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From 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 Hawai‘i 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.

The conference organizers 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
*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

This is not an exhaustive list and individual papers and/or colloquia on topics outside these remits are warmly welcomed.

Abstracts are due by September 15th, 2008.

For more information, go to http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09/call.html .

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