<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><br>The Department of Linguistics and the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…</span></span><img src="cid:ii_moxddge61" alt="ICLDC_2027_twitter.png" width="517" height="172" style="font-size:11pt;text-align:center;white-space:pre-wrap"></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:22px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700">Arts Sustaining Language</span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">March 4-7, 2027</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18px"><a href="http://icldc9.icldc-hawaii.org/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><u><span>http://www.icldc-hawaii.org</span></u></span></span></a></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.4;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Language lives not only in grammar and lexicon but also in the creative practices of its speakers, as expressed through song, story, performance, crafting, and visual arts. Though traditionally viewed as ancillary to the documentary process, these creative practices are increasingly being incorporated into language documentation workflows. Moreover, the arts play a critical role in furthering and supporting language maintenance and reclamation efforts, helping to sustain intergenerational transmission among minoritized, ancestral, and diaspora languages.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">At ICLDC 2027 we hope to facilitate a dialogue that places artistic and creative practice at the heart of language documentation and conservation. The possibilities are vast. Oral literature, theatre, music, dance, visual arts, poetry, film, and digital media all offer pathways for strengthening speaker identity and language awareness, for reaching new generations of learners, and for documenting language in ways that recognize its creative potential. These possibilities also present challenges for the discipline. How do creative practices reshape documentation methodologies? How can collaborations between artists and language activists be structured equitably? What role do emerging media play in amplifying minoritized languages, and what risks do they carry? </span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">In recognition of this conference theme, in addition to traditional presentations, we also welcome and encourage performance-based contributions that demonstrate the connections between art and language. These might include (but are not limited to) storytelling sessions, musical or theatrical presentations, poetry readings, and multimedia installations. We especially invite contributions from language community members and artist-scholar collaborations that center community voices and priorities. </span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(42,42,42)">The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and Workshop sessions, papers, performances, and posters. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawaiʻi) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will take place immediately after the conference (March 8-9). </span></span></span></span></p><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.4;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">We have two separate Calls for Proposals:</span></span></span></p><ul style="max-width:650pt;padding-bottom:5pt;margin:12px 0px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><li style="font-size:11pt;padding:3px 0px;line-height:1.4;list-style-type:disc"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/call-for-proposals/workshops-talk-story-sessions/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700"><u><span>Workshops and Talk Story sessions</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700"> - deadline August 31, 2026</span></span></span></span></li><li style="font-size:11pt;padding:3px 0px;line-height:1.4;list-style-type:disc"><span style="font-size:16px"><a href="https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/call-for-proposals/general-session-proposals/" style="text-decoration:none" target="_blank"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700"><u><span>General sessions (Papers, Performances, & Posters)</span></u></span></span></span></a><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-weight:700"> - deadline September 30, 2026</span></span></span></span></li></ul><p style="margin:0px 0pt 12px 10pt;max-width:650pt;line-height:1.38;font-size:11pt;padding-bottom:5pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:16px"><span style="font-variant:normal;white-space:pre-wrap"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">For details about each Call for Proposals type and its requirements and timelines, please visit the links above. We look forward to your submissions and participation at the conference!</span></span></span></p></div><div><br></div><div><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Conference Co-chairs</span>:</i></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Gary Holton (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Leah Pappas (Dept. of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)</span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><i><span style="box-sizing:border-box">Conference Coordinator</span>:</i></span><br style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px"><span style="color:rgb(29,29,29);font-family:"Open Sans",Arial,Tahoma,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Jim Yoshioka (CALL, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa)</span></div><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">************************************************************</div><span style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande""><b>International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)</b></span><span style="border-collapse:separate;border-spacing:0px"><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Phone: +1-808-956-9424</div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Email: <a href="mailto:icldc@hawaii.edu" target="_blank">icldc@hawaii.edu</a></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande""><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif">Website: <a href="http://icldc-hawaii.org" target="_blank">http://icldc-hawaii.org</a></font></div><div><br></div><div><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="font-size:small">ICLDC</font><span style="font-family:"Lucida Grande""> Facebook page: <a href="http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/" style="font-size:small" target="_blank">http://www.facebook.com/ICLDC/</a></span></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">ICLDC Instagram page: <a href="https://www.instagram.com/icldc_hi/" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/icldc_hi/</a></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande""><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">ICLDC X page: </span><a href="http://www.x.com/ICLDC_HI/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">http://www.x.com/ICLDC_HI/</a><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande""><br></div><div style="font-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">Join our ICLDC listserv: </div><div style="font-size:small;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-size:small;font-family:"Lucida Grande"">************************************************************</div></span></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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