<div dir="ltr"><div id="m_-574547797891612061gmail-:77i"><div id="m_-574547797891612061gmail-:77m" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:256px"><div id="m_-574547797891612061gmail-:4tq"><div id="m_-574547797891612061gmail-:4tm" aria-label="Message Body" role="textbox" aria-multiline="true" style="direction:ltr;min-height:256px"><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Call for Papers for Panel at Sociolinguistics Symposium 24 (13-16 July 2022, Ghent) </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Panel Title</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">: <b>The Ethics, Politics, Histories and Futures of Critical Sociolinguistic Intervention</b> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Abstract</span></b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">:  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Critical Sociolinguistics has emerged over the last three decades from an intersection of various fields to define itself today as a field invested in mapping </span>the role of language in the (re)production of social inequality. The notion of ‘mapping’, however, raises questions about the nature of our critique and the contributions it can make in the active undoing and reimagining of processes of social inequality. While there is a long history of public engagement within Critical Sociolinguistics and the fields which inspired it – most notably in the Ebonics debate in the USA – there is still a palpable unease today within Critical Sociolinguistics regarding the nature, purpose and challenges of critique and of researcher intervention – that is, how we can mobilise the knowledge we produce in order to effect change (Kraft & Flubacher 2020). This unease is exacerbated further by the shift towards ‘impact’ as a measurement of research quality in the neoliberal university, with which many are sceptical of engaging.  </p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;text-align:justify"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">This panel seeks to bring together researchers in CS who are interested in the alternatives to ‘impact’ and who are wrestling with the (im)possibilities of engagement beyond the academe, the options that are open to us, and the challenges that we may encounter. While this panel shares the assumption that CS can </span> <span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">and should </span>– <span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">be actively engaged in social transformation, we argue that, to do this, a deeper discussion of the ethics, politics and histories of critique and intervention is required, in order to ask if ‘intervention’ can be reimagined in ways that resist reproducing the neoliberal, colonial framings that often shape researcher engagement.  </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">We invite papers that engage with the following questions:<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit">  </span> </span></p><ul type="disc" style="font-weight:inherit;margin-bottom:0cm;margin-top:0cm"><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What is the purpose and nature of critical research and what is its role in social transformation? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What are the ethical and political challenges encountered in critical research intervention projects? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What can critical sociolinguistics learn from fields with different histories of research intervention?  </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">How can an ethics of critical research intervention co-exist alongside, and resist being co-opted by, neoliberalised concepts of ‘impact’? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What are the limits and possibilities of engagements with activism in critical research? </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">To what extent does CS intervention sustain processes of social inequality? How can engagement with our research sites and participants be reimagined for the purposes of social transformation?  </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What is the role of the critical researcher? To whom are we responsible?  </span></li><li class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">What happens when intervention ‘goes wrong’?  </span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">References:  </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kraft, K. and Flubacher, M.-C. (2020) ‘The promise of language: Betwixt empowerment and the reproduction of inequality’, <i>International Journal of the Sociology of Language</i>, 2020(264), pp. 1–23. doi: 10.1515/ijsl-2020-2091 </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">If you would like to participate in the panel (with a 20 minute paper presentation), please send an abstract of 300 words along with the title of your paper, your name, contact details and affiliation, by <b>Wednesday 15^th September 2021 </b>to Katy Highet (</span><a href="mailto:k.highet@ucl.ac.uk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">k.highet@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) or Peter Browning (</span><a href="mailto:peter.browning16@ucl.ac.uk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline" target="_blank"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;color:inherit;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">peter.browning16@ucl.ac.uk</span></a><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">) </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-weight:inherit;margin:0cm;font-size:12pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="margin:0px;padding:0cm;border:1pt none windowtext;font:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">For any further enquiries please contact the organisers (Katy Highet and Peter Browning) at the above email addresses.  </span></p></div></div></div></div></div>