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From http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org/

The 4th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC), "Enriching Theory, Practice, & Application," will be held February 26-March 1, 2015, at the Ala Moana Hotel in Honolulu. The 4th ICLDC is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

The conference program will feature two keynote talks, an integrated series of Master Class workshops and four Special Sessions on Pedagogy in Language Conservation. An optional Hilo Field Study (on the Big Island of Hawai’i) to visit Hawaiian language revitalization programs in action will immediately follow the conference (March 2-3).

The theme of the 4th ICLDC, "Enriching Theory, Practice, and Application," highlights the need to strengthen the links between language documentation (practice), deep understanding of grammatical structure (theory), and methods for teaching endangered languages (application). At this conference, we intend to focus on language documentation as the investigation of grammar and linguistic structure, on the one hand, and the development of that investigation into sound pedagogy for endangered languages, on the other. 

Visit the conference website to learn more and to register: http://icldc4.icldc-hawaii.org/