Upcoming Events

• The Twelfth Conference on Laboratory Phonology (LabPhon 12) will be held Friday July 8 through Saturday July 10, 2010 at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. The theme of this edition of the conference is Gesture as language; gesture and language. The aim is to bring together researchers with a gestural perspective on language (articulatory phonology, sign language, gestural accompaniments to language, etc). A special session is planned on the diversity of gestures used in spoken languages with a focus on native languages of the Americas. The invited speaker for this session is Sharon Hargus (University of Washington) and the discussant is Heriberto Avelino (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology). Contributions from SSILA members are invited for this session or on any relevant topic. Submission deadline is Nov 20 2009. More information as well as the call for papers can be found on the conference website: http://www.unm.edu/~labfon12/.
• The North American Association for the History of the Language Sciences, which meets concurrently with SSILA and LSA, solicits submissions from members of SSILA to a special session on the historiography of indigenous languages of the Americas, to be held at the NAAHoLS annual meeting Baltimore MD, 7-10 January 2010. We are interested in research on any aspect of the history of how indigenous languages have been studied and analyzed. All presenters must be NAAHoLS members (contact the the Secretary at dboe@nmu.edu for details). Papers will be 20 minutes, with 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts, which should not exceed 500 words, may be submitted as hard copies or as file attachments (MS Word only). The submission deadline is 1 September 2009. Abstracts should be sent to: David Boe, Department of English, Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI 49855; (906) 227-2677; dboe@nmu.edu.
• The 2009 Conference on Community-Based Language Revival will be hosted by The Three Rivers Language Center, Indiana University-Purdue University, Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 29-30, 2009.
  Community and tribal organizations, educators, linguists, and anyone else interested are invited to participate in a conference on reviving endangered languages. Special emphasis will be on the participation of the language community. Abstracts are now being taken for conference presentations, sessions, and workshops.
  The keynote address will be given by Daryl Baldwin of the Myaamia Project at Miami University and Scott Shoemaker of the Miami Nation of Indiana. The conference will also include dinner with an Old Order Amish family and a special viewing of original prints from the Curtis collection.
• The 44th International Conference on Salish and Neighbouring Languages will be held August 3-5, 2009 in Missoula and Pablo, Montana. Here is the second call for papers. Further information is available at the conference web site: http://icsnl.org.