[Linganth] 2015 AAA Meetings in Denver, or Yes, it is that time again!

[Judy Pine]

Hello SLA members!

As our President, Paul Kroskrity, has reminded us, the deadlines for submission to AAA 2015 are rapidly approaching.  The theme for the upcoming meeting is "Familiar/Strange", and sections are invited to submit panels for consideration for Executive Session status, essentially invited status at the level of AAA, rather than SLA.  Executive Session proposals ought to connect to the meeting theme, and must be submitted by the February 17 deadline.   An SLA session earned Executive Session status for the 2014 AAA meetings and I am confident that we have potential panels which could earn this status again this year.

If you are thinking of organizing an Executive Session, be sure to carefully read the theme description at http://www.aaanet.org/meetings/.  Submissions for Executive status will be evaluated by the Executive Program Committee according to their resonance with this theme, as developed in the description.

The online submission system is now open for panels seeking possible Executive Session status.

The online system will open for all other submissions on February 18th.  I STRONGLY encourage those organizing panels to begin that work now, and have a fully developed panel ready for submission once the system opens.  Panels need not orient on the overall meeting theme.  The SLA Program Committee seeks to include panels which reflect the breadth and diversity of current work being done by linguistic anthropologists.

All panels submitted by the April 15 deadline will be considered for potential Invited status.  If your panel has a logical connection to some other section, be sure to indicate that in the appropriate box on the submission form.  The Program Committee will identify the strongest panels for Invited status, and I will work to find possible co-sponsorships based on your input.

Again, the deadline for proposals for all sessions, individual papers, and poster presentations is April 15.

Speaking from experience, I can say that organizing a panel is one of the most rewarding of conference activities.  Many successful panels have been organized by folks who put out an invitation on this list with a detailed description of the panel they have in mind.  I know that it can be very challenging, especially when you are starting out and don't have a network of colleagues with whom to work, to find a home in a panel.  It is useful to remember that individual papers must be organized into panels by my Program Committee, and an individual paper for which we cannot find a panel home cannot be accepted on its own merit.

The poster option is an important one for those submitting as individuals.  The technological options readily available to anyone with a laptop or tablet and a good set of headphones mean that you can include in your poster presentation large chunks of audio or audio/visual data that cannot be easily included in the confines of a paper presentation.  Feedback for a poster presentation can also be more extensive and one-on-one than is the norm for a paper presentation.

Denver in November, folks!  I think it is going to be an excellent meeting, and I look forward to seeing you there!

Judith M.S. Pine
Assoc. Professor
Dept of Anthropology
Western Washington University

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