Call for papers: American Dialect Society Annual Meeting 2010, Baltimore

[Grant Barrett]

 From Thursday, January 7, 2010, through Saturday, January 9, the  
American Dialect Society will hold its next annual meeting, hosted as  
usual by the Linguistic Society of America, at the new Hilton  
Baltimore, 401 West Pratt Street in Baltimore, Maryland.

http://www.americandialect.org/baltimore2010/

Monday, August 10 is the deadline for proposals for 20-minute  
presentations. All you need is a title and an abstract of 150 to 300  
words. Send it via e-mail to Executive Secretary Allan Metcalf atamericandialect at mac.edu 
.

Presenters must be current members of the American Dialect Society.

Audio-visual equipment: Two items of equipment will be available for  
all presentations: an LCD projector, and, new this year, a direct  
audio connection to the speaker system so that sound files on  
computers may be played. If you will need other equipment such as an  
overhead projector, please say so when you send your proposal.

Scheduling: If you have a preference for day or time of your  
presentation, please indicate that too. We cannot guarantee the time  
you prefer, but the program committee will try to accommodate you. The  
meeting will follow our customary schedule:

Thursday, January 7: Executive Council and annual business meeting in  
the afternoon. Program session in late afternoon, followed by Words of  
the Year nominations.

Friday, January 8: Programs sessions in morning and afternoon. Words  
of the Year vote and Bring-Your-Own-Book reception in the early evening.

Saturday, January 9: Program sessions in morning and afternoon; Annual  
Luncheon in between.

Proposals will be judged anonymously by a committee chaired by Luanne  
von Schneidemesser, ADS president-elect. If your proposal is accepted,  
you’ll be asked for an abstract of no more than 200 words for the LSA  
program.

Session chairs: If you’re interested in chairing a session, let the  
Executive Secretary know at americandialect at mac.edu. Tell him any  
preference you have for time or topic.

Special sessions: If you’re interested in proposing an entire session  
rather than an individual paper, don’t wait till August, but send a  
proposal now toamericandialect at mac.edu. You don’t need to wait till  
you have a full formal proposal.

Teaching panel: The ADS Committee on Teaching may sponsor a panel at  
the annual meeting. If you would like to propose a 20-minute talk for  
that panel, send your proposal directly to the chair of the Committee  
on Teaching, Anne Curzan, at acurzan at umich.edu. Her deadline is also  
August 10.

Specially for students: Four travel grants of $500 each will be  
awarded to students whose papers have been chosen for the program.  
Furthermore, all students who are members of ADS, whether or not they  
are presenting papers, are invited to attend the Annual Luncheon for  
free.

Hotel and registration: ADS members will be eligible to reserve rooms  
and register for the meeting at LSA member rates. For details see the  
websitehttp://www.lsadc.org.

Future LSA-ADS meetings: 2011 Pittsburgh, Jan. 6–9; 2012 Portland,  
Jan. 5–8; 2013 place to be determined, Jan. 3–6; 2014 Minneapolis,  
Jan. 2–5. All meetings will be at Hiltons.

Word of the Year: At this meeting, in addition to choosing Words of  
the Year just past, that is, words of 2009, we will also have the  
solemn responsibility of choosing a Word of the Decade 2000–2009. See  
the ADS website for details: http://www.americandialect.org.

Grant Barrett
Vice President of Communications and Technology
American Dialect Society
http://www.americandialect.org
gbarrett at worldnewyork.org

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