[Ads-l] Announcing the first American Dialect Society Research Incubator!

[Grant Barrett]

*Announcing the first American Dialect Society Research Incubator!
<https://americandialect.org/research-incubator-adsri1/>*


   - Working on a research project that would benefit from feedback before
   you present it at a conference?
   - Looking for a collaborative, low-stakes venue to talk about your and
   others’ research?


*Check out the new American Dialect Society Research Incubator (ADSRI1)!
Online September 18–19, 2026, a half-day on Friday, Sept. 18, and most of
Saturday, Sept. 19. Registration is free and open to all.
<https://uwmadison.zoom.us/meeting/register/pMrcMEtwTTSOemm5RAFlrw> *

We are excited to announce our first American Dialect Society Research
Incubator (ADSRI1), an online opportunity to present work in progress for
discussion. Our aim is ultimately to encourage and provide feedback on work
that can later be presented at the American Dialect Society Annual Meeting.

While the Research Incubator is designed for early-career researchers,
especially students, all are welcome to submit. The forum is designed to be
collaborative and provide rich feedback at every stage, from initial
abstract submission through the 20-minute presentation. Each accepted
presenter will have the opportunity to work with an ADS mentor or a
colleague to brainstorm and converse with them to develop the presentation.
At the incubator, sets of three presentations will be followed by an
hour-long discussion period where the audience will actively help
presenters sharpen their work and explore future directions.

We invite presentations on any aspect of any language variety used or found
in North America,  associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic, and
in the Caribbean Basin. We also invite work on the language varieties that
influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical,
Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. We encourage topics related to
lexicography, linguistic atlas projects, linguistic landscapes, language
and society, and public language-awareness programs.

The deadline for abstracts is Friday, August 21, 11:59 pm Central Time.
Presenters must be ADS members
<https://www.dukeupress.edu/american-dialect-society> by the time of the
Incubator (ADS memberships are only $25 for students). Anybody can attend.

*Abstracts *of no more than 500 words as a PDF (with a second page for data
and references) will be submitted, reviewed, and processed for the
Incubator via the EasyChair system using this website
<https://easychair.org/cfp/content.cgi?a=36576900>.

Only include the title of the study at the top of the abstract. Do not
include your name or other identifying information on the abstract.
Abstracts that include the author’s names will not be considered. See here
for the Linguistic Society of America’s advice on abstract preparation
<https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=346>and model abstracts
<https://www.lsadc.org/content.asp?contentid=345>.

Contact Joe Salmons, jsalmons at wisc.edu, with questions.

We happily acknowledge that we owe this idea to the North American Research
Network in Historical Sociolinguistics <https://narnihs.org/>, which
created the first Research Incubator.

…….


Grant Barrett

American Dialect Society

Vice President of Communications and Technology

https://americandialect.org

grant at grantbarrett.com

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