conference call: LSA institute language documentation (fwd)

[Yuphaphann Hoonchamlong]

>Call for Papers and Posters
>LANGUAGE DOCUMENTATION: THEORY, PRACTICE, AND VALUES
>At the 2005 LSA Linguistic Institute- MIT/Harvard
>July 9-10, 2005, and July 11, 2005 - Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
>
>
>Impelled by concerns of the accelerating loss of languages, language
>archiving has emerged as a prominent issue for linguists and for
>heritage language speakers alike.  The quality of documentation
>available for an endangered language can determine the success of
>its revitalization. The present conference has been organized by
>participants in the LSA Conversation on Endangered Languages
>Archiving to bring archiving issues, especially electronic archiving
>issues, before the linguistic community.  Six themes will be treated
>at the public portion of the conference in conventional paper
>presentation sessions, in poster sessions, and in panel
>presentations with open discussion.  These themes are (1) the
>requirement for language documentation training, (2) the concerns
>and involvement of the heritage language communities,  (3) the
>question of what is adequate documentation,  (4) the uses of
>documentation in speaker communities, (5) training and careers in
>field linguistics, and (6) ethics, documentation, and archiving.
>Presenters of papers and posters in the public sessions on July 9
>and 10 will be invited to join the LSA Conversation group on the
>morning of July 11 in a closed session; that closed meeting will be
>the second LSA Conversation to advise the Society on efforts it
>should undertake in endangered language archiving.
>
>Invited Speakers include:
>Peter Austin, SOAS, London, England
>Laura Buszard-Welcher, Rosetta Project and UC Berkeley
>Phil Cash Cash, U of Arizona & Nez Perce Tribe
>Arienne Dwyer, Kansas U
>K. David Harrison, Swarthmore, & Chair, LSA  CELP
>Martha Macri, UC, Davis, & Terralingua
>Paul Newman, Indiana U
>Susan Penfield, U of Arizona
>Keren Rice, Toronto U
>
>We call for papers and posters to be submitted for this conference.
>
>DEADLINE FOR RECEIPT OF PAPER AND POSTER ABSTRACTS:  March 31.
>NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE OF PAPERS AND POSTERS: April 22.
>
>Organizers:  N. Louanna Furbee, LSA Archivist, and members of LSA
>       Conversation on Endangered Languages Archiving
>
>INSTRUCTIONS FOR SUBMISSION:
>To submit an abstract of a paper (15 min.) or poster for
>consideration, prepare a 250-word abstract. Identify at the top of
>the page the conference theme to which the abstract pertains; the
>conference themes are elaborated on below, and the session chairs
>for each are named.  The abstract should carry identification of the
>author(s), the address of the lead author, and an electronic address
>to which correspondence regarding the abstract may be addressed.
>
>E-MAIL the abstract so written and identified to ALL THREE of the
>following persons at the electronic addresses listed:
>       N. Louanna Furbee (<louanna100 at yahoo.com>,
>       Lenore A. Grenoble <Lenore.A.Grenoble at Dartmouth.EDU>,
>       Arienne Dwyer (<anthlinguist at mail.ku.edu>)
>If you cannot comply with the electronic submission requirement,
>please mail five copies your abstract so they will arrive by March
>31, 2005, to:
>       Lenore A. Grenoble
>       Program in Linguistics & Cognitive Science
>       6085 Reed Hall
>       Dartmouth College
>       Hanover, NH  07355
>
>Conference themes and session chairs:
>1) "Training for Language Documentation"
>Session Chair:  Peter Austin, SOAS, London
>This session explores what knowledge and skills are required for
>language documentation and looks at models for training in
>documentation, at community, post-graduate and other levels. What
>would be the ideal
>training course for a language documenter, and how best could it be delivered?
>
>2) "The Involvement of the Heritage Language Communities"
>Session Chair:  Akira Yamamoto, Kansas U
>A collaboration between linguist and community is the ideal in
>language documentation. Three successful models of collaboration are
>presented and then discussed in this session.
>
>3."What Is Adequate Documentation"
>Session Chair: K. David Harrison, Swarthmore C & Chair, LSA CELP
>Adequate documentation covers not only verbal paradigms and digital
>recordings, but also a broad range of knowledge domains, genres,
>speaker
>demographics, and social contexts. It must include folk-knowledge,
>ethnography, oral genres, language attitudes, etc. In other words,
>we need to be willing to go beyond linguistic theory proper to
>adequately document human languages.
>
>4. "The Use of Documentation in Speaker Communities"
>Session Chair: Nicholas Ostler, FEL, UK
>Language documentation of the past is already the foundation for
>language revitalization in may parts of the world. This session
>presents case studies.
>
>5. "Training and Careers in Field Linguistics"
>Session Chair: Martha Ratliff, Wayne State U
>This session will review field work training practices in the U.S.,
>Europe, and Australia. The presentations will contrast the place of
>field work as part of general linguistic training on these three
>continents, and will address the opportunities for a career with a
>field work focus.
>
>6.  "Ethics, Documentation, and Archiving"
>Session Chair:  Alice Harris, SUNY, Stony Brook
>This panel explores the linguist's responsibilities to his
>native-speaker consultants, to the community of speakers, and to the
>community of linguists.   A panel of three will make brief
>presentations, and this will be followed by general discussion.
>
>Contacts:
>N. Louanna Furbee (<louanna100 at yahoo.com>
>Lenore A. Grenoble (<Lenore.A.Grenoble at Dartmouth.EDU>)
>Arienne Dwyer (<anthlinguist at mail.ku.edu>)
>Suzanne Flynn <sflynn at mit.edu> (local arrangements
>
>--
>Margaret W Reynolds
>Executive Director
>Linguistic Society of America
>1325 18th Street, NW
>Suite 211
>Washington, DC  20036
>202-835-1714 (telephone)
>202-835-1717 (fax)