[Linganth] SLA CFP: Imagining Linguistic Anthropology Beyond the U.S.

[Catherine Rhodes]

Seeking submissions for the following SLA panel:

Panel Theme: Imagining Linguistic Anthropology Beyond the U.S.
Who are linguistic anthropologists? How does one become a linguistic anthropologist? Where does one become a linguistic anthropologist? This panel invites participants to respond to these questions and to critically examine the state of linguistic anthropology today. By ‘state’, we mean both the current praxis-based commitments and trends in the sub-field as well as within what nation-states and other geopolitical entities linguistic anthropology is taught and practiced. In the U.S., anthropology is a four-field discipline, including archaeology and biological,cultural, and linguistic anthropology, yet few departments offer training in all four sub-fields. Linguistic anthropology—the study of language as social action—is unique to American anthropology and has rare presence outside the U.S. In some regions of the world and languages, no training programs exist. Instead, scholars are trained in sociolinguistics or sociocultural anthropology and pursue research using terms such as linguistic ethnography or linguistic landscapes. Who does this include and preclude from participation in linguistic anthropology? What kinds of projects does it invite and discourage for linguistic anthropological practice? What kind of infrastructures do we need to build a linguistic anthropology beyond the U.S.? Thinking beyond the research of individual scholars, our focus on this panel is on creating institutional frameworks, networks, training programs, and communities to grow a linguistic anthropology outside of the U.S. Papers will highlight examples of existing and imagined projects. Ample time will be dedicated to discussion.

If you have questions about or would like to submit an abstract for consideration to this panel, please contact: Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes, rhodesc at unm.edu<mailto:rhodesc at unm.edu>, University of New Mexico. Please send Dr. Rhodes your abstract (250-words max) by end of your day on Dec. 13. Final panel submissions are due to the SLA by Dec. 20, 2024.


Imagination, Creation, Critique

The 2025 Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Conference
May 29–31, 2025 | The University of Chicago, Hyde Park, Chicago
https://www.2025slaconference.org/call-for-proposals


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Dr. Catherine R. Rhodes (she/her/ella)

Assistant Professor, Sociocultural and Linguistic Anthropology
Department of Anthropology
Affiliated Faculty: Latin American and Iberian Institute; Educational Linguistics; and
Organization, Information, and Learning Sciences
Director Maya (Yucatec) Language Program
Fulbright U.S. Scholars Fellow, Mexico (2024-2025)

Anthropology Patio 107
University of New Mexico
rhodesc at unm.edu

Migration Narratives: Diverging Stories in Schools, Churches, and Civic Institutions<https://www.bloomsburycollections.com/book/migration-narratives-diverging-stories-in-schools-churches-and-civic-institutions/>
(2020, Stanton Wortham, Briana Nichols, Katherine Clonan-Roy, and Catherine Rhodes)

Undoing Modernity: Linguistics, Higher Education, and Indigeneity in Yucatan<https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477330579/undoing-modernity/>
(forthcoming University of Texas Press)
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