The Northwest Indian Language Institute is proud to announce

Summer 2010 June 21-July 30, 2010 University of Oregon Eugene, Oregon, USA

Linguistics and Community Members
From Around the World
Will Come Together

From June 21 through July 30, 2010, Northwest Indian Language Institute and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oregon will host linguists and community members from around the world for conferences, Symposia, workshops, and courses on language preservation, maintenance, and revitalization, and the linguistic description and documentation that can support these efforts. 

First, from June 25-27, 2010, we will host the 17th Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium (SILS), the 45th International Conference on Salish and Neighboring Languages, the Athabascan/Dene Languages Conference, and the Hokan-Penutian Languages Conference.

The co-occurrence of these conferences will allow community members/language activists and linguists to come together to share ideas, learn from each other, and facilitate contacts between academic linguists and communities that speak endangered languages.

Beginning June 21, 2010, the next two weeks will see a series of intensive courses and workshops offered by both local experts and specialists from around the globe. The annual NILI Summer Institute will be combined with the second Institute for Field Linguistics and Language Documentation (InField 2010). This two weeks will be filled with two weeks of classes and workshops for community members, language activists and linguists, offering training on a wide range of issues related to language preservation, maintenance and revitalization, linguistic fieldwork and documentation.

Through InField 2010, we will offer one week of supported work in the computer labs (July 5-9), and also one or more 4-week field methods courses (July 5-30). 

Until we have more concrete information about our offerings for InField 2010, we suggest that people who are interested or curious check out the website for InField 2008, in Santa Barbara. As good as InField 2008 was, thanks to the experience we gained working together on that one, we hope to do even better in 2010.