1st International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation

This is an excellent opportunity to learn more about some of the topics in this class, especially language documentation and conservation and there will a number of presentations about languages in the Pacific, including one by me.

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.

There will be over 150 presentations from Australia, Cameroon, Canada, Chile, Egypt, French Polynesia, FSM, Germany, Indonesia, Japan, Mexico, Nepal, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, the Philippines, Russia, Senegal, the Solomon Islands, Taiwan, Tokelau, the UK, and the USA.

For more information or to find out how you can attend, ask me in class.