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Dear All,</div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Please join us in Chicago later this month for the 2025 Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) conference:<a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);"><i><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Imagination</a></u></i><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">,
</a></u><i><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Creation</a></u></i><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">,
</a></u><i><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/" id="OWA3c84c335-3415-097f-52bb-0f9f85e83f64" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(70, 120, 134);">Critique</a></u></i></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">. </span></div>
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The conference invites participants to explore the many ways that imagination shapes, reproduces, and transforms social worlds across times, spaces, and scales through discursive and non-discursive processes and practices. Starting with the idea of
<i>imagination</i> 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? 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? 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 convenes anthropologists across sub-fields as well as colleagues working in neighboring disciplines.</div>
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The conference also experiments with new ways of gathering and innovative forms and formats of presenting scholarly work in the hopes of democratizing the event and thereby providing robust opportunities for students. For instance, in lieu of keynote addresses,
we will host a single plenary poster session, with senior, well-known scholars presenting their work alongside students and other emerging scholars. “Making and Doing” sessions—which include a session devoted to making language visible through illustration
and other graphic techniques and a live podcast recording about language and global politics—are workshops that result in tangible products. </div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Registration</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If you are interested in joining us, please<a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/register" id="OWA757a0776-186d-ccd9-e58c-d4c7e89c9c5e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/register" id="OWA757a0776-186d-ccd9-e58c-d4c7e89c9c5e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">register</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for
the conference as soon as possible. There are a limited number of full conference registration spaces left, as well as single-day rates for non-presenting attendees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Lodging</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">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. In order to both distribute on-the-ground
conference labor and to promote sociality and conviviality between all conference participants, all registrants must sign up for one hour of volunteer time during the conference. Please use these direct<a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/housing" id="OWAefc23c0e-7e92-7dbe-97eb-d9c3f8a1c403" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://www.2025slaconference.org/housing" id="OWAefc23c0e-7e92-7dbe-97eb-d9c3f8a1c403" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">booking links</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> on
the conference website. </span></div>
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<span style="font-weight: 700;">Volunteering</span></div>
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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">In order to both distribute on-the-ground conference labor and to promote sociality and conviviality between all conference participants, all registrants are asked to<a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNr5qWRdq4i_Wq7-dBvFYIrHLFLdGJXClC8jP3D3ob1_Smhg/viewform" id="OWA1c1f05f6-70d8-6dd1-c4ca-34bec747972e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">
</a></span><span style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);"><u><a href="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdNr5qWRdq4i_Wq7-dBvFYIrHLFLdGJXClC8jP3D3ob1_Smhg/viewform" id="OWA1c1f05f6-70d8-6dd1-c4ca-34bec747972e" class="OWAAutoLink" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204);">sign
up</a></u></span><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> for one hour of volunteer time during the conference. </span></div>
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We look forward to welcoming you to the SLA Conference at the University of Chicago later this month.</div>
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Sincerely,</div>
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The SLA Conference Steering Committee (Josh Babcock, Dominika Baran, Summerson Carr, Thea Strand)</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>
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<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>
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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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