[Linganth] LSJ webinar Saturday from 1:00pm US Eastern: "Citations and Syllabi for Social Justice"

[Edwin Everhart]

Dear colleagues,

Please see the flyer (attached) and details (below) for the upcoming
Language and Social Justice committee webinar, Upsetting the Linguistic
Anthropology Canon: Citations and Syllabi for Social Justice. The webinar
is Saturday, 5 December from 1:00-3:00pm Eastern time (USA). Registration
is required.

*NOTE: *The webinar will not be recorded, but we will take detailed notes
and produce a written report.

Registration link:
https://duke.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYvdO2hpjgrGdInNWiBQ1vaJV7kueMYpNQW

Webinar details:
This webinar addresses social justice in our citations as anthropological
linguists & linguistic anthropologists. While we hope the webinar will be
helpful to both academic and non-academic scholars, in both teaching and
non-teaching roles, parts of the webinar will focus on syllabi and teaching
in linguistic anthropology.

The goal of the webinar is to produce a guide for anthropological linguists
& linguistic anthropologists. The guide will contain suggested best
citation practices and an ordered list of recommended resources, both for
personal use and for use use in actual syllabi. We will post this guide on
the Language and Social Justice webpage and share it by email - ideally
providing a meaningful resource for all anthropologists.

Agenda:

1) Introductions

2) Discussion: intellectual history and canon
- What topics, authors, and specific works are getting assigned in our
linguistic anthropology & anthropological linguistics classes?
- Who belongs in our canon? Who has been erased from our canon?
- Who has been allowed to do theory, and who has been disallowed? Where has
theory been allowed/disallowed to come from?

3) Discussion: citation practices
- How should we go about finding sources?
- How can we use our citations to work against oppression and in the
service of broader social justice work?
- How can we use our citations to meaningfully support and amplify the work
of marginalized scholars?

4) Recommended resources
- What topics, authors, and specific works should we prioritize in teaching
linguistic anthropology & anthropological linguistics? To quote Dr.
Lynnette Arnold, here we will collect "suggestions of resources - articles,
podcasts, short news pieces, etc. - about language by scholars and
activists of color that work well for introductory-level courses." We can
begin by considering the LSJ email thread titled "suggestions to upset the
Intro to Ling Anthro canon" which Dr. Arnold began on June 30, 2020, as
well as the LINGANTH email thread which Dr. Teruko Mitsuhara began on June
17, 2020 titled “Language & Culture Course / Covid syllabi and Race.”

5) Syllabi
- How should we structure our syllabi, including the order of topics?
Colleagues have argued, for example, that we should not leave topics like
colonization and language ideologies to the end of the course, but rather
address these issues early on so that students can connect them to other
themes and understand the field more completely. For now, we will focus on
introductory syllabi, considering both undergraduate and graduate courses,
and the different needs and affordances of each.

-- 
Edwin K. Everhart (he/him)
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