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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Dear Colleagues,<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="p1" style="margin:0in"><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">The 2022 SLA Virtual Track Co-Organizers and Conference Organizing Team invite you to join us for two exciting virtual events.</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/secure-web.cisco.com/1Na3mHDSwrJpkPlh7V-BZFvOsSDpnUz6OiYgSa2kw3ze3paF0TSXZwjM9NkIVX80n-bkKN38rvqk_t93uvxsZFunLFugSWSziw7iFb8dg3v8EydwRcgKmz9tVu7QsQS0jqxTOv_4AWe7kuXQ79tp_tBxJLOOuhzAbKOeokRvcbLbBjHy4WvEWl0xX-L4X2WOeGEh0x1xV50dra4ss02LRMYE_HEQA78uQT4lZfH7DzOCgG1yjV5qcvxnB9D7NSnnAuj6p6Lpw7gZlJmz0k-lfXFXZd80Cgbsf6VS20c4c02XH_ZjoITuHHPdAdv0nwUQW0PPbRYLO4d0zo8ZcxKkFrG9I6u7Z_wbwDN9ekhfL27bhDUfM_DEckxlkVuZq2akqiZMgkeWDvaJEwycv8YCnIG55YMdHxKY3EanO73aOuYHOyHTgN0jCCy3EGcsE7-Q0/https*3A*2F*2Fmy.americananthro.org*2Fnc__event*3Fid*3Da0l8W00000UpZBOQA3__;JSUlJSUl!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tj6Xx6ZgIYCNuylLmtjefCco-83m1jHZyXdX2faFQaRFZi_BJZGXiQjH-4Z3CRl3ZZB9-g$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/secure-web.cisco.com/1Na3mHDSwrJpkPlh7V-BZFvOsSDpnUz6OiYgSa2kw3ze3paF0TSXZwjM9NkIVX80n-bkKN38rvqk_t93uvxsZFunLFugSWSziw7iFb8dg3v8EydwRcgKmz9tVu7QsQS0jqxTOv_4AWe7kuXQ79tp_tBxJLOOuhzAbKOeokRvcbLbBjHy4WvEWl0xX-L4X2WOeGEh0x1">Register
for the virtual track today to join</a>! We will be sending an email to all registrants with the link and password for entering the Gather space before the Happy Hour begins on Thursday.</span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">(1) Thursday, March 31, 2022 | 4:30–6pm MT / 5:30–7pm CT / 6:30–8pm ET</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Pre-Conference Happy Hour in Gather</span></b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Join our virtual meet-and-greet to learn how to use Gather and explore the SLA 2022 virtual space! Register for the virtual track to take a guided tour of the online conference
“venue,” visit the room where you will be presenting, and chat with other attendees.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">(2) Wednesday, April 6, 2022 | 2–4pm MT / 3–5pm CT / 4–6pm ET</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Virtual Pre-Conference Keynote: Dr. Krystal A. Smalls</span></b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">“Signs of Life: A Raciosemiotic Look at the Meaning and Matter(ing) of Black Life”</span></b></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">What do Black lives mean? What do they mean in the US, other settler/slave states, and across the world? Online and in the flesh? Using a raciolinguistic and raciosemiotic
framework, this talk enlists linguistic anthropology and a vast swath of Black theory to explore the semiosis of Black diasporic life among young people from different parts of the world. In particular, this talk considers how – against, through, and beyond
anti-Blackness – young activists and scholars are conjuring Black meaning and</span></span><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> </span></span><span class="s2"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">mattering.
The talk will be followed by a post-keynote discussion in Gather.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Krystal Smalls is Assistant Professor in Anthropology and Linguistics at the University of Illinois Urbana</span></span><span class="s3"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">-Champaign.</span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Curious to learn more about Gather?</span></b></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/secure-web.cisco.com/13wHG_N9ELyerzcBNTFwyV5XX85Fsk3ROnb2rnPldhTS9Y_SQ6YlC5K0zjgzoETLRJtZ7n7T9ESeVE5Ovj_ecJQXCEOKt_CoGnqy_BLBaf5MeZT_66z0ng-fOHYqRfRj85pITZOlhrGJvbwLPHsweDuh2zMty-HlsjgPvFc_MkOi9UBTPHjzejPz2WnTo-dJ45F9iuiCACEro1ya5Zoj9RtqhbjEn_44Oe1jjd-wkxXeXHv74gGwKP9kMYlLQtous53F8gQGTAsOfhUAeOlhlZ0e0Ew8jNlIy4I9ZpiCzbivlMW_jCtmLvKXTaI9PZJrTR2iBmr3UJkAUSNLFBCnobp9UNekUlR-td_rOLgOJir6iVzsX8wbTt1fxGB72imNih2TOcoYglBKAiWkd59d-mfr-vRto4t4I7dFl_EgHRChqvYyTzFS_VC21TWu3XYF0/https*3A*2F*2Fwww.youtube.com*2Fwatch*3Fv*3Drw3HaZ0gXzQ__;JSUlJSUl!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tj6Xx6ZgIYCNuylLmtjefCco-83m1jHZyXdX2faFQaRFZi_BJZGXiQjH-4Z3CRm_Z9JUvQ$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/secure-web.cisco.com/13wHG_N9ELyerzcBNTFwyV5XX85Fsk3ROnb2rnPldhTS9Y_SQ6YlC5K0zjgzoETLRJtZ7n7T9ESeVE5Ovj_ecJQXCEOKt_CoGnqy_BLBaf5MeZT_66z0ng-fOHYqRfRj85pITZOlhrGJvbwLPHsweDuh2zMty-HlsjgPvFc_MkOi9UBTPHjzejPz2WnTo-dJ45F9iui"><span class="s4"><span style="color:blue">Watch
this trailer</span></span></a> for an overview of what you can do in the Gather.town platform, and <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsL93ULcKZ8s9PNep-UfPjCa0aUZMlvrj__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tj6Xx6ZgIYCNuylLmtjefCco-83m1jHZyXdX2faFQaRFZi_BJZGXiQjH-4Z3CRnHvmHTrw$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsL93ULcKZ8s9PNep-UfPjCa0aUZMlvrj__;!!BpyFHLRN4TMTrA!tj6Xx6ZgIYCNuylLmtjefCco-83m1jHZyXdX2faFQaRFZi_BJZGXiQjH-4Z3CRnHvmHTrw$"><span class="s4"><span style="color:blue">check
out this playlist</span></span></a> for a guided tour of the platform’s key functionalities. </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Find the full conference program on the official <a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/trello.com/b/XePCVlsK/sla-2022-spring-conference-full-schedule__;!!OToaGQ!5hB0r9iR8MpHEsSXOAhlC4niqVirRj3y7EkcwfRsEVJKIvLfovffsHHt55dW0OsGyZhG$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https:/trello.com/b/XePCVlsK/sla-2022-spring-conference-full-schedule__;!!OToaGQ!5hB0r9iR8MpHEsSXOAhlC4niqVirRj3y7EkcwfRsEVJKIvLfovffsHHt55dW0OsGyZhG$"><span class="s4"><span style="color:blue">SLA 2022
Trello Board</span></span></a>. </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span class="s1"><b><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black">Questions?</span></b></span><span class="s1"><span style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica Neue";color:black"> Contact the conference organizers at <a href="mailto:SLABoulder@gmail.com" title="mailto:SLABoulder@gmail.com"><span style="color:#0078D4">SLABoulder@gmail.com</span></a>. </span></span><span style="color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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