Call for papers, 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation

[Nick Thieberger]

The *1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation
(ICLDC) * will be held at the
<http://www.eastwestcenter.org/about-cc.asp>University
of Hawai'i at Manoa <http://manoa.hawaii.edu/> , from *March 12th-14th, 2009
*. There will also be an optional opportunity to visit Hilo, on the Big
Island of Hawai'i, in an extension of the conference that will focus on the
Hawaiian language revitalization program, *March 16th-17th.*

It has been a decade since Himmelmann's article on language documentation
appeared and focused the field into thinking in terms of creating a lasting
record of a language that could be used by speakers as well as by academics.
This conference aims to assess what has been achieved in the past decade and
what the practice of language documentation within linguistics has been and
can be. It has become apparent that there is too much for a linguist alone
to achieve and that language documentation requires collaboration. This
conference will focus on the theme of collaboration in language
documentation and revitalization and will include sessions on
interdisciplinary topics.
Plenary speakers include:

Nikolaus Himmelmann, University of Münster
Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
Paul Newman, Indiana University, University of Michigan
Phil Cash Cash, University of Arizona
Topics

We welcome abstracts on the issue of a retrospective on language
documentation–an assessment after a decade, and on topics related to
collaborative language documentation and conservation which may include:

   - Community-based documentation/conservation initiatives
   - Issues in building language documentation in collaborative teams
   - Interdisciplinary fieldwork
   - Collaboration for mobilization of language data
   - Technology in documentation – methods and pitfalls
   - Graduate students and documentation
   - Topics in areal language documentation
   - Training in documentation methods – beyond the university
   - Teaching/learning small languages
   - Language revitalization
   - Language archiving

This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or colloquia on
topics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.
Abstract submission

Abstracts should be submitted in English, but presentations can be in any
language. We particularly welcome presentations in languages of the region.

*Abstracts are due by September 15th, 2008, with notification of acceptance
by October 17th, 2008.
Abstracts will be submitted online via the conference webpage (available
July 2008).*
We ask for *abstracts of 400 words* for online publication so that
conference participants can have a good idea of the content of your paper
and a *50 word summary* for inclusion in the conference program.

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the journal
*Language Documentation & Conservation <http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/>* for
publication.

Further details will be published on the conference website:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

Enquiries to: ICLDC at hawaii.edu
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