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CFP: 10th International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (Honolulu, Hawai’i)

Deadlines: Workshops and Talk Story sessions August 31, 2026 ; General sessions (Papers, Performances, & Posters) September 30, 2026

The Department of Linguistics and the College of Arts, Languages & Letters at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa are pleased to announce the…

10th International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation:

Arts Sustaining Language

March 4-7, 2027

Honolulu, Hawai‘i, USA

http://www.icldc-hawaii.org

Language lives not only in grammar and lexicon but also in the creative practices of its speakers, as expressed through song, story, performance, crafting, and visual arts. Though traditionally viewed as ancillary to the documentary process, these creative practices are increasingly being incorporated into language documentation workflows. Moreover, the arts play a critical role in furthering and supporting language maintenance and reclamation efforts, helping to sustain intergenerational transmission among minoritized, ancestral, and diaspora languages.

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CFP: Fourth Annual BASEES Baltic Study Group Workshop

Deadline: August 15, 2026


Parallel Memories: People, Place and Environments in the Baltic States
Online, 30-31 October 2026

This year marks forty years since the late-twentieth century independence movements across Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia began to “crystallize around concern over environment” (Misiunas and Taagepera 1993). Indeed, the intertwinement of nature, nation and memories of interwar statehood was a notable source of mass mobilisation throughout the late 1980s. More recently, a new momentum around the study of environment and society, ecological memories, nuclear cultural heritage, emptying places, and land redistribution has been gathering momentum within research on or with the connection to the Baltic states (Rindzevičiūtė 2021; Dzenovska 2023; Annus 2025; Martínez 2026). Building on this, the fourth annual BASEES Study Group on the Baltic States workshop seeks to explore the power of memory in Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania through the lens of place and environment (Martinez 2026; Annus 2025; Schwartz 2006).

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