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Hello all,</div>
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The <a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/program" target="_blank" id="OWA0d90f043-dd32-8d94-900d-746ef3f0522d" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.2025slaconference.org/program" rel="noopener noreferrer">
2025 SLA conference program</a> is now live! Many, many thanks to Program Chair, Josh Babcock, Program Committee members, our many (blind) reviewers, and data entry volunteers for all their work in pulling this together. </div>
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In addition to the panels, please plan on attending the Welcome Reception on Thursday (6:30-10:30) and the Poster Plenary on Friday (5:30-8:30). Graduate students: please also plan to join for a Student Mixer on Saturday (7 pm-11:30 pm)--more details to come
on each of these events. </div>
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REGISTRATION: If you haven’t already, please <a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/register" target="_blank" id="OWAf92acfea-cce3-e424-dbd3-53157b5ce336" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://www.2025slaconference.org/register" rel="noopener noreferrer">
register</a> for the conference as soon as possible. This will assure that we can plan, budget and accommodate all attendees. Remember that all of those listed on the program must register for the conference.</div>
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HOUSING: With detailed program information at hand, we urge attendees to finalize travel and housing arrangements. Please note that the SLA has secured a discounted group rate for rooms at three hotels within walking distance to the conference venue. All three
hotels still have available rooms for conference attendees. However, our holds on this housing will expire very soon: so please make your reservations as soon as possible using the direct
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booking links</a> on the conference website. </div>
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VOLUNTEERING: Registering for the 2025 conference includes <a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNr5qWRdq4i_Wq7-dBvFYIrHLFLdGJXClC8jP3D3ob1_Smhg/viewform" target="_blank" id="OWA5ea33336-1c52-2b6f-11f0-42cfa2c62bfd" class="OWAAutoLink" title="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNr5qWRdq4i_Wq7-dBvFYIrHLFLdGJXClC8jP3D3ob1_Smhg/viewform" rel="noopener noreferrer">
signing up</a> for one hour of volunteer time. Please do so by <b>May 1st.</b> (<b>PLEASE</b> <b>NOTE</b>: For those who were good enough to complete the volunteer sign-up form before Thursday April 17th, we are sorry to report that you will have to sign up
again as the information was not properly recorded. Thank you for those who have already done so).</div>
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Looking forward to seeing many of you in May!</div>
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Summerson (on behalf of the 2025 SLA Conference Steering Committee)</div>
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<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">**********************************************************************************************</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">E. Summerson Carr, Professor</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice<b>//</b>Department of Anthropology</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">Faculty Associate, Center for Gender Studies & Department of Comparative Human Development</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">University of Chicago</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 10pt;">President of Society of Linguistic Anthropology, 2023-2025</span></p>
<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif;"> </span></p>
<p><img alt="A book cover with text and images of a person and person
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<p><span style="font-family: Garamond, serif; font-size: 9pt;"><i><a href="https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/W/bo201564143.html" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;">Working the Difference: Science, Spirit, and the Spread of Motivational
Interviewing</a></i> (Chicago, 2023)</span></p>
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