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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:red">Imagination, Creation, Critique<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:red">The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:red"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:red">May 29–31, 2025
</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif;color:red">| The University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">What does it mean to imagine today?<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Conference invites participants to explore the many ways that<i> imagination</i> critically shapes, reproduces, and transforms social
worlds across times, spaces, and scales through discursive and non-discursive processes and practices. Starting with the idea of imagination as movement toward a thing, state of affairs, and/or set of ideas that does not (yet) exist, we prompt participants
to ask: Who imagines? What gets imagined? Toward what ends and with what effects? How do particular imaginaries resist or engage practices and technologies of mediation? What happens when imagination is not just linked to, but is also untethered from temporal
terms and logics? What is the relationship between imagination and forms of individual and collective action, including narrative, claims-making, and other rhetorical modes? How can we understand the myriad instantiations of imagination, creation, and critique—from
innovation, construction, or invention to destruction, violence, or the reinforcement of the status quo?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Signs of imagination are never singular, and like all signs, they are always implicated in what they are not. Accordingly, conference participants will engage together with what
gets constructed as <i>other</i> in particular imaginings while also attending to the horizons of
<i>the otherwise</i> that variously emerge in discourse, embodied habits, and other forms of social and institutional life.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">We welcome proposals that make use of varied methods and frameworks to engage with the role of language, communication, and discourse. We also encourage work on imagination, creation,
and critique that is not narrowly or overtly linguistic. The conference will convene linguistic anthropologists, anthropologists across sub-fields, and linguists; we additionally look forward to the participation of colleagues working within Area Studies,
Black Studies, Comparative Racial and Ethnic Studies, English Language and Literature, Gender and Sexuality Studies, History, Performance Studies, Postcolonial/Decolonial Studies, and other fields in the Humanities and Social Sciences.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Submissions will be due December 6, 2024</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Details on submissions soon to follow!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">**********************************************************************************************<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">E. Summerson Carr, Professor<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice<b>//</b>Department of Anthropology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">Faculty Associate, Center for Gender Studies & Department of Comparative Human Development<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">University of Chicago<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif">President of Society of Linguistic Anthropology, 2023-2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><img width="58" height="86" style="width:.6in;height:.9in" id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image001.jpg@01DB13F2.F5EEC180" alt="A book cover with text and images of a person and person
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo201564143.html"><span style="color:#0563C1">Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational
Interviewing</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond",serif"> (Chicago, 2023)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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