<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><span style="font-size:12.8px">Greetings,</span><br style="font-size:12.8px"><br style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-size:12.8px">The 24th annual Symposium about Language and Society (SALSA) at the University of Texas at Austin is taking place this Friday and Saturday, April 15 and 16. This year's conference theme is </span><i style="font-size:12.8px">Raising Voices</i><span style="font-size:12.8px">. </span><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The finalized conference is schedule is available on our website at: <a href="http://salsa-tx.org/schedule.htm" target="_blank">http://salsa-tx.org/schedule.htm</a><br><br><div>Student registration is $25. Please visit the following link to register: <a href="http://salsa-tx.org/registration.htm" target="_blank">http://salsa-tx.org/registration.htm</a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><center style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><font style="font-size:48px;font-weight:bold">SALSA XXIV: Raising Voices</font><br><br>April 15-16, 2016 at University of Texas at Austin</center><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><hr style="width:700px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:medium"><table style="width:700px;margin:auto;font-size:13px;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><tbody><tr><td>SALSA is an annual symposium promoting linguistic and sociolinguistic research at the University of Texas at Austin. Originally created through the joint efforts of students from the Linguistic and Anthropology Departments, SALSA has developed into an interdisciplinary conference with contributions from various fields, including communication studies, foreign language education, educational psychology, media studies, speech communication, numerous language departments, and various area, critical race, and gender and identities studies. Our annual proceedings appear in special editions of Texas Linguistic Forum. <br><br><br>This year's theme is <i>Raising Voices.</i> It is by raising voices that various cultures overlap, connect, and share with each other. Languages encode methods for cultivating the voices of both individuals and groups, drawn together in solidarity through shared experience, growth, hardship, and loss. How are linguistic mechanisms used to cultivate these identities and sense of self? How can we utilize language to amplify cultural voices, and how do we interpret cultural silence? How do ideologies underpin who go gets to raise their voices and who is silenced? How do we use voice to build bridges from within, across, and at the peripheries of cultures when certain voices have been silenced as a result of colonial oppressions and dominant discourses and ways of communicating? With new technologies regularly available, how do we reconstruct voices that have been lost or silenced? SALSA XXIV seeks to explore these questions and more in order to contribute to literature from linguistics, anthropology, communication sciences, and interdisciplinary fields such as queer, critical race, area, and women's and gender studies. <br><br><br>This year's keynote speakers will be: <br><br><center><b>Rusty Barrett</b><br>University of Kentucky<br><br><b>Diana Boxer</b><br>University of Florida<br><br><b>Courtney Handman</b><br>The University of Texas at Austin<br><br><b>Norma Mendoza-Denton</b><br>University of California Los Angeles</center><center><br></center><center style="text-align:left">We look forward to seeing you there!</center><center style="text-align:left"><br></center><center style="text-align:left">Best,</center><center style="text-align:left"><br></center><center style="text-align:left">SALSA XXIV Co-chairs</center><center style="text-align:left"><a href="http://salsa-tx.org/" target="_blank">http://salsa-tx.org</a><a href="http://salsa-tx.org/" target="_blank">/</a></center><center style="text-align:left"><br></center><center style="text-align:left"><br></center></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><img src="cid:ii_imy5pegy1_1540d27ee867ed12" width="313" height="483" class="" tabindex="0"></div></div></div>
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