funded by support from the National Science Foundation Documenting Endangered Languages Program. </font></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#2a2a2a">AS A CONDITION OF ACCEPTANCE, SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENTS MUST ACKNOWLEDGE SUPPORT OF THE NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION IN THEIR PRESENTATIONS AND FUTURE ITERATIONS OF THEIR RESEARCH.</font></span></span><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><u>NOTE</u>: Please be advised that these scholarships are considered taxable income under U.S. tax laws. U.S. citizens and permanent residents can expect to receive a 1099 form to figure into their annual tax return for 2017. Non-U.S. citizens/residents may have the applicable taxable amount (typically 30%) deducted from the scholarship check prior to receipt.</font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><font color="#2a2a2a"><br></font></span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div>
<div dir="ltr"><span><font><span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap">6. IMPORTANT UPDATES & NEWS</span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><span style="font-size:15px;font-weight:bold;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><font size="3" style="color:rgb(119,119,119);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif"><u><span style="font-weight:700"><font color="#a82e2e">IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION ABOUT REGISTRATION FOR THE 5TH ICLDC</font></span></u></font></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><ul><li><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Due to space constraints at the Imin International Conference Center, we are</span><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">limiting registration to 400 participants.</span></li><li><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">There will be</span><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><strong style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NO ON-SITE REGISTRATION</strong><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">allowed.</span><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> </span><font color="#a82e2e" style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-weight:700">All participants at the ICLDC must register before the conference online.</span></font></li><li><span style="color:rgb(168,46,46);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;font-weight:700">Registration will begin on our website on OCTOBER 1, 2016 and will continue until full.</span></li></ul></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><div><br></div></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px"><font><b>NEW ICLDC LISTSERV</b></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:13px"><span><font><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">We have set up an ICLDC listserv, which will be the official announcements email list for the biennial International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC). Please subscribe to it if you wish to get announcements and reminders related to the ICLDC Conference. We may occasionally also post announcements of other news and events of interest to our listserv subscribers, but in generally, posts will be kept t</span><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35)">o a minimum. </span></font></span><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35)">(If you prefer social media, you can also just follow us on Facebook and Twitter. The same key announcements will be posted there as well.)</span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span style="color:rgb(20,24,35);font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><span style="display:inline;color:rgb(20,24,35);font-size:13px"><div style="display:inline"><p style="margin:0px 0px 6px">To subscribe/unsubscribe to the ICLDC listserv, visit: <br><a href="https://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Flistserv.hawaii.edu%2Fcgi-bin%2Fwa%3FSUBED1%3DICLDC-L%26A%3D1&h=CAQG2GpTMAQEjoCxSKaZMclkBe9g5Vbyww7HNkKotiaf7Mg&enc=AZMJYzawepJlYN56XjsSE0kgEgHgdeJlKVwym1bFH-tJKVKIxrkaibwKQqIfqrrHr4mCjCp4GlD6VdEekYM_xbvztBtmSwg7DohO8EaODnh1AJPp1ncLJZ5Ghne1wSKSxGWGSfgRYBu9foSkv8DL_jAVBDwrg4HbT9PXKttLNFAPlKS1GdovCFuEbpcD5dLAUICg-9lGrHdlZd35HNhvX--P&s=1" rel="nofollow" style="color:rgb(59,89,152);text-decoration:none" target="_blank">https://listserv.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ICLDC-L&A=1</a></p></div></span></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><br></font></span></div><div dir="ltr"><span><font><br></font></span></div><br><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:bold;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions?</span><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> Feel free to contact us at <a href="mailto:icldc@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">icldc@hawaii.edu</a></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size:13px"><br></span></div></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px">Andrea L. <span style="color:rgb(42,42,42);font-family:'Open Sans',arial,sans-serif;white-space:normal;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Berez-Kroeker</span>, Gary Holton, and Jim Yoshioka</span></div><div style="line-height:1.15;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;font-size:13px">5th ICLDC Executive Committee</span></div>
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