<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div dir="ltr"><span id="m_2680328161462660162m_6575180533904821904gmail-docs-internal-guid-ee99db28-7fff-ef95-619f-5132168d2fe7"><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recognizing Relationships</span></h2><h3 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:13pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)</span></h3><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa</span></h4><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:3pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">March 4-7, 2021 </span></h4><div><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(207,46,46);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">COVID-19 Statement</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Due to COVID-19, ICLDC 2021 will be held <b>virtually</b>. The ICLDC 7 organizers are excited about this year’s theme, and the possibilities for broad international discussion that an <b>online conference</b> can offer.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We are currently investigating what technologies we will use and how the conference will take shape and how we can accommodate time zone differences for presenters, as well as family and work obligations.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;background-color:rgb(238,238,238);margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We look forward to your participation. Please “join” us!</span></p><h4 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:36pt 0pt 0pt"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Conference Theme: </span><span style="font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Recognizing Relationships</span></font></h4><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">There are many critical challenges that endangered language documentation and conservation faces, some of which seem insurmountable, and despite linguists’ best efforts, many of the proposed solutions fall short. These challenges have been apparent to many communities, language activists and academic linguists since (or even before) the earliest public warnings of the “endangered language crisis” in the early 1990’s, and recognition of the great number of large-scale challenges has only become more apparent since. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">One reason that many of the current solutions have not reached the level of success to which they have aspired is that the need to identify and/or foster relationships is often minimized or even ignored completely. Identifying and fostering relationships by taking the time to build understanding between stakeholders, learning about needs and skills that can be offered, and developing shared goals and outcomes are central to sustainable solutions for language documentation and conservation. These relationships go beyond those between communities and linguists and extend to multi-party relationships among linguists, communities, other academic fields, governmental and non-governmental organizations, educational and funding agencies, and many other individuals invested in the future of the language. There are also important intra-group relationships within these stakeholding groups (e.g., between members of an Indigenous community, or language workers documenting signed languages and those documenting spoken languages) as well as inter-group relationships between different Indigenous communities. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:18pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">At ICLDC 2021 we propose to initiate a dialogue on how recognizing relationships can help overcome the many critical challenges in language documentation and language reclamation. We believe that this focus will lead to improved connections among academic linguists, various communities, researchers from other disciplines, educational practitioners, and many other stakeholders. We specifically aim to draw attention to the transformative power of recognizing relationships to overcome critical challenges.</span></p><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:36pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Guidelines</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We have two calls for proposals with four different presentation formats. In the General Session, we have regular paper presentations and posters. We also have Workshop and Talk Story session proposals, which are due two months earlier than the General Session proposals.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5pt 0pt 0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:5pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">For more information on the requirements for each presentation type and their proposal submission form, please see the </span><a href="http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/call-for-proposals/" style="text-decoration-line:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Proposals section of our conference website</span></a><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></p><br><h2 dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:36pt 0pt 0pt"><span style="font-size:17pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(2,71,49);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Timeline</span></h2><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="list-style-type:disc;font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(29,29,29);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap;margin-left:17pt"><p dir="ltr" style="line-he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