<div dir="ltr"><div>CFP: Language and Power Conference, May 14-16 Kelowna, British Columbia Canada</div><div><br></div><div>





<p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica">Scholars from across disciplines have analyzed the connections between language and power. As an expressive resource, language empowers us to elicit emotions, tell stories, persuade others, solve problems, and display a stance. In learning and using particular languages, such as Indigenous and heritage languages, we have the power to connect to our communities and imagine our futures. By using language, we also express our multiple, dynamic, and simultaneous identities.</p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:12px;line-height:normal;font-family:Helvetica"><br></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-size:12px;font-family:Helvetica">This conference brings together scholars from diverse disciplinary backgrounds, using multiple methodologies to collaboratively examine the relationship of language and power. Through interdisciplinary discussion, the conference highlights current issues of interest across the social sciences and humanities, including language and empowerment in Indigenous communities, language and identity, language and the political order, and </span><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">language and new media technologies. Our goal is to foreground the diversity of approaches to the study of language as an object, enactment, and producer of power.</font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><br></span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">We invite you to submit an </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">abstract of 300 words to the site </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">below. You will have a choice of </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">format (oral/signed presentation </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">OR poster).</span></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif">Submit abstracts <a href="https://ubc.ca1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_0OJFINqffnuGSUe">here</a> before February 1, 2025.</font></p><p class="gmail-p2" style="margin:0px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal;color:rgb(5,99,194)"><font face="arial, sans-serif"><br></font></p><p class="gmail-p1" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal">
















</p><p class="gmail-p4" style="margin:0px;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-alternates:normal;font-size-adjust:none;font-kerning:auto;font-feature-settings:normal;font-stretch:normal;line-height:normal"><font face="arial, sans-serif" style="">Questions? <a href="mailto:elena.nicoladis@ubc.ca">elena.nicoladis@ubc.ca</a></font></p></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Shannon Ward<div>PhD Anthropology</div><div>འབུམ་རམས་པ།</div><div>མི་སྤྱོད་རིག་པའི་ཚན་ཁག།</div><div><a href="mailto:smw525@nyu.edu" target="_blank">smw525@nyu.edu</a></div></div></div></div>