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From http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/conference_2017

Celebrating 20 Years of NILI
Local to Global Perspectives on Language Revitalization and Documentation
June 30-July 2, 2017
University of Oregon

The Northwest Indian Language Institute invites abstracts for presentations for next summer’s conference in celebration of NILI’s 20th Summer Institute. Paper presentations will be 30 minutes long followed by 10 minutes of questions. Potential topics of particular interest are:

What have we learned in 20 years? What are we doing better now? What do we need to keep working on?

Revitalization:
 Evolving approaches to revitalization
 Training and accrediting language teachers
 Issues of how to handle standardization and variation
 Approaches to working with post-vernacular languages

Community-Directed Documentation
 Evolving best practices: Methods and ethics for working with communities
 Moving to working BY communities: Training speech community members
 Training local academic linguists to utilize best practices
 Our effect on the field of linguistics: How has this approach changed linguistics?
 The global context: How do we work differently in different parts of the world, for example, with North American & Australian communities, as opposed to East Asian, African, or Latin American communities?
 Assessing levels of vitality / degree of endangerment

The deadline for abstract submission is Monday, December 5.

View the full call for papers at http://pages.uoregon.edu/nwili/conference_2017