[Linganth] Announcing: SLA Junior Scholars Mentoring Round Table at the AAA Meeting

[Kristina Nielsen]

Dear Colleagues,

I am writing to announce the SLA Junior Scholar Mentoring Round Table at
the AAA Meeting. I encourage you to add us to your AAA schedule and to
forward this information to your linguistic anthropology students and
colleagues who may not be on this listserv. For students and all scholars
looking for mentoring, this panel is a great environment to bring your
questions about methods and professionalization. Join us to learn about
new trends in linguistic anthropology from up-and-coming scholars! This is
an event that is open to participants from any stage of their career.
Please find information for this round table below:


Title: SLA Junior Scholars Mentoring Roundtable
Time: 4:15 PM - 6:00 PM PST on Saturday, November 12
Room: SCC 2A
Panelists: Josh Babcock, Maureen Kosse, Tyanna Slobe, Cat Tebaldi, Martina
Volfova

Abstract: Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, linguistic anthropology
graduate students and recent graduates have been forced to reimagine their
lives, careers and work in a context where in-person interaction has been
rendered extremely difficult. Though all academics have had to deal with
these difficulties, graduate students have felt the urgency of a switch
from in-person to digital methods of interaction more urgently due to the
liminal nature of our positions and the short time frames in which we are
expected to achieve milestones such as learning to teach, conducting
fieldwork, networking, publishing, and entering the job market. Linguistic
anthropology graduate students have adapted to the situation of the
COVID-19 pandemic, utilizing the tools of our field to approach the social
world through tools of language analysis and semiotics, creating exciting
new research methods and sharing their works on increasingly diverse online
platforms. This round-table seeks to highlight the impressive work of these
graduate students and recent grads, providing a platform for the lessons
that these early career SLA members have gained from being forced to engage
with digital platforms to reach the wider SLA community. The members of
this round table will share their expertise on a wide range of topics of
interest to the broader linguistic anthropology community. Topics include
multi-cited digital ethnographic methods, virtually interfacing with First
Nation communities while continuing language revitalization projects,
social activism in the face of widening disparities among graduate
students, navigating the non/para-academic job market, and
transdisciplinary lessons for linguistic anthropologists interested in
conducting virtual research.


Thank you for your support,
Kristina Nielsen

SLA Graduate Student Representative
PhD Candidate
University of Pennsylvania Department of Anthropology
kniels at sas.upenn.edu
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