Congratulations to GRSJ PhD Candidate V. Pauahi Souza who recently received the Most Impactful Paper Award at the 2025 International Conference on Language Documentation & Conservation (ICLDC) at University of Hawai’i Mānoa.
Pauahi was a recipient of the award with UBC Linguistic Department PhD Candidate Michelle Kamagaki-Baron for their presentation called “Access to ‘ōlelo Hawai’i Education for Kānaka Maoli Living in the Diaspora – Challenges and Impacts Based on Mental Health and Linguistic Evidence. ”
About the ICLDC
The ICLDC, has, since its inception in 2009, become the flagship conference for the field of language documentation. Every two years, conference attendees gather to share their experiences working on diverse topics related to the preservation of underrepresented languages worldwide. Attendees come from a range of backgrounds: Indigenous language communities, language activism organizations, K–12 school systems, as well as students and faculty from colleges and universities. They represent dozens of countries and hundreds of languages, and they have one goal in mind: supporting small languages together. The ICLDC is hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Resource Center at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
UBC PhD Candidates Michelle Kamagaki-Baron (Linguistics) and V. Pauahi Souza (GRSJ) after their award winning presentation.
