<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail-adn gmail-ads" style="border-left:none;padding:0px;display:flex"><div class="gmail-gs" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 20px;width:836px"><div class="gmail-" style=""><div id="gmail-:1dx" class="gmail-ii gmail-gt" style="direction:ltr;margin:8px 0px 0px;padding:0px"><div id="gmail-:1dy" class="gmail-a3s gmail-aiL" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:1.5;overflow:hidden"><div dir="ltr" style=""><h1 style="text-align:left;line-height:1.32;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><font color="#333333" face="Times New Roman" size="2"><span style="font-weight:400;white-space:pre-wrap">The following is a call for papers for the Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL) in Tucson, AZ </span></font></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.32;text-align:center;margin-top:15pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:27pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Call for Papers</span></h1><h1 dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.32;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:7pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:27pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">SAIL 2023 - April 13-14, 2023</span></h1><h2 dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.32;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:7pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Submission Deadline: December 31, 2022</span></h2><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;text-align:center;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt;padding:0pt 0pt 8pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(51,51,51);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Abstracts are invited for papers on any aspect of American Indian languages</span><span style="font-size:12pt;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"><br><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">The Symposium for American Indian Languages (SAIL) is dedicated to discussion of the </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">documentation & description, conservation, and vitalization of the Indigenous languages </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">of the Americas.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">SAIL provides a forum for the exchange of scholarly research. It brings together </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">scholars, members of the Indigenous communities, native speakers, educators and </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">language activists who are interested in sharing experiences and best practices on </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Times New Roman";font-size:12pt;white-space:pre-wrap">topics related to language documentation, conservation, reclamation, and revitalization.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:ba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igital technologies for language documentation and language revitalization). Indigenous communities are also encouraged to present and promote their language revitalization/maintenance initiatives!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Submission Process:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Abstracts should be up to 500 words or less (excluding examples and/or references).</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Abstracts should include the following:</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">- Title of paper:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">- Name of author(s) and Institutional/Tribal affiliation (if any)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">- Author status (undergraduate/graduate student; post-doc; faculty; and/or member of an Indigenous community)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">- Session (special session / parassession / poster session)*</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Oral presentations will be 20 minutes, followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Special Session and Parassession are limited to 30 minutes. The Poster Session will run for 90 minutes. It provides an opportunity for more open-ended, two-way communication with the audience. Undergraduate students are invited to submit an abstract for this session.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Please submit your abstract in PDF format by email to <a href="mailto:sail.uarizona@gmail.com" target="_blank">sail.uarizona@gmail.com</a> (with the subject: “Abstract – SAIL2023”)</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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">Submission deadline: December 31, 2022.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small;line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:12pt;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-al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