InField Institute on Field LInguistics and Language Documentation

[Susan Penfield]

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

*Workshops on Language Documentation, Maintenance, and Revitalization*

to be held as part of

InField: Institute on Field Linguistics and Language Documentation

University of California, Santa Barbara

June 23rd – July 3rd, 2008


The Organizing Committee of InField solicits applications for workshops in
language documentation, language maintenance, and/or language revitalization
to be held as part of the Institute on Field Linguistics and Language
Documentation, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, June 23rd –
July 3rd, 2008. We particularly seek proposals from current practitioners in
this area, who would like to teach a workshop of two to eight hours in
length to an audience of practicing linguists, graduate students in
linguistics, and/or language activists with an interest in documenting,
maintaining, or revitalizing a language.

For a full description of InField, including workshops currently being
planned, visit the website at
http://www.linguistics.ucsb.edu/faculty/infield.

The proposal should include a statement of the topic of the proposed
workshop, the rationale for including it as part of InField, the proposed
length of the workshop, and a brief description of the workshop content and
how it would be taught. Please keep proposals to a maximum of two-pages in
length. Please include also a statement of qualifications of the instructor.


Workshop instructors will receive reimbursement for travel, room and board,
and a modest honorarium.

Proposals should be submitted to
*infield at linguistics.ucsb.edu*<infield at linguistics.ucsb.edu>.


*Deadline for proposals: September 15, 2007*

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Susan D. Penfield, Ph.D.

Associate Director, Center for Educational Resources in Culture, Language
and Literacy (CERCLL)
Department of English (Primary)
American Indian Language Development Institute (AILDI)
Second Language Acquisition & Teaching Ph.D. Program (SLAT)
Department of Language,Reading and Culture
Department of Linguistics
The Southwest Center (Research)
Phone for messages: (520) 621-1836


"Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind, a watershed of thought,
an ecosystem of spiritual possibilities."

                                                          Wade Davis...(on a
Starbucks cup...)
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