LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization

The LISO 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, interaction, and culture.

The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on May 23rd and 24th, and will be followed on May 25th by a symposium on “Representing Language and Its Users.”

This year, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism, language and resistance, language and social justice, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language, interaction, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate.

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Cosponsored by the IHC’s Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Research Focus Group, Graduate Student Association, Graduate Division, Department of Linguistics, Department of Anthropology, Geoff Raymond, and Elena Skapoulli-Raymond