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.

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 Münster
Leanne Hinton, UC Berkeley
Paul Newman, Indiana University, University of Michigan
Phil Cash Cash, University of Arizona

Conference sponsors

UH National Foreign Language Resource Center (NFLRC)
UH National Resource Center - East Asia (NRCEA)
UH Center for Pacific Island Studies (CPIS)

Advisory committee

Helen Aristar-Dry (LinguistList, Eastern Michigan University)
Peter Austin (SOAS, London)
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)
Nikolaus Himmelmann (Institut für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft
Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster)
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 für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Universität 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)