<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">*** Apologies for multiple postings ***</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">3 TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS AVAILABLE THIS YEAR - PLEASE SEE BELOW</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div>CALL FOR PAPERS<br class="">21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2018)<br class="">Santa Barbara, CA<br class="">April 20th-21st, 2018<br class=""><br class="">Meeting Description<br class="">The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara<br class="">announces its 21st Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL),<br class="">which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and<br class="">practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.<br class=""><br class="">Keynote Speaker<br class="">Anthony K. Webster (University of Texas at Austin)<br class="">Anthony K. Webster is a linguistic anthropologist and author of the books<br class="">Explorations in Navajo Poetry and Poetics (UNM, 2009) and Intimate<br class="">Grammars: An Ethnography of Navajo Poetry (Arizona, 2015). His research<br class="">focuses on the interplay between language, culture, the individual and the<br class="">imagination. He has published articles on Navajo ethnopoetics and Navajo<br class="">language and culture in, among others, the Journal of Linguistic<br class="">Anthropology; International Journal of American Linguistics;<br class="">Anthropological Linguistics; Journal de la Soci?t? des Am?ricanistes;<br class="">Anthropology and Humanism; the Journal of Anthropological Research; and the<br class="">Journal of American Folklore. His third book, The Sounds of Navajo Poetry:<br class="">A Humanities of Speaking, is due out in 2018.<br class=""><br class="">Call for Papers<br class="">Anonymous abstracts are invited for talks on any topic relevant to the<br class="">study of indigenous languages of the Americas. Talks will be 20 minutes,<br class="">followed by 10 minutes for discussion. Abstracts should be 500 words or<br class="">less (excluding examples and/or references).<br class=""><br class="">Individuals may submit abstracts for one single-authored and one<br class="">co-authored paper. Please indicate your source(s) and type(s) of data in<br class="">the abstract (e.g. recordings, texts, conversational, elicited, narrative,<br class="">etc.). For co-authored papers, please indicate who plans to present the<br class="">paper as well as who will be in attendance.<br class=""><br class="">Abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format through the EasyAbs system at<br class=""><a href="http://www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL21" class="">www.linguistlist.org/easyabs/WAIL21</a><br class=""><br class="">Hard copy submissions will be accepted from those who do not have Internet<br class="">access. Please send four copies of your abstract, along with a 3x5 card<br class="">with the following information: (1) your name; (2) affiliation; (3) mailing<br class="">address; (4) phone number; (5) email address; and (6) title of your paper.<br class=""><br class="">Send hard copy submissions to:<br class="">Workshop on American Indigenous Languages<br class="">Attn: Adrienne Tsikewa or Jesús Olguín Martínez<br class="">Department of Linguistics University of California, Santa Barbara<br class="">Santa Barbara, CA 93106<br class=""><br class=""><font color="#9a244f" class="">Deadline for receipt of abstracts: February 23, 2018<br class=""></font><br class="">Notification of acceptance will arrive by email no later than March 9,<br class="">2018.<br class=""><br class=""><font color="#561029" class="">Travel Scholarships<br class="">WAIL 21 is pleased to offer three (3) travel scholarships this year. The<br class="">total amount of each award is $300. To be eligible, applicants must submit<br class="">an abstract via EasyAbs and complete a brief application:<br class=""><a href="https://tinyurl.com/WAIL21TravelScholarship" class="">https://tinyurl.com/WAIL21TravelScholarship</a><br class=""><br class="">Applicants will need to provide a statement that addresses the following:<br class="">1) why you wish to present at WAIL 21 and how it will benefit your studies<br class="">and/or program milestones, 2) your financial situation, needs, and if you<br class="">are receiving any other funding to attend this conference. Successful<br class="">applicants will be determined based on the quality of the submitted<br class="">abstract and statement/need.</font><br class=""><br class="">General Information<br class="">Santa Barbara is situated on the Pacific Ocean near the Santa Y?ez<br class="">Mountains. The UCSB campus is located near the Santa Barbara airport.<br class="">Participants may also fly into LAX airport in Los Angeles, which is<br class="">approximately 90 miles southeast of the campus. Shuttle buses run between<br class="">LAX and Santa Barbara. For further information, please contact the<br class="">conference coordinators, Adrienne Tsikewa or Jesus Olguin Martinez, at<br class=""><a href="mailto:wail.ucsb@gmail.com" class="">wail.ucsb@gmail.com</a> or check out our website, <a href="http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/" class="">http://osl.sa.ucsb.edu/org/</a><br class="">nail/WAIL.<br class=""></body></html>