<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; font-size: large;" class="">Please share far and wide! The symposium is free and open to all!</span><br class=""><div><div class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font class=""><font size="5" class="">Second
Annual Advancing African American Linguist(ic)s Symposium</font><font size="4" class=""><o:p class=""></o:p></font></font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Organizers: Anne Charity Hudley (UC
Santa Barbara), Mary Bucholtz (UC Santa Barbara), Tracy Conner (UC Santa
Barbara) and the Talking College Project
<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span lang="EN" class=""><b class=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(149, 79, 114);" class=""><a href="https://ucsbhbculing.com/advancingaal2019/" class=""><font size="4" class="">https://ucsbhbculing.com/advancingaal2020/</font></a></span></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Time:</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> Friday, August 7, 2020-Saturday,
August 8, 2020 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm Pacific Daylight Time<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Register here: </span></b><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="https://tinyurl.com/AAAL2020" class=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">https://tinyurl.com/AAAL2020</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> <o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Location: </span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Zoom links will be sent to
registered participants.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Description</font></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">We invite research presentations from all perspectives on
African-American language, literacy, and culture for the Second Annual Advancing
African American Linguist(ic)s Symposium. We also invite papers that support
the professional development of African-American linguists.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">There are two presentation options: flash presentations and
general research presentations. <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">●<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class=""> </span></span><!--[endif]--><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Lightning Talks </span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">(open to K-12 students, undergraduates, graduate students,
post-doctoral scholars, faculty, and those in careers beyond academia) will be
5 minutes long for all presenters.<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
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</span></span><!--[endif]--><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Undergraduate general research
presentations</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">
will be 10 minutes long with 5 minutes of questions<o:p class=""></o:p></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:-.25in;
mso-list:l0 level1 lfo1"><!--[if !supportLists]--><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">●<span style="font-stretch: normal; line-height: normal; font-family: "Times New Roman";" class="">
</span></span><!--[endif]--><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">All other general research
presentations</span></b><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">
(open to graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, faculty, and those in
careers beyond academia) will be 20 minutes long with 10 minutes of questions.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Please send abstracts <u class="">in PDF format</u> to </span><span lang="EN" class=""><a href="mailto:hbcuscholars@linguistics.ucsb.edu" class=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class="">hbcuscholars@linguistics.ucsb.edu</span></a></span><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> by July 14, 2020. Abstracts should
be 500 words or less and limited to one page of text. Bibliography,
glossed/transcribed examples, and images may appear on a second page of text
and do not count toward the abstract word limit. Please indicate if you prefer
a flash presentation or an undergraduate or general research presentation.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Abstracts that are exclusively authored by undergraduate
and/or graduate students are particularly encouraged. We also encourage group
submissions.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">On Saturday, we will also be hosting webinars on the
professional experiences of African-American linguists including publication,
tenure and promotion, and strengthening the network of scholars who study
African-American language, literacy and culture. If you are interested in
hosting or moderating a webinar, please email: </span><span lang="EN" class=""><span style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif; color: rgb(17, 85, 204);" class=""><a href="mailto:hbcuscholars@linguistics.ucsb.edu" class="">hbcuscholars@linguistics.ucsb.edu</a></span></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Anne
Charity Hudley will lead a one-hour Q&A session on the state of Black
people in linguistics. We will discuss the further development of JBLAC (The
Journal of Black Language and Culture) and SOBLAC (The Society of Black
Language and Culture)</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Mary
Bucholtz will lead a one-hour Q&A session on how to be anti-racist with a
focus on white allies/co-conspirators/accomplices. <o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Shelome
Gooden will lead a panel on Black linguists in administrative leadership
positions</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">We
will also have hangout rooms so that people can meet and network online!</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Notifications
will be sent to selected presenters by July 28</span><sup style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">th</sup><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> and confirmation of
participation is requested by August 1st.</span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Schedule:</span></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><font size="4" class=""><b class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""> </span></b><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class="">Friday, August 7</span></u></b></font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Presentations
and talks that highlight research as well as the academic and social support of
African-American linguists.</font></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b class=""><u class=""><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">Saturday, August 8: A Day of
Rejuvenation for Black linguists<o:p class=""></o:p></font></span></u></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN" style="line-height: 115%; font-family: "Times New Roman", serif;" class=""><font size="4" class="">A
day of virtual connection and healing. Also, a celebration of accomplishments,
and conversations on the state of Black people in linguistics and related areas
with a particular focus on #BlackInTheIvory</font></span></p><div class=""><div class=""><font size="4" class=""><br class=""></font></div><font size="4" class=""><img apple-inline="yes" id="532FC95A-3BD3-4E8A-9094-3054463E781C" class="" src="cid:163CCEB8-ACEA-4708-91E8-C46EAC124919@resnet.ucsb.edu">
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