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Category Archives: Announcements

  1. 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, past and present, including opportunities [...]

  2. 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.

  4. AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

    AAA 2010: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

  5. 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 [...]

  6. 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 [...]

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 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.

  10. 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 [...]

  11. Tell us about your program!

    One of the new website features we are very excited about is the new Program Directory. We hope this will become the most reliable place on the internet to learn about colleges, graduate schools and summer programs offering courses in linguistic anthropology. But this directory won’t build itself! If you teach or study linguistic anthropology, [...]

  12. American Anthropological Association 2009 Annual Meeting

    Panels and meetings of interest to linguistic anthropologists at the 2009 meeting of the American Anthropological Association.

  13. Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize (2009)

    Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize

  14. 15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization University of California, Santa Barbara May 14-16, 2009*

    Conference Announcement, Conference Registration Now Open
    15th ANNUAL CONFERENCE on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization University of California, Santa Barbara May 14-16, 2009*
    The annual conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction.
    Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, [...]

  15. Student Paper Prizes in Linguistic Anthropology Competitions for both Graduate and Undergraduate Students

    The Society for Linguistic Anthropology announces a competition for Outstanding Paper by a Student, one each at both undergraduate and graduate levels.  To be eligible for this award, an applicant must have been either a graduate or undergraduate (in a degree-granting program) when the paper was written, must be the sole author of the paper, [...]

  16. AAA 2009: SLA Call for Invited Sessions

    Dear Linguistic Anthropologists,
    It’s that time of year again:  The Society of Linguistic Anthropology (SLA) invites your submissions for the American Anthropological Association’s 108th Annual Meeting, to be held in Philadelphia, PA, on December 2-6, 2009.  As this year’s SLA Section Program Editor, I am writing to encourage you to submit invited sessions, volunteered sessions, and [...]

  17. Call for submissions for the Sapir Prize

    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 [...]

  18. Resolution on Language Questions in the US Census

    Proposed by CfHR Task Group on Language and Social Justice
    Laura R. Graham, Chair, Ana Celia Zentella, Bonnie Uricioli
    (With assistance from Terry Turner)
    Whereas:
    Anthropology as a profession is committed to the promotion and protection of the right of peoples everywhere to the full realization of their humanity, which is to say their capacity for culture,
    and whereas
    As a [...]

  19. Linguistic Anthropology Sessions at the AAA

    List of linguistic anthropology sessions at the 2007 AAA.

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