<div dir="ltr">Dear colleagues,<div><br></div><div>I hope all's well with everyone. I'd just like to let you know that in light of the extension of the deadline for AAA abstracts, Jessi and I have likewise extended our deadline for our CFP for presentations on the theme of language research for resilience (abstract below). If interested, please send 250 word abstracts to <a href="mailto:jlovenic@macalester.edu" target="_blank">jlovenic@macalester.edu</a> and <a href="mailto:jcfine@ucsb.edu" target="_blank">jcfine@ucsb.edu</a> by Sunday, May 10th. </div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div>Julia</div><div><br></div><div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Language research for resilience:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applying linguistic anthropology in times of crisis</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Over the past year, communities around the world have faced myriad crises, including wildfires, flooding, and the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have been shown to disproportionately impact communities of color (Sealey-Huggins 2018), low-income communities (Mendelson et al. 2006), women (Denton 2002), and other frontline groups. Furthermore, we have seen that the language used to conceptualize these crises—</span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Chinese coronavirus, climate change </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">vs. </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">climate crisis, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">and </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">eco-anxiety, </span><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">to name just a few examples—leads to tangible outcomes that likewise disproportionately affect frontline communities. Language, as we know, can mean the difference between apathy and engagement, between individualism and solidarity, between violence and compassion.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">In this panel, we envision how language research can a) address injustice in the face of crisis and b) work towards a safe, just, decolonial, and regenerative future. One vein of this research involves critical work on the discourses used by governments, corporations, and individuals in power to distract, mislead, and disenfranchise others in relation to the climate and COVID-19 crises (Carvalho 2010; Fløttum 2010; Molek-Kozakowska 2017; Stibbe 2014). Another, complementary vein of language research seeks effective, considerate ways of engaging people in community solidarity and resilience, with consideration of medium (Schäfer & Schlichting 2014; Segerberg & Bennett 2011), affect (Chapman, Lickel, and Markowitz 2017; Norgaard 2011; Pihkala 2018), identity and positionality (Jaspal, Nerlich, & Cinnirella 2014; Love-Nichols, 2020), and sociocultural and interactional context (Anderson & Williams 2015). In both these areas, we advocate for research that is accessible, applicable, community-based, decolonial, and intersectional. Some of the topics we consider include:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Examples of research</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Community-based and/or critical research on language and climate justice</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Community-based and/or critical research on language and the coronavirus</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">Work that considers the intersections of the above topics with raciolinguistics (Rosa & Flores 2017), Indigenous epistemologies (e.g. Baldwin & Colebrook 2018), language, gender, and (a)sexuality, language and disability justice, decoloniality, and other topics related to language and social justice</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Questions</span></p><br><ul style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px"><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can researchers within academia build partnerships with activist organizations, community stakeholders, and media outlets?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can we reframe the goals of our research to center immediate community needs over contributions to scholarship for scholarship’s sake?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can we share our work in more accessible ways?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can we engage people in citizen science related to themes of language and climate justice and COVID-19 justice?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">What other academic disciplines should we engage with, and how should these engagements be structured?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can we change the way we teach to be more accessible and more supportive of student activists?</span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="margin-left:36pt;list-style-type:disc;font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline">How can we change the way we conference to be more accessible and sustainable?</span></p></li></ul><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;text-indent:36pt;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">We warmly invite contributions from researchers working on questions of language and social justice, language and the environment, language and public health, and any other related topic.</span></p></div></div>