Every year the Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) confers an award for a distinguished undergraduate research paper. Selected winners will be awarded $500, a certificate of… Read More »SLA 2017 Undergraduate Student Essay Contest
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology is pleased to announce that plans are well under way for our first Spring Conference, March 8-10, in Philadelphia at… Read More »Announcing SLA Spring 2018 Meeting
Submission Deadline: May 15, 2017 The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded to a book that makes the most significant… Read More »Announcement: Edward Sapir Book Prize 2017
Anthropology News Column By Mariam Durrani, Netta Avineri, Kathleen C. Riley, Hilary Parsons Dick, and Susan D. Blum This post is a summary of the… Read More »AN News: Language and Social Justice Committee Storify (Language and Social Justice Committee)
Anthropology News Column SLA Business Meeting Saturday, November 19th, 2016 President’s Report Report on SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Award: Supported invited colloquium at AAAL by… Read More »AN News: SLA Business Meeting Report
From Anthropology News Trump’s Formulaic Twitter Insults Trumped Up Words Adam Hodges Every presidential transition also involves a change in the regime of language. This… Read More »AN News: Trump’s Formulaic Twitter Insults
Prepared by: Netta Avineri, Susan D Blum, Hilary Parsons Dick, and Robin Conley Riner About the Listserv The Language & Social Justice (LSJ) listserv is… Read More »Directions for Signing up for the LSJ Committee Listserv
Anthropology News Column On campus violence, language, and the climate of fear. Monday was my birthday. I was taking a walk along the river near my… Read More »AN News: “Run, Hide, Fight” by Anna M. Babel (The Ohio State University)
Anthropology News Article By Miranda Cady Hallett (U of Dayton) and Lynnette Arnold (U Mass-Amherst) During the 20th century, military dictatorships in Latin America became… Read More »AN News: “Detention, Disappearance, and the Power of Language” by Miranda Cady Hallett and Lynnette Arnold
The 23rd annual conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization will be held a the University of California, Santa Barbara on May 19-20, 2017. The… Read More »LISO Conference
Overview The Society for Linguistic Anthropology Committee on Language & Social Justice (LSJ) will be organizing social media artifacts (tweets, Instagram posts, etc.) into a… Read More »Tweet-and-Storify about Language and Social Justice at AAA 2016
SLA Board is happy to announce an opportunity for members with recently published books that they would like to display to the membership at large.… Read More »DIY table: New books at SLA business meeting
Please see below a list of events that the Language and Social Justice Task Force is sponsoring and/or participating in at this year’s AAAs in… Read More »Language and Social Justice Task Force events at #AAA2016
The Society for Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) panels and other events at the upcoming AAA Annual Meeting (November 16-20 in Minneapolis,MN) promise to be exciting ones.… Read More »AN News: “SLA at the 2016 AAA Meeting” by Aaron Ansell and Anna Babel
Readings and other resources for use in linguistic anthropology classes on topics of police violence, the Black Lives Matter movement, and structural racism
SLA Award for Public Outreach and Community Service: Call for Nominations The submission deadline is October 15, 2016. Created and awarded for the first time by… Read More »Last Call: Nominations for Public Outreach Award (Oct 15)
Bernard Bate died peacefully in his sleep in March of this year. There will be a memorial session for Barney Bate on Friday, November 18th… Read More »Memorial session for Barney Bate
Paul Friedrich passed away on August 11. Below please find links to two very moving obituaries. William Beeman has arranged a remembrance session to be… Read More »Paul Friedrich remembrance session
Anthropology News Article Netta Avineri (Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey), Susan D. Blum (U of Notre Dame), Eric Johnson (Washington State U Tri-Cities),… Read More »AN News: “The Gap That Won’t Be Filled: An anthropolitical critique of the ‘Language Gap’” by Avineri et. al.
Anthropology News Article Since 2000, any agency receiving government funding is legally obligated to provide clients with access to interpreters who speak their language. However,… Read More »AN News: “Difficult Interpretations: Linguistic anthropology and access to social services” by Rusty Barrett (U Kentucky), Hilaria Cruz (U Kentucky), and María Luz García (Eastern Michigan U)