Linguistics Department Events

Special Events

• 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) The Linguistics Department is organizing the 1st International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation (ICLDC) to be held at the University of Hawai‘i at Manoa campus from March 12th-14th, 2009. This is an exciting event with around 150 presentations from a range of international speakers (see the program and abstracts here: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09/icldcSchedule.html). 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. Further details here: http://nflrc.hawaii.edu/ICLDC09/

• Austronesianists will be interested to know that the Eleventh International Conference on Austronesian Linguistics (11-ICAL) will be held from June 22-26, 2009, in Aussois, France, a small village in the French Alps. Dr. Bob Blust will be one of three keynote speakers, along with Nikolaus Himmelmann and Aone van Engelenhoven. Check out the above link to find out more.

Regular Events

• The Department holds a weekly Tuesday Seminar, where local or visiting scholars present research talks. The Colloquium is held in St. John 11 from Noon to 1:15.


• The Austronesian Circle sponsors talks on topics relating to Austronesian linguistics on Thursday evenings throughout the school year. There are usually from four to eight talks a semester, depending on the availability of speakers. The Austronesian Circle has been meeting for more than thirty years. Professor Albert Schutz, schutz@hawaii.edu is the organizer of the Austronesian Circle. Anyone interested in speaking should contact Dr. Schutz.


• The Language Acquisition and Development reading group is an informal reading group focusing on the acquisition of human language.


• The Cognitive Linguistics Research Group is an informal research group focusing on language as a cognition function and the relation between language and other cognitive functions. Meetings are more or less every other week during the semester. For information, contact the organizer, Sachie Maruyama at sachiem@hawaii.edu or So Young Kim at kims@hawaii.edu.

• The Psycholinguistics Interest Group is an informal reasearch group focusing on the production and comprehension of human language.


• The UH Language Documentation Training Center For information, contact the coordinator at uhdoc@ling.lll.hawaii.edu.

Occasional Events

• Corpus Building Workshop: Feb 7, 2005 [Download the PowerPoint file]
• Spring 2004 Web-design Workshop:
  • Session 1: Feb 17, 2004 Session_1 Handout
  • Session 2: Feb 24, 2004 Session_2 Handout

Conferences

• 4th Joint Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America and the Acoustical Society of Japan
• Generative Approaches to Language Acquisition - North America GALANA 2004
• The Tenth Austronesian Formal Linguistics Conference
• The 2001 Pacific Second Language Research Forum