<div dir="ltr"><div>Hi all,</div><div><br></div><div>Hope you are doing well. After a hiatus in 2020 due to COVID, and in 2021 due to a lack of participants, I'm hoping to bring the Linguistic Geography session back to the American Association of Geographers' Annual Meeting in 2022. Please see below for details, but feel free to reach out to me directly if you have any questions.</div><div><br></div><div>~ Greg</div><div><br></div><div>...<br></div><div><br></div><div><b>Call for Papers:</b> Linguistic Geography</div><div>AAG Annual Meeting in New York City/virtual, February 25–March 1, 2022</div><div><br></div><div>Organizer: Greg Niedt</div><div><b>Deadline for abstracts:</b> Friday, October 15, 2021<br></div><div><div class="gmail-gallery_details"><div class="gmail-propinfo_outer"><div class="gmail-otherInfo gmail-wbox"><div class="gmail-show-if-inner"><p>The intersection of language, discourse, and space has become a
growing subject of attention in recent years, across a range of
disciplines including cultural geography, linguistic anthropology,
sociology, and political science. This session explores the ways that
language, broadly understood, can encode diversity into our surroundings
and impact our interpretations of the world. What things do we say about places that shape our attitudes towards them? How do the communities
that inhabit them use language, from signage to graffiti, in official
policy and everyday conversation, to express themselves or make claims
to a space? We will focus on why attending to this piece of the puzzle
can be a helpful perspective for geographers, and how these ideas, when applied, can help groups amplify and maintain their voices.</p></div>
<div class="gmail-show-if-inner"><p><strong>Call for participation:</strong></p>
<p>The call is open for any researchers investigating topics such as
language and space, linguistic landscapes (language use in public
spaces), language and power, ethnophysiography, toponymy, dialectology,
linguistic cartography, and the representation of places in discourse.
Presenters who engage with the conference themes for this year,
especially "Geographies of Access: Inclusion and Pathways,"
"Ethnonationalism and Exclusion around the World," and "Expanding the
Community of Geography" are encouraged to submit work. <br><br>Please reach out to Greg Niedt at <a href="mailto:gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu">gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu</a> by <b>Friday, 15 October</b> if you would like your
paper to be considered for the panel. While this session is planned to
be in-person, accommodations can be made for virtual participation if
necessary. (Note that participants must also register for the conference and submit their abstract to AAG's session gallery by <b>Tuesday,</b> <b>19 October</b>; see <a href="http://www.aag.org/cs/aag2022nyc">http://www.aag.org/cs/aag2022nyc</a> for more details.) And of course, feel free to send this call to others who might be interested!</p><p>Cheers,<br>Greg Niedt (organizer)<br></p></div></div></div></div></div><div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">=====<br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Dr. Greg Niedt (<i>they/he</i>)</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Department of Liberal Arts</span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif">Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts<br><a href="mailto:gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu" target="_blank">gniedt@pobox.pafa.edu</a><br><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/linguistic-landscapes-beyond-the-language-classroom-9781350125360/" target="_blank">Linguistic Landscapes Beyond the Language Classroom</a><br></span></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(11,83,148)"><span style="font-family:garamond,times new roman,serif"><a href="https://www.routledge.com/Essentials-of-Visual-Interpretation/Reynolds-Niedt/p/book/9780367491284" target="_blank">Essentials of Visual Interpretation</a></span></span><br></div></div></div></div></div>