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<h2 style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference
Fund</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></h2>

<h3 style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Call for Proposals</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></h3>

<h3 style="text-align:center" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Deadline: October 1, 2016 for 2017 Conferences</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)"></span></h3>

<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">SLA announces an initiative to fund conference submissions
promoting the dissemination of activist linguistic anthropology work at venues
beyond the AAA Meetings, in order to promote collaboration across subdisciplinary
and disciplinary boundaries. For example, SLA has supported two special
colloquia on linguistic anthropology and social justice at the <a href="http://www.cal.org/news-and-events/calendar-of-events/aaal-2014" target="_blank">2014</a> and <a href="http://www.aaal.org/?page=Conference2016" target="_blank">2016</a> <a href="http://www.aaal.org/" target="_blank">American Association of Applied
Linguistics</a> conferences, although support is not limited to AAAL or
Linguistics-specific conferences.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">Up to <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">$500
per presenter for up to eight presenters,</span></strong> for
reimbursement of conference travel expenses is available, with a <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">cap of $4,000 per year</span></strong>.
Conference travel expenses include any combination of conference registration,
air or ground travel, hotel, and meals, and receipts are required for
reimbursement. While the session chair must be a current <a href="http://www.americananthro.org/ConnectWithAAA/Content.aspx?ItemNumber=1993" target="_blank">SLA member</a>, presenters do not all need to be SLA members.
However, only current SLA members can receive the travel reimbursement.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">We encourage theoretically sophisticated, methodologically
innovative proposals that enhance public understanding of language in relation
to social equality, challenging problematic “common sense” language assumptions
and ideologies. We particularly encourage proposals that extend work pursued by
the joint CfHR (Committee for Human Rights) and <a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/socialjustice/" target="_blank">SLA
Committee on Language and Social Justice </a>(e.g. on pejorative naming
practices, language policies, and typifications of language forms and practices
that naturalize inequalities) as well as AAA initiatives. We would prioritize
accordingly, assessing proposals as part of a general SLA initiative promoting
public outreach and education.</span></p>

<p style="line-height:18pt"><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">The <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">deadline
for applications</span></strong> is <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">October 1, 2016</span></strong> to fund conference
participation during 2017 (SLA has already committed to funding a 2016 AAAL
conference proposal). This initiative is offered as a 2-3 year trial, pending
current budget exigencies and unknowns regarding SLA’s future journal revenues
and costs. Send completed applications & supporting materials to the SLA
Secretary: <a href="mailto:kristina.wirtz@wmich.edu" target="_blank">kristina.wirtz@wmich.edu</a>
for consideration by the SLA board.</span></p>

<p style="text-align:center;line-height:18pt" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">|</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)"> <a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SLA-Interdisciplinary-Public-Engagement-Fund-Application-12-2015.pdf" target="_blank">Download the Collaborative Funds Application (PDF)</a> <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">|</span></strong></span></p>

<p style="text-align:center;line-height:18pt" align="center"><strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)">|</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:rgb(51,51,51)"> <a href="http://linguisticanthropology.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/SLA-Interdisciplinary-Public-Engagement-Fund-Application-12-2015.docx" target="_blank">Download the Collaborative Funds Application (.docx)</a> <strong><span style="font-family:"Georgia","serif"">|</span></strong></span></p>

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