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<div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong>CALL FOR PROPOSALS</strong><strong> </strong></span></div>
<span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">18<sup>th</sup> Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium</span></strong></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">We
invite you to submit a proposal that will fit in one of four venues:
paper presentations, workshops, poster sessions, panel sessions, and
videos. The symposium committee will select proposals that focus on
language documentation, revitalization, maintenance, methodology,
research, practices, and teaching which address and/or incorporate the
theme of this year’s conference: <strong><em>Language and Community: Building Collaboration in Revitalization Work.</em></strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">We
are especially seeking presentations that inform and educate Symposium
participants on the best practices in language
revitalization/maintenance (rather than presentations which primarily
promote a specific company, product, service, or solution).</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Paper
presentations will be 45 minutes long (30 minute papers with 15 minutes
for questions). Workshops will be in 90 minute sessions and panels in
60 minute blocks.</span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong>Important Dates </strong></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Complete proposals must be received <span style="text-decoration: underline;"><strong>no later than April 8, 2010</strong> </span>by 5:00 pm MST.</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">The committee will
contact you on or before April 15, 2011 to let you know if your proposal
has been selected for presentation at the Symposium. All decisions are
final.</span></li></ul>
<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong> </strong></span><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong>Symposium proposals should include the following: </strong></span></div>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Name of the person(s) who will be part of the session</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Affiliation (tribe, nation, organization, etc.)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Title and description of the session – up to <strong>500 words</strong></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Audio, visual, computer needs – *<em>please note, we may not be able to provide laptop computers</em></span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Type of session (panel session, paper, poster session, presentation, workshop)</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Length of session (45, 60, 90 minutes)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Presenter(s) profile(s) –
on a separate page please include the following information about each
presenter in your proposal: name, title (if applicable), affiliation
(tribe, nation, organization, university, etc.), contact information
(including email and phone number), and a biography of no more than 100
words per presenter.</span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;">Also, please indicate if you are willing to make your handouts digitally available before and/or after the SILS</span></li></ul>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong><em>Please submit your session proposal information by email to:</em></strong> <strong>
<a href="mailto:2011SILS@gmail.com" target="_blank">2011SILS@gmail.com</a> </strong></span></div>
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<div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong><em>For updated conference information, please visit the SILS 2011 website at:
<a href="http://e2ma.net/go/6996251084/208498825/221114686/28751/goto:http://linggraduate.unm.edu/SILS/" target="_blank">http://linggraduate.unm.edu/SILS/</a></em></strong></span></div>
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