The deadline for submitting nominations is October 1, 2017. Created and awarded for the first time by the SLA in 2014, this award honors an SLA member… Read More »SLA Award for Public Outreach & Community Service: Call for Nominations
Rick Parmentier, Anna Babel and Ilana Gershon January 24, 2017 SLA interview with Rick Parmentier Rick Parmentier What article or book that you wrote are… Read More »Rick Parmentier’s Reflection upon Retirement
Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Fund Call for Proposals Deadline: October 1, 2018 for 2019 conferences SLA announces an initiative to fund conference submissions promoting the… Read More »2018 SLA Interdisciplinary Public Engagement Conference Fund CFP Application
SLA Interview with Charles Goodwin What article or book that you wrote are you most pleased with? Could you talk about the story behind writing… Read More »Charles Goodwin’s Reflections on Retirement
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 theme of next year’s conference is “Encounter and Interface”.
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. A table will be available for members to display new books and share information about them at the 2016 AAAs on Saturday night (11/19).
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)