<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Greetings from Honolulu!<br><br></div>It's the time of year to begin planning the Linguistic Geography sessions for the next American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting. The upcoming conference will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana on April 10-14, 2018. The AAG is a huge, welcoming, interdisciplinary conference with a significant international reputation, and 2018 will mark the third year of dedicated Linguistic Geography sessions.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>I am looking for a co-organizer, 2-4 session chairs, and 10-20 paper presentations. <br></div><div><br></div>Here is the tentative abstract for the sessions:<br><br>Language and <span class="gmail-il">geography</span> interact in many ways, and at many scales. Scholars from fields such as cultural <span class="gmail-il">geography</span>, <span class="gmail-il">linguistic</span>
anthropology, sociology, and political science share in the endeavor to
understand the relationship between language and space. This
interdisciplinary session examines both the role of landscape in
language, and the role of language in landscape. <br><br>
Topics include language and space, <span class="gmail-il">linguistic</span> landscapes (language use in public spaces), language and power, ethnophysiography, toponymy, dialectology, and <span class="gmail-il">linguistic</span> cartography.<div><br></div><div>Please contact me at <a href="mailto:catherine.lee@hawaii.edu">catherine.lee@hawaii.edu</a> if you are interested in co-organizing, chairing, or presenting in the 2018 Linguistic Geography Sessions!<br clear="all"></div><div><div><div><div><br></div><div>Feel free to disseminate this CFP to anyone who might be interested.</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for being part of the linguistic geography community,</div><div><br></div><div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Catherine Lee</div><div><br></div><div><div><a href="mailto:catherine.lee@hawaii.edu">catherine.lee@hawaii.edu</a></div><div><br></div>Department of Linguistics<br>University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa<br>
1890 East-West Road, 569 Moore<br>
Honolulu, HI 96822 USA</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>P.S.: Important Dates for the AAG Annual Meeting<br></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">August 1, 2017</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">Registration and Call for Papers opens</span>
<br></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">October 25, 2017</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">Abstract submission deadline</span>
<strong style="text-align:center"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">November 8, 2017</strong>
S<span style="text-align:center">ession organization deadline</span>
<strong style="text-align:center"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">January 2017</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">Preliminary Program available online</span>
<strong style="text-align:center"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">February 14, 2018</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">Poster abstract submission deadline</span>
<strong style="text-align:center"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">February 23, 2018</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">Abstract and session editing deadline</span>
<strong style="text-align:center"><br></strong></div><div><strong style="text-align:center">April 10 - 14, 2018</strong>
<span style="text-align:center">AAG 2018 New Orleans Annual Meeting</span></div><div><span style="text-align:center"></span><br><span style="text-align:center">(Please see <a href="http://annualmeeting.aag.org/">http://annualmeeting.aag.org/</a> for details about the conference.)</span></div><div><br></div><br></div></div>
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