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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and others’ research?</b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Check out the new
</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: purple;"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://americandialect.org/research-incubator-adsri1/__;!!Mak6IKo!J8FCeL2b_Te3NtwfKmQggrE-papjYK6D00O-dfGpDeWhPSWCLqKkpW1lo8CwpCPEkJ8vodZWgs35FjM699xgVmLoeA$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://americandialect.org/research-incubator-adsri1/__;!!Mak6IKo!J8FCeL2b_Te3NtwfKmQggrE-papjYK6D00O-dfGpDeWhPSWCLqKkpW1lo8CwpCPEkJ8vodZWgs35FjM699xgVmLoeA$" data-outlook-id="9d329ff5-a8ea-43e7-94c2-c79e1b4e1eb4" style="color: purple; margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b><u>American
Dialect Society Research Incubator</u></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b> (ADSRI1)! </b></span></p>
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<span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Online September 18–19, 2026, a half-day on Friday, Sept. 18, and most of Saturday, Sept. 19.
</b></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(2, 57, 176);"><a href="https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw" title="https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw" data-outlook-id="53606477-7704-4e37-82fc-c099ae0f528d" style="color: rgb(2, 57, 176); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b><u>Registration
is free and open to all.</u></b></a></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b> </b></span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We are excited to announce our first American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1), an
online opportunity to present work in progress for discussion. Our aim is ultimately to encourage and provide feedback on work that can later be presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">While the Research Incubator is designed for early-career researchers, especially students, all
are welcome to submit. The forum is designed to be collaborative and provide rich feedback at every stage, from initial abstract submission through the 20-minute presentation. Each accepted presenter will have the opportunity to work with an ADS mentor or
a colleague to brainstorm and converse with them to develop the presentation. At the incubator, sets of three presentations will be followed by an hour-long discussion period where the audience will actively help presenters sharpen their work and explore future
directions. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">We invite presentations on any aspect of any language variety used or found in North
America, associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic, and in the Caribbean Basin. We also invite work on the language varieties that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We encourage
topics related to lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language and society, and public language-awareness programs. </span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">The deadline for abstracts is Friday, August 21, 11:59 pm Central Time. Presenters
must be ADS </span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(2, 57, 176);"><a href="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society__;!!Mak6IKo!J8FCeL2b_Te3NtwfKmQggrE-papjYK6D00O-dfGpDeWhPSWCLqKkpW1lo8CwpCPEkJ8vodZWgs35FjM699zGSiKXCQ$" title="https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society__;!!Mak6IKo!J8FCeL2b_Te3NtwfKmQggrE-papjYK6D00O-dfGpDeWhPSWCLqKkpW1lo8CwpCPEkJ8vodZWgs35FjM699zGSiKXCQ$" data-outlook-id="f6240fbd-f319-4b4c-841b-43a6926cbe37" style="color: rgb(2, 57, 176); margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><u>members</u></a><u> </u></span><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);">by the
time of the Incubator (ADS memberships are only $25 for students). Anybody can attend.</span></p>
<p style="text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none;"><span style="font-family: Aptos, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(33, 33, 33);"><b>Bonus:
</b>The editors of<i> American Speech </i>will join us to talk about the publication process, getting from the incubator into their pages. </span></p>
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<b>Kendra Calhoun, Ph.D. (she/her)</b></div>
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