Call for Graduate Student Travel Fund Applications for AAA

We are offering 10 awards of $350 to graduate students in travel funds or conference registration for students interested in attending our workshop on “Technological Methodologies in Language Documentation and Anthropology” at the American Anthropological Association Conference this year (details of workshop below). Funding recipients must be available to attend all 4 two-hour workshops activities.

Application procedures:
Students should email a brief proposal (250 words max) to Dr. Jenny Davis (Loksi@Illinois.edu) outlining why you want to attend the workshop, including how it will benefit your research and any previous training in the area you have received.

Preference will be given to students whose research directly involves language documentation, description, and/or revitalization with Indigenous and endangered language communities.
Applications are due on Monday, October 30, 2017.

Technological Methodologies in Language Documentation and Anthropology
Wednesday, November 29
8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Location: Marriott, Park Tower 8217
Washington D.C.

Workshop Description:
Granting agencies funding anthropological research are increasingly requiring clearly articulated data management plans that describe collection methods, the data format, archiving plan, storage and security of data during the research period, and dissemination plan. These components are dependent on the following: (1) aspects of consent and intellectual property rights that apply across multiple anthropological fields, (2) an understanding of the methods and limitations of reformatting or conversion of digital audio and video files, (3) an understanding of digital file sizes, and (4) interpreting the requirements of archives in order to increase the data's ability to be forwardly migrated. This workshop will facilitate conversation across subfields connected to language and culture documentation from collection to analysis and finally the archiving of research materials. It will also prepare researchers for addressing granting agency and archival standards at various stages of research development. For emerging scholars, this workshop provides training and information regarding critical issues before designing and conducting language documentation research. It will also be relevant for those in later stages of research considering digitizing, analyzing, and archiving materials already collected. The researchers coming together to provide this training at the AAA meeting represent a wide range of academic training and experience in language documentation fieldwork in Indigenous and endangered language communities in North America, Latin America, Africa, and Southern Asia. The training session contains four two-hour workshops: (1) producing and working with high-quality audiovisual recordings, (2) annotation, management, and dissemination software, (3) metadata and archiving, (4) and consent, rights, and intellectual property. Since the time for each workshop is limited to two hours, each workshop will also provide substantive resources on each topic for the participants to access after the workshop. Those resources will be part of the materials produced from the workshop to be made publically available.

This workshop is funded by the National Science Foundation/ Documenting Endangered Languages Program Grant no. 1744248 (https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1744248)

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