Conferences

This page lists conferences which have a particular focus on language documentation and conservation. For a wider range of conference listings, we recommend that you visit the Linguist List web site.

2013

28 February - 3 March — International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (3rd ICLDC) on the theme Sharing Worlds of Knowledge, University of Hawai‘i Ma̅noa campus, USA

2012

6 July — Language Endangerment: Methodologies and New Challenges, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK

31 May — 1 June - Language Revitalization in the 21st Century: Going Global, Staying Local, CUNY Graduate Center, New York (download the Conference Announcement PDF here)

17-19 May — 19th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium, Thompson Rivers University, British Columbia, Canada

4-5 May - 5th Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics Conference, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

27-28 April - 15th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

14-15 April - Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages, Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA

3-4 April - 7th European Australianists Workshop 2012, SOAS, University of London, London, UK

2-3 April - 10th Annual Oklahoma Native American Youth Language Fair, Sam Noble Museum, University of Oklahoma, Oklahoma, USA

28-29 March - Native American Language Revitalization Summit, Falmouth Institute, Phoenix, USA

23-24 March — 8th Annual Conference on the Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

9-11 March - 17th Workshop on Structure and Constituency in the Languages of the Americas, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA

9-11 March — Australian Languages Workshop, North Stradbroke Island, Queensland, Australia

6-8 January — World Language Meet and Chotro Four Imagining The Intangible: Languages, Literature and Visual Arts of the Indigenous, Vadodara, India

2011

12-14 December — Sustainable data from digital research: Humanities perspectives on digital scholarship, University of Melbourne, Australia

18-20 November — Language Documentation and Linguistic Theory 3, School of Oriental and African Studies, London, UK

17-19 November — 4th Annual Tusweca Tiospaye Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit 2011, Rapid City, South Dakota, USA

30 October - 2 November — Symposium on Teaching and Learning Indigenous Languages of Latin America (STLILLA-2011), University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

24-25 October — ILI Symposium Series 2011 Native Languages Everywhere, Everyday for Everyone: Immersion Methods for All Environments, Hyatt Regency Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA

20-22 October — Language Death, Endangerment, Documentation & Revitalization, Milwaukee, WI, USA

6-8 October — Conference On Indigenous Languages Of Latin America V, University of Texas at Austin, USA

7-10 September — FEL XV Voces e imágenes de las Lenguas en Peligro Endangered Languages - the Voices they Project, and the Images they Present, Quito, Ecuador

18-19 August — Strengthening language maintenance through cooperative training strategies, Melbourne, Australia

14-18 August — World Indigenous Peoples Conference on Education (WIPC:E), Cusco, Peru

30 July — Record-a-thon workshop, Rosetta Project, Internet Archive, San Francisco, USA

22-23 July — Language Contact, Change, Maintenance and Loss, Fyvie Hall, University of Westminster, 309 Regent Street, London, UK

13-24 June — Breath of Life Archival Institute for Indigenous Languages, Washington, DC, USA. Applications due March 1; application materials are available on Linguist List.

20-22 May — 18th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium on the theme Language and Community: Building Collaboration in Revitalization Work, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

10-13 May — Puliima 2011, Brisbane, Australia

22-23 April — Conference on Endangered Languages and Cultures of Native America, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

16-17 April — Oklahoma Workshop on Native American Languages (OWNAL) Northeastern State University, Tahlequah, Oklahoma, USA

15-16 April — Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2011) University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

7-8 April — Languages of the Wider World: Understanding Resilience and Shift in Regional and Minority languages Fryske Akademy, Leeuwarden, Fryslân, The Netherlands

25 March — Language Endangerment: Documentation, Pedagogy, and Revitalization, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, Cambridge, UK

11-13 March — 10th Australian Languages Workshop, North Stradbroke Island, QLD, Australia

11-13 February — 2nd International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (2nd ICLDC) on the theme Strategies for Moving Forward, University of Hawai‘i Ma̅noa campus, USA

4-5 February — The American Indian Development Institute Presents: Technology and Hands-on Approaches to Indigenous Language Documentation, University of Arizona, USA

2010

10-11 December — Archiving Orality and Connecting with Communities: World Oral Literature Project 2010 Workshop, Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (CRASSH), 17 Mill Lane, University of Cambridge, UK

20-21 November — Minority Language in Today's Global Society: Alive and Digital Trace Foundation, 132 Perry St., Suite 2B, New York, NY, USA

12-13 November — Models for Capacity Development in Language Documentation and Conservation, ILCAA, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Japan

8-11 November — International Conference on Papuan Cultural Diversty in the Mosaic of Indonesian Cultures, Gedung Sasana Krida dan Sasana Karya, Kantor Gubernur Papua, Jln. Soa Siu, Jayapura, Papua, Indonesia

13-15 September — FEL XIV Reversing Language Shift: How to Re-awaken a Language Tradition, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David, Carmarthen, Wales

10-11 September — Humanities of the Lesser-Known conference on the theme New directions in the description, documentation and typology of endangered languages and musics, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University, Sweden

6-9 September — The Trondheim Workshop in Language Description and Documentation,  Norwegian University of Science and Technology

13-15 July — Information Technologies and Indigenous Communities (ITIC), The Shine Dome, ANU, Canberra, Australia

13-14 July — First Congress of the Indigenous Languages of Chile, University of Santiago de Chile

25-26 June — 17th Annual Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium on the theme Language and Place, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon, USA

6-12 June — Breath Of Life / Silent No More Workshop for California Indian Languages without Speakers, University of California at Berkeley, USA

5-6 June — Save Your Language Conference, W2 Storyeum, 151 West Cordova, Vancouver, BC, Canada