<sla_discussion> AAA 2008: SLA Call for Papers

Tue Feb 26 20:01:01 UTC 2008

Hey Kira, just FYI, you sent that info to the GALA list somehow...

On Feb 26, 2008, at 1:57 PM, Kira Hall wrote:

>
> (please feel free to forward this email to potentially interested 
> parties; apologies for cross-postings)
>
> Dear Linguistic Anthropologists,
>
> The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) has postponed the 
> deadline for invited sessions from Monday, March 3, to Friday, March 
> 7th.  We hope that this will enable more of you to get sessions 
> together for submission.  The earlier email I sent out regarding the 
> submission process is attached below, in case you missed it.  Please 
> feel free to contact me if you have any questions about either invited 
> or volunteered session submission. The general AAA deadline for 
> volunteered sessions, papers, and posters remains April 1st.
>
> See you in San Francisco,
>
> Kira Hall
>
>
>
> Original message below:
> ***************************
>
> The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions 
> for the American Anthropological Association's (AAA) 107th Annual 
> Meeting, to be held in San Francisco, CA, on November 19-23, 2008.  As 
> this year's SLA Section Program Editor, I am writing to encourage you 
> to submit invited sessions, volunteered sessions, and volunteered 
> papers and posters so that we can have an exciting meeting in San 
> Francisco this November.  The theme of the 2008 Meeting is "Inclusion, 
> Collaboration, and Engagement."  I also hope that you will consider 
> orienting your panels to the conference theme, although you do not 
> have to do so.  
>
> There are two deadlines for submission:  (1) an internal SLA deadline 
> for invited sessions (Monday, March 3), and (2) the AAA deadline for 
> volunteered sessions and volunteered papers/posters (5pm, Eastern 
> Time, April 1, 2008).  While you must submit your materials to the AAA 
> website for both of these submission processes before the stated 
> deadlines, invited session submissions must also be sent by the March 
> 3rd deadline directly to the SLA Program Section Editor 
> (kira.hall at colorado.edu).  Your email to me should include a copy of 
> your session abstract as well as individual paper abstracts from each 
> of your proposed participants.  I will then send these out to the 
> 6-member SLA Program Committee for review.  (Note: Invited session 
> submissions to the AAA website by March 3 can still be somewhat 
> preliminary;  you can make changes on your submission up until the 
> general deadline on April 1.)  
>
> The word limit for a session abstract is 500 words and for a paper 
> abstract 250 words.  This information is posted on the AAA meetings 
> website (http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/) under "Call for Papers and 
> Participation Rules."  Before submitting, we encourage you to read 
> through "Submission Guidelines and Requirements" at 
> http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/cfp_subguide.cfm.  You must 
> be a member of the AAA in order to submit a paper.  If you are not 
> currently a member, please visit http://www.aaanet.org/membership/.
>
> Invited Sessions:
>
> For those of you unfamiliar with the conference structure, invited 
> sessions are, in the words of the AAA, "innovative, synthesizing 
> sessions intended to reflect the state-of-the-art in the major 
> subfields and the thematic concerns of those fields."  The SLA Program 
> Committee is responsible for selecting sessions for invited status; we 
> are especially interested in panels that feature cutting edge research 
> and theory, topics that cross subdisciplines, and/or topics related to 
> this year's meeting theme.  If you are organizing a panel and would 
> like it to be considered for invited status, please notify me of your 
> interest via email (kira.hall at colorado.edu) as soon as possible, but 
> by March 3rd at the very latest.  Again, you must submit your 
> materials both to the AAA website and to me by the March 3rd deadline. 
>  (When you submit your panel to the website, you will not yet know 
> whether or not it has been chosen for invited status, so simply submit 
> it as a volunteered session.  We can always change the session status 
> later, should your panel be selected as invited.)
>
> Important note:  The SLA unfortunately has very few allotted spaces 
> for invited sessions:  we can choose either 3 single panels, or 1 
> double panel plus 1 single panel.  We therefore encourage you to 
> consider the possibility of having another AAA section co-sponsor your 
> session together with the SLA, so that we can put more invited 
> sessions onto the conference program.  If there are other AAA sections 
> that you feel your panel might interest, please specify this on your 
> application to me and I will consult with the Program Section Editor 
> in those sections to see if there is a possibility for collaboration. 
>  You can also contact other Section Program Editors directly on your 
> own, to see if co-sponsorship might be a possibility.  For a list of 
> other AAA sections, consult http://www.aaanet.org/sections/. 
>
> If your panel is selected for invited status, I will send you an email 
> to this effect before April 1, with a password to use on-line.  You 
> will need this password for the proposal form so as to complete your 
> on-line submission by the general deadline.  
>
> Conference Theme:
>
> Please refer to the AAA website for more details on the theme, at 
> http://dev.aaanet.org/meetings/presenters/theme_chrisman.cfm.  The AAA 
> elaborates on the theme as follows:  
>
> “This theme provides us the opportunity to critically examine 
> anthropology's relationships: across subfields, with other 
> disciplines, with our many publics, and with contemporary social 
> problems. The Executive Program Committee envisions healthy debate as 
> we confront methodological, ethical, and epistemological concerns that 
> unite and divide us; as well as discuss the challenges, risks, and 
> opportunities for growth enabled by this dialog.
>
> Inclusion, Collaboration, and Engagement are ideas that have been 
> central to anthropology throughout the discipline’s history and they 
> are particularly important today. Anthropologists, scholars in other 
> disciplines, and the general public have begun to recognize that 
> anthropology has a great deal to contribute in this era of 
> globalization. Still, our discipline remains a mystery to many and we 
> are often not approached when social science information is needed. 
> Moreover, anthropologists are conflicted about whether and how to 
> participate in important public debates. Although there are the myriad 
> attempts to develop a public interest anthropology, we are also wary 
> of activism and public engagement, particularly as we recall 
> government influence on anthropology during times of war.
>
> This theme deserves our scholarly exploration. Analysis of the 
> processes that promote inclusion, collaboration and engagement for 
> positive human outcomes is a common area of interest for both academic 
> and applied/practicing anthropologists, as is clear communication of 
> anthropological perspectives to the wider public.”
>
> Additional details:
>
> Finally, the AAA has again asked Program Section Editors to encourage 
> their memberships to consider allotting more time for discussion and 
> experimenting with non-traditional formats.  You can certainly fall 
> back on the tried-and-true standard sorts of formats if you wish, but 
> the SLA Program Committee is eager to consider variation
>
> Please contact me if you have any questions.  I'm looking forward to 
> another exciting AAA Annual Meeting with strong SLA participation!
>
> Kira Hall
>
>
>
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> Kira Hall, Associate Professor
> Director, Program in Culture, Language, and Social Practice (CLASP)
> Departments of Linguistics and Anthropology
> Campus Box 295
> University of Colorado
> Boulder, Colorado  80309-0295
> Phone: (303)492-2912
> Fax: (303)492-4416
> Web: www.colorado.edu/linguistics/faculty/kira_hall/
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University of Arizona
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