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- The LSA's 2009 Annual Meeting has been moved to San Francisco due to an ongoing labor dispute affecting the Portland Hilton. The host hotel will be the San Francisco Hilton. The LSA will enjoy the same excellent room rate--$99/night single or double, $129/night triple or quad--that we were to have had in Portland. More information
- Nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award are due 1 June, 2008.
- Nominations for the LSA's "Linguistics, Language and the Public" Award will be accepted until 1 June, 2008.
Survival Skills
At several LSA Summer Linguistic Institutes, COSWL sponsored weekly "Survival Skills in Academia" workshops.
- Summer 2007. Organized by Geraldine Legendre, Rachel Walker, Andrew Wong with local organizational assistance by Vivenne Fong and Anubha Kothari at Stanford University and Cati Brown, Keri Holley, and Hannah Marciniak at H5 Technologies. Speakers: Monica Macaulay (University of Wisconsin), Claire Bowern (Rice University), Rodolfo Mendoza-Denton (UC Berkeley).
- Summer 2005. Organized by Rebecca Roeder. Speakers: Hagit Borer (U. Southern California), Norma Mendoz-Denton (I. of Arizona), Suzanne Flynn (MIT), Penelop Eckert (Stanford U.).
- Summer 2003. Organized by Maryam Bakht-Rofheart and Rebecca Roeder. Speakers: Mary Bucholtz (University of California, Santa Barbara), Robin Queen (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor), Natalie Schilling-Estes (Georgetown University), Nancy Niedzielski (Rice University), Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Edinburgh), Maryam Bakht-Rofheart (New York University).
- Summer 2001. Organized by Norma Mendoza-Denton, Maryam Bakht-Rofheart, and Ken Lacy.
- Summer 1997. Organized by Justine Cassell and Sara Trechter. Speakers: Suzanne Flynn (MIT), Sally McConnell-Ginet (Cornell), Sara Trechter (Chico State University), Deborah Tannen (Georgetown), Susan Phillips (Arizona); Pat Keating (UCLA), Kira Hall (Yale), Cathy O'Connor (BU), Carol Rosen (Cornell), Bonnie McElhiny (U Toronto), Linda Waugh (Cornell), Audrey Li (USC), Sue Hertz (Eloquent Communications), MaryEllen Garcia (UT-San Antonio), Penny Eckert (Stanford), Ellen Broselow (Stony Brook), Livia Polanyi (Rice), Ellen Barton (Michigan).
- Summer 1995. Organized by Justine Cassell and Megan Crowhurst.
