Call for Proposals: 7th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 7)

[Bradley McDonnell]

(Apologies for cross-posting)
Recognizing RelationshipsThe 7th International Conference on Language
Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC)University of Hawai‘i at MānoaMarch
4-7, 2021

COVID-19 Statement

Due to COVID-19, ICLDC 2021 will be held virtually. The ICLDC 7 organizers
are excited about this year’s theme, and the possibilities for broad
international discussion that an online conference can offer.

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.

We look forward to your participation. Please “join” us!
Conference Theme: Recognizing Relationships

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.

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.

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.
Submission Guidelines

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.



For more information on the requirements for each presentation type and
their proposal submission form, please see the Call for Proposals section
of our conference website
<http://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/call-for-proposals/>.

Timeline

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   June 2020: Call for Proposals announced
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   August 1, 2020: Proposals for Workshops and Talk Story Sessions deadline
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   September 1, 2020: Notification of acceptance to Workshops and Talk
   Story sessions
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   September 30, 2020: Proposal deadline for general papers and posters
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   November 1, 2020: Notification of acceptance for general papers and
   posters
   -

   November 1, 2020: Early registration opens
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   January 31, 2021: Early registration deadline; late registration opens
   February 1
   -

   March 4 – March 7, 2021: 7th ICLDC

Executive Committee

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   Bradley McDonnell <http://www.bradleymcdonnell.org/>, University of
   Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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   Andrea Berez-Kroeker <http://www2.hawaii.edu/~aberez/>, University of
   Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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   Ha‘alilio Williams-Solomon, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
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   Jim Yoshioka <https://nflrc.hawaii.edu/contact/view/34/>, National
   Foreign Language Resource Center

Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to icldc at hawaii.edu.

--
Bradley McDonnell
Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai'i at
Mānoa
Book Review Editor, Language Documentation & Conservation
<http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ldc/>
Organizer, International Conference on Language Documentation &
Conservation 2021 <http://icldc-hawaii.org/>
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