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  1. Deadline extended for SLA Annual Student Paper Prizes

    Dear SLA Colleagues, I’m posting this message on behalf of my fellow SLA Executive Committee Member at Large, Jillian Cavanaugh, who is organizing this year’s SLA Annual Student Paper Prize competition. In the hope of having more submissions and a more competitive field, she is extending the deadline until June 30. She would also like [...]

  2. Sign Linguistics courses 3L Summer School in Leiden: 5 – 9 July 2010

    The International Summer School on Language Documentation and Description will be held in July 2010 in Leiden, the Netherlands.

  3. Publisher Discounts on SLA Website

    Oxford and Elsevier offer discounts to SLA members.

  4. Study the life and culture of the Highland Maya (Deadline: March 26, 2010)

    Ethnographic Field School in Highlan Guatemala 6 undergraduate credits in anthropology May 25–July 8, 2010 (two days on-campus, six weeks abroad) Maury Hutcheson, Ph.D. mhutcheson@vcu.edu Program cost: $2,380 (includes roundtrip airfare) plus applicable VCU tuition[1] Based in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, this six-week program will provide students with a comprehensive overview of Mayan indigenous life in Guatemala, [...]

  5. CFP Volunteer Session AAA 2010: “Circulate-able” Selves

    CFP Volunteer Session AAA 2010: How We Formulate “Circulate-able” Selves: Introductions as a Social and Political Discourse Genre. Send to Nathaniel Dumas by March 15th, 2010.

  6. AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

    AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

  7. Potential Search for a Linguistic Anthropologist

    The Department of Anthropology at Georgia State University seeks nominations for a linguistic anthropologist at the rank of assistant or associate professor to join a university-wide and interdisciplinary research initiative on “Language and Culture.” The candidate’s research foci must include language acquisition and enculturation, communicative development in cultural contexts, and cross-cultural approaches to linguistic capacity, [...]

  8. Grad student SLA representative to AAA Student Rep Caucus [Update: Found]

    [Update: a student representative has been found] The AAA is creating a Student Representative Caucus and wishes to include representatives from the various sections. Although SLA does not have a student representative on it board, we’ve been invited to appoint a student to the caucus who is interested in representing our wing and communicating to [...]

  9. Opening: Editor for Journal of Linguistic Anthropology (Deadline extended to Jan. 25)

    JLAWe are now seeking nominations and applications for a new editor (or editorial team) for JLA.

  10. Curriculum and syllabus workshop (proposals due March 1, 2010)

    CWA would like to work with sections to co-present a collaborative workshop at the 2010 annual meetings on World Anthropologies Curriculum and Syllabus Development.

  11. International scholarship competition (proposals due January 10, 2010)

    The Commission on World Anthropologies (CWA) is seeking proposals from sections for invited sessions featuring the participation of international scholars at the 2010 AAA annual meetings.

  12. Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2010)

    The Edward Sapir Book Prize was established in 2001 and is awarded in alternate years to a book that makes the most significant contribution to our understanding of language in society, or the ways in which language mediates historical or contemporary sociocultural processes. The SLA invites books with conceptual and theoretical focus, as well as [...]