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Theme: Coming Full Circle: Reevaluating Language Justice, Cultural Democracy & Emancipatory Education
The international transdisciplinary conference revisits the raison d'etre of the founding of NAKEM Conferences as an advocacy organization during the 100th year of the coming of the first llokanos to Hawaii to work in the pineapple and sugarcane plantations. These llokano workers who came in 1906 were later joined by non-llokanos, the Visayans in particular, in 1909, and since then, these indentured workers lived mediated and "remaindered" lives. Elsewhere in the world, the fate of various languages, cultures, and communities deemed not "no national" has been a matter of political and pedagogical calculus, with non-national languages rendered unimportant and, for some, not worth preserving and perpetuating. The homogenizing policy of nations, nation-states, and countries and their ideological apparatus has inaugurated the opposite of language justice, cultural democracy, and liberatory education.
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