31.2338, Calls: Gen Ling/Online
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Subject: 31.2338, Calls: Gen Ling/Online
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Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2020 11:39:30
From: Robert Mailhammer [R.Mailhammer at westernsydney.edu.au]
Subject: Australian Linguistic Meeting Annual Conference
Full Title: Australian Linguistic Meeting Annual Conference
Short Title: ALS 2020
Date: 14-Dec-2020 - 15-Dec-2020
Location: Online, Australia
Contact Person: Robert Mailhammer
Meeting Email: conf at als.asn.au
Web Site: https://als.asn.au/Conference/Conference2020
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 30-Sep-2020
Meeting Description:
The 53rd annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will run in an
exciting online format on Monday and Tuesday 14-15 December 2020.
The theme this year is Building Bridges, in acknowledgement of the role that
this Conference will play in connecting together a community of Linguistics
researchers who have been living through many months of perturbation,
fragmentation, and (in some cases) isolation as a result of Covid-19. We will
therefore celebrate the resilience of our community through these challenging
times, and create a forum for providing mutual support and solidarity as we
hear about the research that our community has been progressing in spite of
everything.
The conference will run as an online event, including two keynote
presentations, pre-recorded video papers, live panel discussions, a public
event as well as live social events and a series of NEXT GEN sessions for HDR
and ECR members.
Keynote speakers:
Two keynote presentations will be delivered as part of the conference program.
These will focus on how the field of linguistics can build new ways of
engaging with society and its needs, including what we can do to address
pressing issues of linguistic discrimination, racism and exclusion, as well as
to foster an atmosphere of sustainable and supportive practice at all levels.
These will be live-streamed and followed by a Q&A.
Confirmed keynote speakers:
Anne Charity-Hudley, University of California, Santa Barbara
Umberto Ansaldo, University of Sydney/Curtin University
Conference structure and scope:
Presenters will be invited to submit videos of their talk or their poster in
advance of the conference to enable them to be viewed online with the
opportunity to comment and ask questions. This will precede a
concurrently-programmed series of live-streamed sessions on 14th-15th December
during which the session chairs will curate a Q&A and discussion around the
papers within each session. Materials will be password-protected and will only
be available to those who register for the conference. All materials will be
removed from the conference website on 31st December 2020. The conference
registration fee will be held at a low level to encourage wide participation
from the ALS membership and beyond.
The program will be structured around general sessions of oral presentations
and posters and themed panels centred around a set of linked oral
presentations. We welcome a wide range of submissions across the languages of
the world, including Indigenous languages (from Australia and elsewhere),
non-Indigenous global languages, migrant languages, sign languages, pidgins,
creoles and mixed languages.
Call for Papers:
We invite submissions from all linguistic subfields, for 15-minute
presentations in the general sessions, for posters, and for presentations
within a themed panel. Abstracts that are deemed to be outside the scope of
the relevant panel or workshop will be considered for inclusion in the general
sessions or poster sessions.
Main conference themed panels:
Proposals are invited for themed panel sessions to be included within the
conference program. Panels should consist of a maximum of six 15-minute papers
and will be allocated a slot within the program alongside the general
sessions.
Proposals should be submitted via email to conf at als.asn.au and should consist
of a title for the panel, the names affiliations of the panel Chairs, a
statement (300 words max) of the significance and timeliness of the proposed
panel, and an outline of the prospective contributions, including titles and
100-word summaries.
The deadline for submitting panel proposals is 31 August 2020. These will be
reviewed by the ALS Program Committee with outcomes notified to proposers by 7
September.
Abstract Submissions:
All abstract submissions are due by 30 September 2020.
All abstracts will be anonymously reviewed by the ALS Program Committee.
Notifications of acceptance will be issued by 20th October.
Abstracts must be a maximum of 1 A4 page of text including title. The abstract
may also include 1 additional A4 page of examples, figures, references and
other relevant content. Please prepare your abstract in Times New Roman 12
point font, with 2cm on all margins. On the additional page, references only
may appear in 10 point font. Examples, figures, tables must appear in 12 point
font. All abstracts should be submitted in .pdf format to facilitate the
review process.
The abstract must be anonymous. It should not include any author names or
affiliations. Please ensure you remove all identifying information from the
document properties.
Each abstract should be submitted online via the ALS EasyChair website:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=als2020
If you do not have an EasyChair account yet, you will have to create one for
the purpose of this conference. To submit an abstract, you will need to both:
1. upload your abstract as one anonymous .pdf document and
2. paste the title and main text of your abstract into a text box within
EasyChair.
As part of the EasyChair online submission form, you will also be asked for
author & affiliation information, title, abstract, keywords and topics, your
preferred presentation type (oral or poster presentation) and which themed
panel, if any, you would like to present within. We strongly encourage a
poster submission if your dataset lends itself well to graphical presentation.
If you are submitting to a panel or workshops, please indicate if you would
like the abstract to be also considered for the general sessions, in the event
that it is not accepted by panel organisers.
Abstract review criteria:
Each abstract will receive a general overall evaluation. The program committee
will also consider the degree to which each abstract:
• situates the study within its research context and demonstrates a clear
theoretical, methodological and/or practical contribution to the field,
• coherently articulates its topic and objectives,
• outlines the data being analysed and how it will be analysed,
• is of potential interest to an ALS audience.
For further information and updates please see the ALS website or send an
email to the 2020 ALS Conference organising committee: conf at als.asn.au.
The ALS 2020 organising committee:
Gerry Docherty, Griffith University, Brisbane
Robert Mailhammer, Western Sydney University, Sydney
Celeste Rodriguez Louro, The University of Western Australia, Perth
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