<font size="5"><b><p style="margin: 0px 0px 16px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="5"><b>Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization</b></font></p><div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">
<font face="Helvetica" size="3"><b>Friday, 25 March 2011</b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Location: <b>University of Cambridge</b></font></div>
<div style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><b><div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1332/" target="_blank">http://www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/1332/</a></div>
</b></font></div><div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><b><i>Call for Papers Deadline</i></b>: abstracts due 26 November, 2010.<b><i><br>
On-line Registration</i></b> opens 1 January 2011. </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>Conveners</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">
<font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed" face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/mcj11/jonesm.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.mml.cam.ac.uk/french/staff/mcj11/&h=240&w=240&sz=20&tbnid=hXizy3ZXNK11SM:&tbnh=110&tbnw=110&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dmari%2Bjones&usg=__O4kIaGUCIFPL2KOsRbZtr_A6RH8=&sa=X&ei=EvURTLWVB5L-0gSEqJjxAg&ved=0CDQQ9QEwBg" target="_blank">Dr Mari Jones</a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3"> (Department of French/Peterhouse, University of Cambridge)<br>
<a href="http://www.lucy-cav.cam.ac.uk/pages/the-college/people/sarah-ogilvie.php" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed">Dr Sarah Ogilvie </font></a>(Department of Linguistics/Lucy Cavendish College, University of Cambridge) <br>
</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Summary</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;" align="justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">The
First Cambridge International Conference on Language Endangerment will
focus on language documentation, pedagogy, and revitalization.</font></p><div style="margin: 0px; text-align: justify; min-height: 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;">
<font face="Helvetica" size="3">The following speakers have agreed to give plenary sessions at the conference:</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.soas.ac.uk/staff/staff30592.php" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed"><b>Professor Peter Austin</b></font></a> (SOAS, University of London, UK) </font><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: x-large;"><b><b><b><b><b><b><i><div style="margin: 0px; display: inline ! important;">
<i>Language Revitalization and Pedagogy: a case from eastern Australia</i></div></i></b></b></b></b></b></b></span></p><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><a href="http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/dharris2/" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed"><b>Professor David K. Harrison </b></font></a></span><span style="font-size: 12px;">(Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, Oregon, USA) </span><span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; display: inline ! important;">
<span style="font-size: 18px;"><b><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; display: inline ! important;"><span style="font-size: 12px;"><i>Language Extinction: Local and Global Perspectives</i></span></div></b></span></div>
</b></span></div><div style="font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><br></div><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><a href="http://www.uni-muenster.de/Sprachwiss/Mitarbeiter/Dozenten/Himmelmann/index.html" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed"><b>Professor Dr Nikolaus Himmelmann</b></font></a></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4"> (University of Münster, Germany) </font><span style="font-weight: bold; font-size: x-large;"><b><b><b><b><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium; display: inline ! important;">
<span style="font-size: 12px;"><i>On Language Documentation</i></span></p></b></b></b></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4"><b><br></b></font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>Call for Papers</b></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;" align="justify">
<font face="Helvetica" size="4">This
conference will bring together academics, students, and members of
indigenous communities from around the world to discuss current
theories, methodologies, and practices of language documentation,
pedagogy, revitalization.<br><br>Most of the world's languages have
diminishing numbers of speakers and are on the brink of falling silent.
Currently around the globe, scholars are collaborating with members of
indigenous communities to document and describe these endangered
languages and cultures. Mindful that their work will be used by future
speech communities to learn, teach, and revitalize their languages,
scholars face new challenges in the way they gather materials and in the
way they present their findings. This conference will discuss current
efforts to record, collect, and archive endangered languages in writing,
sound, and video that will support future language learners and
speakers.<br><br>Documentation is of critical and immediate importance,
and is often considered one of the main tasks of the field linguist.
Future revitalization efforts may succeed or fail on the basis of the
quality and range of material gathered, and yet the process may be rapid
and dependent on conscious decisions by linguists and language workers
who may be analyzing the form of a language for the first time, and
codifying it in dictionaries and grammars. Written documentation of
course not only aids the process of standardization but also serves
important needs and functions within a community in support of language
maintenance such as providing the basis for pedagogical materials in
schools and helping to create a community's sense of identity. However,
indigenous communities and scholars of endangered languages are
beginning to realise that the rapid and often artificial nature of this
process can have negative effects - politically, linguistically, and
culturally - which feed into issues relating to education and,
ultimately, language revitalization.<br><br>In addition to the
opportunity of sharing experiences with a network of linguists, it is
hoped that participants will leave the conference with a new
understanding of the topic, innovative ideas for documentation and
pedagogy within their own linguistic contexts, and a renewed vigour to
implement what they have learnt in their own language situations.</font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; min-height: 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;" align="justify"><br></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;" align="justify">
<font face="Helvetica" size="3"><b><i>Submission Guidelines</i></b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="4"><br><br>We
welcome abstracts (200 words maximum) for papers (20 minute paper + 10
minute discussion) that include, among other topics, discussion of
interdisciplinary approaches and innovative techniques for collecting
raw material, presenting metadata, and archiving language materials;
teaching endangered languages to both children and adults; and
revitalizing language use in homes, schools, and communities.<i> </i></font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; text-align: justify; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;" align="justify"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">Abstracts are due by <b>26 November 2010</b>, and should be sent to:<br>
<b>Dr Mari Jones </b>(<a href="mailto:mcj11@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed">mcj11@cam.ac.uk</font></a>) and <b>Dr Sarah Ogilvie </b>(<a href="mailto:svo21@cam.ac.uk" target="_blank"><font style="color: rgb(0, 17, 237);" color="#0011ed">svo21@cam.ac.uk</font></a>).</font></p>
<p style="margin: 0px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3"> </font></p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 14px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Sponsor</b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0px 0px 12px; font-weight: normal; font-size: medium;"><font face="Helvetica" size="3">The
conveners are grateful for the support of The Centre for Research in
the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH) at the University of
Cambridge.</font></p><div><font face="Helvetica" size="3"><br></font></div></b></font>