Committee/Organizing Meeting

Hosted by: Society for Linguistic Anthropology

Of interest to: Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students, Those Involved in Mentoring Activities

(5-0650) Society for Linguistic Anthropology Presidential Conversation: Language and Social Justice in Practice

This SLA Presidential Conversation provides a forum for contributors to the collaborative book project Language & Social Justice in Practice to discuss approaches to intersections between language and social justice, in conversation with SLA President Asif Agha and the audience. Editors Avineri, Graham, Johnson, Riner, and Rosa describe their endeavors to embody principles of social justice in the book's publication process. Authors from the book’s sections (activism, education, health, policy, race & racism) dialogue with the editors, one another, SLA president, and the audience about modes by which linguistic anthropology can contribute to exploring relationships between language and social justice.

Chair(s)

• Asif Agha

  Professor of Anthropology
  University of Pennsylvania

Organizer(s)

• Netta Avineri

  Associate Professor
  Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey

• Eric Johnson

  Associate Professor of Bilingual/ESL Education
  Washington State University Tri-Cities

• Laura Graham

  Professor
  University of Iowa

• Robin Conley Riner

  Associate Professor
  Marshall University

• Jonathan Rosa

  Assistant Professor
  Stanford University

Participant(s)

• Dominika Baran

  Duke University

• Steven Black

  Assistant Professor
  Georgia State University

• Charles Briggs

  University of California, Berkeley

• Mary Bucholtz

  University of California, Santa Barbara

• Mariam Durrani

  Assistant Professor
  Hamilton College

• Martha Martinez

  Director of Research & Evaluation
  Sobrato Early Academic Language (SEAL) model

• Leila Monaghan

  Department of Anthropology
  Northern Arizona University

• Bernard Perley

  Associate Professor
  University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

• Lal Zimman

  Assistant Professor
  University of California, Santa Barbara