REMINDER: 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) Call for Proposals deadline September 15

[Nick Thieberger]

1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:
Supporting Small Languages Together.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 12-14, 2009
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

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 Munster
* 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
- Community viewpoints on documentation
- 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
- Balancing documentation and language learning

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. Authors may submit no more than one individual and one
joint proposal.

ABSTRACTS ARE DUE BY SEPTEMBER 15th, 2008 with notification of
acceptance by October 17th 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.
All abstracts will be submitted to blind peer review by international
experts on the topic.

** SUBMIT YOUR PROPOSAL ONLINE:  http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/icldc09/call.html

Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit to the
journal Language Documentation & Conservation for publication.

PRESENTATION FORMATS

* PAPERS will be allowed 20 minutes with 10 minutes of question time.
* POSTERS will be on display throughout the conference. Poster
presentations will run during the lunch breaks.
* COLLOQUIA (themed sets of sessions) associated with the theme of the
 conference are also welcome.

For more information, visit our conference website:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09

Enquiries to: ICLDC at hawaii.edu


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