[from Nick Thieberger]
The 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) was held in Honolulu from March 12-14th this year. With a theme of “supporting small languages together” the emphasis was on collaborations, between
linguists and speakers, and between linguistics and other disciplines.
Over 300 people attended the conference with over 150 presentations on offer. When we began planning the conference we thought we may get 70 or 80 proposals and so we planned on a three day conference. However, despite rejecting nearly a third of the proposals, we still had a full schedule with up to six parallel sessions. Since this would result in participants missing some papers that they wanted to hear we decided to record as many papers as we could. We have now placed some 120 recordings online, together with pdf files and images of the presenters. This can be accessed here, and searched by presenter or by title.
There were four conference plenaries: Nikolaus Himmelmann discussed the nature of linguistic data and documentation; Paul Newman played devil’s advocate, suggesting ways in which language documentation could rethink some directions; Phil Cash Cash talked about an insider’s perspective on documentation for promotion of language use; Leanne Hinton ended the conference giving us inspiration about the ways in which language reintroduction is working in various North American language communities.
The full schedule, with abstracts, can be seen here.
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