<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_attr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><div><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;font-size:1.7rem;font-family:"Open Sans",Tahoma,sans-serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(2,71,49)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Centering Justice in Language Work</strong></h2><h3 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5;font-size:1.5rem;font-family:"Open Sans",Tahoma,sans-serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(2,71,49)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">The 8th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (<a href="http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/" target="_blank">ICLDC 8</a>)</strong></h3><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5;font-size:1.3rem;font-family:"Open Sans",Tahoma,sans-serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(2,71,49)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">Virtual Conference</strong></h4><h4 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:4px 0px 0px;line-height:1.5;font-size:1.3rem;font-family:"Open Sans",Tahoma,sans-serif;text-align:center;color:rgb(2,71,49)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">March 2-5, 2023</strong></h4><div aria-hidden="true" style="box-sizing:border-box;clear:both;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px;height:30px"></div><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Attention to aspects of justice as a social responsibility has been growing in many fields in recent years. Our field should be no exception: the reasons for language shift and loss worldwide are arguably tied to historical and contemporary injustices and inequality. Furthermore, issues of justice affecting speakers and language communities are not just linguistic: a growing body of research shows that linguistic justice intersects with justice in the environmental, health, legal, political, economic, and educational realms.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">While the inherently sociopolitical nature of language work is evident to many practitioners, justice goals are often considered by-products that are secondary in importance to the more traditional scholastic aims of documentary linguistics. Therefore, we believe it is time for the field of language documentation and conservation to develop a framework that establishes justice as both the starting point and end goal of our work. How might such an approach reframe the traditional pursuits of documentation? Could it potentially invert the field’s current motivations and methodologies, asserting language justice as the ultimate goal, and traditional academic pursuits as an expected outcome of such work?</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Our field has not yet held an international conversation on achieving justice within language documentation and conservation, what role language workers play in achieving justice in intersecting realms, and how justice can critically inform, and reform, best practices in language documentation and conservation work. We propose to make the ICLDC8 a venue for this critical and timely conversation. Importantly, we see ICLDC8 as an excellent opportunity for practitioners to build relationships and develop the social infrastructure necessary for working toward a justice-driven model of language work.</p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">The conference program will feature Keynote presentations, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, and posters. The He ʻŌlelo Ola Hilo Field Study, showcasing Hawaiian language K-20 immersion programs, will be integrated into the conference schedule.</p><hr style="box-sizing:content-box;height:0px;overflow:visible;margin:24px 0px;border-right:0px;border-left:0px;border-bottom-style:solid;border-top-color:initial;border-bottom-color:initial;border-top-style:solid;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><h2 style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:0px;line-height:1.5;font-size:1.7rem;font-family:"Open Sans",Tahoma,sans-serif;color:rgb(2,71,49)"><strong style="box-sizing:border-box">PLENARY SPEAKERS</strong></h2><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:6px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Opening Plenary Speaker: <a href="https://politicalscience.manoa.hawaii.edu/noenoe-silva/" rel="noreferrer noopener" style="box-sizing:bo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’elikōlani College of Hawaiian Language, University of Hawai’i at Hilo</i></p><p style="box-sizing:border-box;margin:24px 0px 0px;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif"><i><br></i></p></div><br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><font size="2"><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">************************************************************</div><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><b>International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)</b></span><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Phone: +1-808-956-9424</div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Email: <a href="mailto:icldc@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">icldc@hawaii.edu</a></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Website: <a href="http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/" target="_blank">http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/</a></font></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">ICLDC</font><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""> Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/</a></span></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">ICLDC Twitter page: <a href="http://www.twitter.com/ICLDC_HI/" target="_blank">http://www.twitter.com/ICLDC_HI/</a></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><br></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Join our ICLDC listserv: </div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""><a href="https://listserv.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ICLDC-L&A=1" target="_blank">https://listserv.hawaii.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=ICLDC-L&A=1</a></div><div style="font-family:"Lucida Grande"">************************************************************</div></div></span></font></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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