Tuesday, April 28, 2009

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Be included in the Sandrizona Program Booklet!

We have our presenters for Sandrizona, the linguistic anthropology exchange between UCSD and the University of Arizona. The event will be all-day on Monday, May 11th in our Ling Anth Lab, 340 SSRB (announcement to follow).

If any of you are planning on attending, we are in the process of putting together a program booklet of grad student biographies and research descriptions/abstracts. We encourage all of you to be included in the program booklet, as other grads interested in issues of lanugage.

If you wish to be included, please send a 250-word abstract/research description, and a 150-word professional bio, along with your contact email and home department to eapeacockATucsdDOTedu by Monday, May 4th. Also, feel free to pass this message on to other grads who you think might be interested.

Whether or not you wish to be included in our program booket, I hope to see you all at Sandrizona 2009!

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

General Sandrizona Schedule

(Subject to change)

Sunday night, 5/10: Pre-event Happenings
Informal drinks, food, with grad students in the Hillcrest neighborhood, south on I-5 from the main UCSD campus (by the UCSD Hillcrest Med Center)
Sandrizona, 5/11: The Main Event
9a-9:30a: Bagels and coffee, with Opening remarks
9:30-10:45a: Workshop presentations
10:45-11a: Coffee break
11-12:15p: Workshop presentations
12:15-1p: Lunch break
1-2:30p: Keynote speaker: Norma Mendoza-Denton, UofA
2:30-2:45p: Coffee break
2:45-3:20p: Workshop presentation
3:20-3:30p: Coffee break
3:30-4:05p: Workshop presentations
4:45-5p: Closing remarks
5/11: Post-event Happenings (subject to change)
More formal dinner with grads and invited guests in the La Jolla/UTC neighborhood, near the main UCSD campus

Update: Housing, Travel

We are in the process of finalizing travel and lodging plans. Carpooling for UA students will be financed by a grant obtained by Drs. Mendoza-Denton and Raichlen.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Abstracts due Monday, April 13th!

We invite interested participants to submit (a) an abstract (250 words) describing their research project, and (b) a biographical/professional description (150 words). UCSD students, please submit your abstracts and biographies to Elizabeth Peacock (eapeacock@ucsd.edu). U of A students, please submit your materials to Maisa Taha (mct@email.arizona.edu). All materials are due by 5:00pm, April 13, 2009.

Sandrizona 2009 Announcement

Sandrizona 2009
Inaugural UCSD - U of AZ Linguistic Anthropology Exchange
May 11, 2009
hosted by UCSD
With a presentation by Dr. Norma Mendoza-Denton, U of A

In an effort to nurture professional connections and scholarly exchange between graduate students interested in issues of linguistic anthropology at the University of California, San Diego and the University of Arizona, this is the first in what promises to be an ongoing series of meetings and workshops.

We invite research dealing with all aspects of language, including, but not limited to:
Language and society
Language socialization
Politics, ideologies of language
Language and identity (gender, age, ethnicity, etc.)
Minority languages, multilingualism, and other languages in contact
Gesture, Sign language, and other multimodal forms of communication

Research projects may be at any stage of completion, and be solo or joint projects. Polished presentations are not expected. Instead, we visualize this one-day exchange as an opportunity to talk through our ideas with a fresh, receptive audience of our peers and interested professors, and to receive and provide productive feedback. Each participant will have a total of 35 minutes to discuss their work; however, we will limit the number of presentations in order to give adequate attention to each project.

We invite interested participants to submit (a) an abstract (250 words) describing their research project, and (b) a biographical/professional description (150 words). All submitted materials will be distributed at the event. However, those selected to present during the workshop will have their materials distributed to all participants prior to Sandrizona, in order to encourage a high level of participant feedback. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, department, and email address. If you are a UCSD grad, please also indicate which times you are available to participate (9a-12p; 3p-6p). Housing with UCSD graduate students will be available for those graduate students visiting from U of A.

UCSD students, please submit your abstracts and biographies to Elizabeth Peacock (eapeacock@ucsd.edu). U of A students, please submit your materials to Maisa Taha (http://dss2.ucsd.edu/webmail/src/compose.php?send_to=mct%40email.arizona.edu). All materials are due by 5:00pm, April 13, 2009.
Sponsored by the UCSD Linguistic Anthropology Laboratory and the UCSD Graduate Student Association