[Sealang-l] Call for Proposals: 9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC 9)

[National Foreign Language Resource Center]

The Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource
Center at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…


9th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:

Navigating new realities in diaspora communities

March 6-8, 2025

Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

http://www.icldc-hawaii.org <http://icldc9.icldc-hawaii.org>

One notable achievement of the modern language documentation and
conservation movement has been the (re)centering of community in language
work. Rather than viewing language as an abstract system, documentary
practice increasingly begins with the community, is guided by the
community, and contributes to ongoing maintenance of language in the
community. At the same time the nature of community is changing. Global
forces of migration and urbanization have resulted in the displacement of
language teachers and learners from their traditional communities, and in
many cases these diaspora communities are now larger than the original
communities from which they arose. And yet, whether intentionally or not,
the practice of language documentation and conservation has largely ignored
the diaspora in favor of more traditional undisplaced communities.

At ICLDC 2025 we propose to initiate a dialogue which will turn the
attention of documentary linguistics to the unique needs of diaspora
language communities. The challenges are manifold. Teaching methods
designed for small monolingual rural communities may not be effective in
large multilingual urban settings. Documentation techniques may need to be
adapted to deal with contact scenarios and language shift. Moreover,
displacement may take many forms, so solutions must be tailored to the
unique context in each community. But the challenges are nevertheless real
and pressing. As the pressure of conflict and climate change increasingly
threaten our world, the future of the world’s Indigenous languages may well
hinge on the ability of our field to engage effectively in diaspora
settings.

The conference program will feature Keynote talks, Talk Story and Workshop
sessions, papers, 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 10-11). The
8th Workshop on Computational Methods for Endangered Languages (ComputEL-8)
will take place in Honolulu immediately preceding the conference (March
3-4).

We have two separate Calls for Proposals:


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   Workshops and Talk Story sessions
   <https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/?page_id=1520> - deadline
   August 31, 2024
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   General sessions (Papers, Posters)
   <https://ling.lll.hawaii.edu/sites/icldc/?page_id=1505> - deadline
   September 30, 2024


For details about each Call for Proposals type and its requirements and
timelines, please see visit the links above. We look forward to your
submissions and participation at the conference!


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Phone: +1-808-956-9424
Email: icldc at hawaii.edu

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