Announcing InField

[Rebekka Siemens]

*** Apologies for cross-postings ***
   
  FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PROPOSALS
   
  The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Santa Barbara, is pleased to announce the first:
   
  INSTITUTE ON FIELD LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION
  (InField)
   
  Workshops: June 23rd - July 3, 2008
  Field Training: July 7-August 1st, 2008
  UC Santa Barbara Campus
   
  The Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation is designed for field linguists, graduate students, and language activists to receive training in current techniques and issues in language documentation, language maintenance, and language revitalization.
   
  The WORKSHOP portion of the institute will offer workshops of differing lengths on a variety of topics such as technologies, archiving, life in the field, ethics, orthographies, and lexicography. A special curriculum designed specifically for native speakers interested in documenting their own languages will include workshops on basic linguistics, materials development, how to provide technical support to a community, and successful models of language maintenance and revitalization. 
   
  The FIELD TRAINING portion of the institute will be intensive, based on a traditional graduate course in field methods, but will specifically incorporate the techiques and technologies of the workshops into the course. We anticipate running two or three courses on different languages simultaneously.
   
  FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW TO BE INVOVLED, VISIT OUR WEBSITE:
   
  http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield/ 
   
  CALL FOR PROPOSALS FOR InField WORKSHOPS: If you would like to offer a workshop, please submit a (short!) proposal by September 15th. See the website for details on submitting proposals.
   
  CHECK THE WEBSITES FOR FUTURE UPDATES; THE FINAL CURRICULUM WILL BE CIRCULATED IN THE FALL
   
   
   

       
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