LINGUIST List 23.15 Tue Jan 03 2012 Calls: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis/USA Editor for this issue: Alison Zaharee <alisonlinguistlist.org> LINGUIST is pleased to announce the launch of an exciting new feature: Easy Abstracts! Easy Abs is a free abstract submission and review facility designed to help conference organizers and reviewers accept and process abstracts online. Just go to: http://www.linguistlist.org/confcustom, and begin your conference customization process today! With Easy Abstracts, submission and review will be as easy as 1-2-3! Directory         1.     Beth Chapman , The Spring of Our Discontent: Renewing, Recycling, and Re-assembling Message 1: The Spring of Our Discontent: Renewing, Recycling, and Re-assembling Date: 22-Dec-2011 From: Beth Chapman <ed9859wayne.edu> Subject: The Spring of Our Discontent: Renewing, Recycling, and Re-assembling E-mail this message to a friend Full Title: The Spring of Our Discontent: Renewing, Recycling, and Re-assembling Date: 07-Apr-2012 - 07-Apr-2012 Location: Detroit, MI, USA Contact Person: Lukas Pawelek Meeting Email: < click here to access email > Linguistic Field(s): Discourse Analysis; Sociolinguistics Call Deadline: 27-Jan-2012 Meeting Description: 10th Annual WSU Grad Forum Graduate Student Conference Theme: The Spring of Our Discontent: Renewing, Recycling, and Re-assembling Department of Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University Conference Date: Saturday, April 7, 2012 From Rachel Carson's Silent Spring to the Arab Spring, our world is confronted by multiple environmental, political, social, and cultural crises. How do crises drive us to demand change and rethink our choices? How does crisis compel us to re-imagine ourselves? How might literature, arts, scholarship and media shape or drive protest? How do traditional understandings of gender and other social roles change? What stories do we tell ourselves about our cultures and their crises? Do we strive to radically break with the past and invent new forms? Do we recycle or renew what is already there? This conference seeks to examine the roles of literature, language and culture in responding to local and global crises. Call for Papers: Abstracts for 20 minute papers are welcome, and might include the following topics: - Language, Linguistics, and Crisis - Political and Environmental Revolution - Violence, Non-violence, and Protest - The Social Ramifications of Ecology - Gender Roles - Addiction, Paranoia, and Existential Unrest - Historical Memory - Deconstructing the Past - Building or Imagining the Future - Peace and Conflict - Empire and Resistance - Discontent, Indignation, Occupation Submission Criteria: 1. Abstracts must be in English 2. Abstracts must not exceed 200 words 3. Abstracts must contain the following information: name of the presenter, affiliation and status, mailing address, e-mail address, the title of paper 4. Presentation time limit is 20 minutes (8 pages maximum) For further information and submission, gsc10, or contact: Lukas Pawelek (dv9571wayne.edu) or Julie Koehler (aq9924wayne.edu) http://linguistlist.org/confcustom/gsc10 Submission deadline for abstracts: Friday, January 27, 2012 Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 03-Jan-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.