[Linganth] Call for Papers: SLA 2020 Spring Conference

Sat Oct 5 12:00:00 UTC 2019

*Announcing the 2020 Spring Conference of the Society for Linguistic
Anthropology*
*“Future Imperfect: Language in Times of Crisis and Hope”*
*April 2-5, 2020, Boulder, Colorado*
*Submission Deadline: December 1, 2019*
Contact email: slaboulder at gmail.com

The Society for Linguistic Anthropology
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in partnership with graduate students in the Program in Culture, Language,
and Social Practice (CLASP <https://www.colorado.edu/program/clasp/>) at
the University of Colorado Boulder, is pleased to announce the SLA 2020
Spring Conference
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to
take place at the Hiltons on Canyon in Boulder, Colorado, on *April 2-5,
2020*. The SLA Conference Steering Committee welcomes all submissions
advancing the study of language and society, but we are especially
interested in work that engages the 2020 conference theme: *Future
Imperfect: Language in Times of Crisis and Hope*.

*The Conference Theme*
As human societies face the tragedies of climate, war, racism, corruption,
and displacement that are projected to define the 21st century, the SLA
2020 Spring Conference calls upon scholars to question the way forward in
an imperfect future world. The future inhabits our uncertain present,
generating complex intersections of crisis and hope. The imperfect, as a
verb construction, describes an ongoing, incomplete action. With this
conference theme, we wish to highlight the ever-unfinished and evolving
condition of academic research and its contribution to pressing
sociopolitical issues. How do we, in our role as researchers, reconcile
time-honored methodologies with the novel challenges that have arisen in
contemporary social life? How can our academic labor more effectively
address the concerns of the future? We welcome submissions that make use of
diverse methods, both micro and macro, to explore the precarity and forms
of resistance that characterize our contemporary moment. We are especially
interested in submissions that address the ways that language use may both
enable and contest the sociopolitical shifts that continue to destabilize
human equality (and indeed the future of humanity itself), whether at
local, national, regional, or global scales.

In its focus on imperfect futures, the conference theme additionally
proposes *disruption* and *transformation* as necessary concepts for
critical language study. In social analytic research, these concepts each
invoke traditional paradigms as they move toward more innovative ways of
thinking and doing. We highlight disruption as a rethinking of
relationships between researchers, participants, audiences, and
methodologies. What counts as knowledge production in linguistic
anthropology and related fields? Who gets to produce and circulate
knowledge, and in what fora? How can we productively disrupt our reliance
on knowledge systems that may be more suited to past instead of future
concerns? Likewise, we highlight transformation as encompassing the many
ways in which laypersons as well as researchers may change and advance the
contours of language study to confront an increasingly anxious world.
Through the reflexive interrogation of positionality and subjectivity, we
search for emergent paths to take within—and beyond—the comfort zones in
our research fields. Disruption and transformation, as mutually
reinforcing, co-constitutive phenomena, create the opportunity for more
critical and participatory directions in language study. This conference
theme invites linguistic anthropologists and related researchers to reflect
on ways to realize goals of racial, ethnic, socioeconomic, gendered, and
other forms of social justice in times of crisis and hope.

*Submission information*
The SLA will prioritize submissions for organized panels, individual
presentations, roundtables, posters, and installations that engage
productively with our conference theme and involve creative and diverse
participation across methods, disciplines, institutions, and professional
levels. We especially welcome panels that involve graduate students,
activists, and/or public figures in addition to faculty. We also encourage
conference participants to consider presenting new or in-progress research
in order to take full advantage of SLA’s interdisciplinary community of
scholars. To that end, we encourage participants who have an innovative
proposal that does not readily fit into the conference format to contact
the conference organizers at slaboulder at gmail.com for independent
consideration.

The submission portal will open on Tuesday, October 8. Registration with
the American Anthropological Association is a required first step before
submitting an abstract. To register, please log into the AAA Anthro Gateway
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check if you have an existing AAA user account; if not, you will need to
create a *free AAA account* before logging in by following the prompt to
“Create an Account.” Once you have logged in from your account, select “Add
Meeting Registration” on the left-hand side, then choose the link “SLA 2020
Spring Conference” to proceed. After registering with the AAA, you will
receive a confirmation email and a link to submit your abstract.

*CLASP Graduate Student Paper Competition*
As part of the SLA 2020 Spring Conference, the CLASP program
<https://www.colorado.edu/program/clasp/> at the University of Colorado
Boulder is pleased to announce a call for papers for a graduate student
paper competition. The winner of the competition will be recognized and
granted a plenary spot on the SLA 2020 conference program. Submissions of
up to 8,000 words (excluding references) should be sent by *December 1,
2019* to clasp at colorado.edu. Please see the Graduate Student Paper
Competition
<https://www.colorado.edu/program/clasp/conference/graduate-student-paper-competition>
webpage
for more information on submission requirements.

*Location and Conference Hotel*
The SLA 2020 Spring Conference will take place in Boulder, Colorado, a
college town located at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains and home to
the University of Colorado Boulder. The SLA has reserved a block of
discounted rooms at the main conference hotel, Embassy Suites at the
Hiltons on Canyon
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view the 3D Tour). Offering majestic mountain views and elegant
furnishings, the Embassy Suites characterizes itself as an urban retreat
located in the heart of Boulder. Each reservation made at the SLA/CLASP
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with a two-room guest suite, a complimentary made-to-order breakfast, a
complimentary Manager’s evening reception, and access to two bars, fitness
room, and heated roof-top pool.

*Contact Information*
Updates about the conference will be posted at the SLA 2020 Spring
Conference website
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For additional information, please contact the conference organizers (SLA
Co-Chairs Judy Pine and Dominika Baran; CLASP Co-Chairs Velda Khoo and
Olivia Hirschey Marrese) at slaboulder at gmail.com.

*We look forward to welcoming you to Boulder in April!*

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*Society for Linguistic Anthropology Online*
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SLA Social Media Manager: Diego Arispe-Bazan (Northwestern University)
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