35.650, Confs: The 1st ROLE Collective Symposium

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Subject: 35.650, Confs: The 1st ROLE Collective Symposium

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Date: 24-Feb-2024
From: Ethan  Kutlu [ethan-kutlu at uiowa.edu]
Subject: The 1st ROLE Collective Symposium


The 1st ROLE Collective Symposium
Short Title: ROLE

Date: 12-Apr-2024 - 19-Apr-2024
Location: Online, USA
Contact: Ethan Kutlu
Contact Email: ethan-kutlu at uiowa.edu
Meeting URL: https://rolecollective.github.io/ROLESymposium/

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics

Meeting Description:

We are excited to share a new initiative we have started in late 2022.
The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective was co-founded
by Dr. Savithry Namboodiripad and Dr. Ethan Kutlu. Currently, the
collective has over 50 scholars. Our collective represents scholars
from various career stages and various backgrounds. If you would like
to read more about our collective, please visit our website:
rolecollective.github.io.

We are excited to launch this collective with a symposium funded by
the National Science Foundation. The 1st ROLE Collective Symposium
will take place this year online on April 12th (keynotes and short
talks) and April 19th (workshop). The theme of this symposium is
“Rejecting Harmful Native Speaker/Signer Ideologies.”

Structure of the Symposium

The one-week difference between Day 1 and Day 2 is to ensure that any
attendees who may not have been able to attend some or all of the
talks on Day 1 will have enough time to watch the videos and be
prepared for the second day. In addition, though all of the short
talks will be uploaded online only, and not broadcast synchronously on
Day 1, there will be a synchronous discussion of these talks on Day 2.

Day 2 will begin with a structured discussion of the short talks.
Then, participants will split up into at least 5 themed breakout rooms
to work together to discuss how to address harmful notions of language
in various contexts. These contexts include research practices (e.g.,
how to ethically and accurately capture differences in language
experience, how to implement conceptual changes via novel statistical
methods, how to recruit participants without relying on the native
speaker/signer construct), clinical assessments (e.g., creating
resources about how language ideologies can lead to misdiagnoses of
individuals whose language practices are marginalized, and advocating
for the further development of assessment materials which are
inclusive of a broader range of language/varieties), admissions
processes (e.g., creating white papers for graduate and undergraduate
programs to eschew native speaker/signer ideologies in assessments of
the language of incoming students), evaluation of academic language
(e.g., creating guidelines for editors and reviewers to assess the
language of submitted manuscript/grant application without relying on
the native speaker construct), communicating with the public (e.g.,
creating public-facing information for the affirmation of all kinds of
language experience), and whatever other priorities are identified by
participants – participants’ priorities will be identified via a
survey distributed after the first symposium day and before the
workshop day.

You can learn more about the invited speakers and the symposium here:
https://rolecollective.github.io/ROLESymposium/

In order to register for this event, please use this link: https://uio
wa.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkdO6orTouHNUhOKAhD6MCXGLFIC9s9kDW#/regi
stration


If you are interested in submitting your work as a short talk, please
use this link to submit your abstract (Deadline: March 15th):
https://uiowa.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_8ABXmEpwD3IDmS2


Please share this information with your networks.

Ethan and Savi




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