<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hello,</div><div>We're pleased to share that we have extended the deadline for submissions to our SALSA Conference in Austin, Texas to October 16th, 2026. Submission details are below and in the attached pdf.</div><div>Thanks,</div><div>Maximilian X. Conrad (SALSA 2027 Chair)</div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA):</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">January 15-16, 2027</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">The University of Texas at Austin</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Keynote Speaker:</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Dr. Kristina Wirtz (Western Michigan University)</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The Symposium About Language and Society, Austin (SALSA) is an annual conference that</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">brings together scholars from around the world who study the social life of language. We are</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">now accepting submissions for <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">SALSA XXXI</span>, which will take place <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">January 15-16, 2027</span>.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The deadline for submissions is <span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">October 16, 2026</span>.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The theme for SALSA XXXI is “Rites and Ritual”: How can language forge identities and shape</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">the way we encounter the social in ritualized life, both religious and secular? One panel will be</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">thematically focused on the conference theme. For the other panels, we welcome papers on</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">any topic concerning the use of language in social life. <span style="color:rgb(33,37,41)">Potential topics include, but are not</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">limited to:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language and social interaction</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Gesture and embodiment</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language ideologies</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Semiotics</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● New media, LLMs, and AI</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language policy and planning</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language education</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Speech play and verbal art</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Language documentation and</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">revitalization</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)"><span style="font-size:19px">● </span>Raciolinguistics</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Multilingualism and language contact</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Political communication</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(33,37,41)">● Language and posthumanism</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">If you would like to submit your paper for consideration on the thematic panel, please indicate so</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">on your proposal. If your proposal is not accepted to the thematic panel, you will still be</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">considered for the conference as a whole.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Submission Guidelines</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">The deadline for abstract submission is October 16, 2026.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Please send abstracts of no more than 300 words, Times New Roman, size 12; 1.5 inter-line</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">spacing as an attachment to</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Subject: SALSA XXXI AbstractPlease include the following in your email message but NOT in the abstract (with the exception</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">of title, which should appear in both):</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Paper Title:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Author's name (if more than one author, list primary author first followed by</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">subsequent authors):</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-size:9.5px">● </span>Consideration for thematic panel?: Yes</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">No</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">___</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">___</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● Author(s) affiliation:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">● E-mail address at which author prefers to be contacted:</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">For more information about the conference, see</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="https://sites.utexas.edu/salsa/" target="_blank">https://sites.utexas.edu/salsa/</a> <span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Questions can be sent to</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><br></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">Conference Organizers</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">The conference is presented by the SALSA Graduate Student Organization at UT-Austin,</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:19px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-size:18px">Maximilian Conrad (chair)</span>, Feiyao Liao, and Sara Gace.</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none"><span style="font-family:Arial-BoldMT;font-weight:bold">SALSA</span></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">University of Texas at Austin</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">Department of Anthropology</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none">William C. Powers (WCP) 4.114</p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(51,63,72)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Phone: (</span><a href="tel:(512)%20471-4206" value="+15124714206" target="_blank">512) 471-4206</a></p><p style="margin:0px;font-size:18px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial;font-size-adjust:none;color:rgb(17,85,204)"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Email: </span><a href="mailto:salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com" target="_blank">salsa.austin.tx@gmail.com</a></p></div></div><font color="#888888"></font><div><font color="#888888"><br></font><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><b>Maximilian X. Conrad, M.A.</b><div><b>PhD Student | Dept. of Anthropology|<font color="#ff9900"> </font><span style="color:rgb(191,87,0)">The University of Texas at Austin</span></b></div></div></div></div>