SLA Invited & Co-Sponsored Sessions & Meetings
Thursday, November 30
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – SLA graduate student paper contest: Semiotic processes across scale media, and voice – Omni, Cabinet
6:30 PM – 8:15 PM – Taking Action in Troubled Times: Learning and Engaging with Shirley Brice Heath – Marriott, Balcony A
Friday, December 1
7:30 AM – 8:45 AM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Board Meeting – Marriott, Park Tower 8219
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) & AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) Language and Social Justice Task Force Meeting – Marriott, Wilson A
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Toward a transdisciplinary coalition in sociocultural linguistics: A collaborative analysis of presidential discourse in Trump’s Black History Month Listening Session – Omni, Congressional B
Saturday, December 2
7:45 PM – 9:00 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Business Meeting – Marriott, Thurgood Marshall East
9:15 PM – 10:30 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Reception and Cash Bar – Marriott, Thurgood Marshall East
All SLA panels
(I got this from the online scheduler, so if I’m missing something, please let me know! – babel.6@osu.edu)
Wednesday, November 29
8:00 AM – 4:00 PM – Technological Methodologies in Language Documentation and Anthropology – Marriott, Park Tower 8217
12:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Inter/faces: Semiotic Approaches to the Materiality of Computer-Mediated Communication – Marriott, Roosevelt 4
12:00 PM – 1:45 PM – Multilingualism in the Classroom – Marriott, Maryland Suite C
2:15 PM – 4:00 PM – Language and Material Outcomes – Marriott, Roosevelt 2
Thursday, November 30
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Sensory networks and the anthropological study of expressives – Marriott, Wilson B
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – On the Politics of Labels – Omni, Capitol
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – The Social Lives of Linguistic Legacy Materials – Omni, Diplomat Ballroom
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM – Face-to-Face: Celebrating the Work and Impact of Chuck and Candy Goodwin – Marriott, Virginia Suite A
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – From the Alt-Right to Social Justice Warriors: Gender Politics and Social Media – Marriott, Maryland Suite B
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Modality Matters in Language Ideology: Embodied Experience and Signing Practices – Marriott, Madison A
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Collaborative Linguistic Anthropology Matters: to Native American Communities – Omni, Calvert
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Describing Multilingualism in Postcolonial Societies – Marriott, Madison A
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Rethinking Sherzer’s A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture 30 years on (Part 1) – Omni, Forum
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – SLA graduate student paper contest: Semiotic processes across scale media, and voice – Omni, Cabinet
6:30 PM – 8:15 PM – Beyond the Human, Beyond the Subfield: Integrating Linguistic and Environmental Anthropology – Marriott, Virginia Suite B
6:30 PM – 8:15 PM – Disciplining Bodies, Disciplining Tongues: Language, Embodiment and (Dis)citizenship – Marriott, Wilson C
6:30 PM – 8:15 PM – Rethinking Sherzer’s A Discourse-Centered Approach to Language and Culture 30 years on (Part 2) – Omni, Forum
6:30 PM – 8:15 PM – Taking Action in Troubled Times: Learning and Engaging with Shirley Brice Heath – Marriott, Balcony A
Friday, December 1
7:30 AM – 8:45 AM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Board Meeting – Marriott, Park Tower 8219
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Enregistering Emotion – Marriott, Virginia Suite B
8:00 AM – 12:00 PM – Academic Genres as Anthropological Straitjackets – Marriott, Buchanan
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Digital Sexualities: Negotiating, Constructing, and Selling (A)sexual Selves Online – Marriott, Roosevelt 5
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Language in the Era of Donald Trump – Omni, Governors
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Professional Divides V: Journalists and Anthropologists in Conversation about News Reporting, Politics and Belief Systems – Marriott, Coolidge
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) & AAA Committee for Human Rights (CfHR) Language and Social Justice Task Force Meeting – Marriott, Wilson A
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Ideologies of Linguistic Belonging and Ownership: Ethnographic Perspectives on Signed Language – Omni, Palladian Ballroom
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Research, Me-search, and Soulsearch: Learning Ethnographic Ethics in Linguistic Anthropology – Marriott, Washington Room 3
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Toward a transdisciplinary coalition in sociocultural linguistics: A collaborative analysis of presidential discourse in Trump’s Black History Month Listening Session – Omni, Congressional B
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Assembling Audiences, Legitimizing Languages: Ethnographies of Media Practice in Multilingual Asia – Marriott, Delaware Suite A
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Rethinking Communicative Competence in Social Fields of Inequality: The Politics of Everyday Constructions of Competence – Omni, Congressional A
Saturday, December 2
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Language and Agency in Confinement: The Semiotics of the Carceral State – Omni, Governors
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Language and the Construction of Social, Cultural, and Racial Difference – Omni, Palladian Ballroom
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Gesture Ideologies – Marriott, Virginia Suite C
12:15 PM – 1:30 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Presidential Conversation: Mentoring and Social Justice – Marriott, Taylor
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Food Talk Matters: How Health, Wealth, and Security Are Semiotically Produced, Consumed and Unequally Distributed – Omni, Calvert
2:00 PM – 3:45 PM – Towards a Classic Mayan Historical Sociolinguistics – Omni, Forum
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Techno-semiotic approaches to entextualization – Marriott, Washington Room 3
4:15 PM – 6:00 PM – Ten years of a coalition in sociocultural linguistics: Contemporary and future directions – Marriott, Taylor
7:45 PM – 9:00 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Business Meeting – Marriott, Thurgood Marshall East
9:15 PM – 10:30 PM – Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) Reception and Cash Bar – Marriott, Thurgood Marshall East
Sunday, December 3
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Language, Race, and Digital Space – Marriott, Johnson
8:00 AM – 9:45 AM – Pushing beyond the code: Shifting perspectives on dialect, stance, and register – Marriott, Washington Room 2
10:15 AM – 12:00 PM – Accountability, Expertise, and Embodiment in Interaction – Marriott, Delaware Suite A
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM – Caring Matters: New Perspectives on Language and Care – Marriott, Roosevelt 1
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM – Emotion, Register, and Politics – Marriott, Jefferson
12:15 PM – 2:00 PM – Online Talk Matters: Digital Discourse Strategies – Marriott, Delaware Suite A