First International Conference on
Language Documentation and Conservation:
Supporting Small Languages Together.
Honolulu, Hawai'i, March 12-14, 2009
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09
The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) will be held at the Hawaii Imin International Conference Center, on the east side of the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus, 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 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.
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 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.
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
ADVISORY COMMITTEE
Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University) Peter Austin (SOAS) Linda Barwick (Music, University of Sydney) Phil Cash Cash (University of Arizona) Nicholas Evans (Linguistics, Australian National University) Margaret Florey (Linguistics, Monash University) Carol Genetti (Linguistics, University of California, Santa Barbara) Spike Gildea (University of Oregon) Colette Grinevald (University of Lyon) Nikolaus Himmelmann (Institut fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft Westfalische Wilhelms-Universitat Munster) Leanne Hinton (UC Berkeley) Gary Holton (Alaska Native Language Center) Anna Margetts (Linguistics, Monash University) Will McClatchey (Botany, University of Hawai'i) Claire Moyse-Faurie (LACITO, CNRS) Ulrike Mosel (Seminar fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universitat Kiel) Paul Newman (Indiana University, University of Michigan) Yuko Otsuka (Linguistics, University of Hawai'i) Keren D. Rice (University of Toronto) Norvin Richards (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Further details will be published on the conference website:
http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09
Enquiries to: ICLDC@hawaii.edu
