2014-2016 Conference, Workshop, ect...

[JD - (0)]

Since 2014 is almost over, as well as application for 2014's events,  this is a forum for the events taking place in the following year. If you are attending, or having any questions on attending any workshop or conference this following year. 

 

Workshops and Conferences, amongst others are great ways to not only learn from colleagues, but also meet others to create connections, and possibly collaborate with. That is how you get your name out there, by attending, and or presenting at these events. Comments, Questions, Concerns are welcome.

 

JD.

[Alichka]

Hey JD!

I am presenting a poster at the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation in Hawaii in February 2015.  My very first conference presentation, yippee!

 

Anyone else attending that? 

[JD - (0)]

Hi Alishka, That sounds like fun. I do am not attending that one. So you will be presenting? have you presented at small conferences, like at your university or so be this one?

[JD - (0)]

I will be doing my first Conference Presentation as well at Dictionary Society of North America (DSNA) Conference in Colombia, Canada, in June 2015. I am looking forward to it, but there is also a lot that I need to prepare for. 

[logdice]

Oh, JD, I'll be presenting at DSNA in Vancouver too! Have you been to the DSNA conference before? I've attended and presented several times, so if you have any DSNA-specific questions I'm happy to answer them. It's a very nice, small crowd; joining together with the SHEL (Society for the History of the English Language) crowd should make it a bigger crowd but it's likely we'll mingle like the nice people we are.

 

I'm undecided about whether to go to the LSA conference in Portland next month—actually I guess it hinges on an admissions decision that I should be getting any day now. I will also likely go to NAACL in Denver, and hope to attend the LSA Summer Institute in Chicago.

[JD - (0)]

Hey Logdice, that is super Awesome.

 

This will be my first time. I am glad to find someone who will be there. I was also considering going to the LSA Summer Institute in Chicago over the summer as well. I was not planning on the NAACL conference coincide on the last day with the DSNA. I am however highly thinking of attending the LSA Conference. Let me know if you end up going. These will also be my first conferences outside of Florida as well. So, I am not sure what to expect just yet. Any pointers would be awesome. 

[JD - (0)]

Also, logdice, Have you attended any of the previous LSA conferences?

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[JD - (0)]

Also, have you been to these places? what is housing, and transportation is like?

[logdice]

I've lived in Chicago (went to UChicago undergrad), but I haven't been to Portland or Vancouver. I went to LSA in 2009 in San Francisco and it was really great, but FWIW don't feel like I'm equipped to compare LSA and ACL. I was pretty new to Linguistics in 2009 so LSA was a total smorgasbord of awesome excitingness—Optimality Theory, multiple sessions on sign language stuff, a whole bunch of cool work that I'll probably never work on but really neat to know it's going on and look for connections to my own work.

 

Chicago is great, pretty affordable, and has full coverage in public transit (better to fly into Midway airport than to O'Hare, though). But it's spread out enough that If you go to Summer Institute you should definitely stay in Hyde Park, and not even consider looking anywhere else to commute to U of C campus. It will also be very hot in July, and though I'm not sure how the heat index compares with Gainesville in July, the housing stock in Hyde Park is old enough that you cannot count on everywhere being air conditioned: on-campus student housing will have A/C, off-campus might not.

 

DSNA always has both a high-end and a budget accommodation option, and actually the $56/night for a private bedroom in a four-person suite (http://events.arts.ubc.ca/dsna-20&shel-9/travel_and_lodging/index.html ) sounds like a pretty good deal for the budget end. The budget accommodation has always sold out before I've gotten around to booking it for every conference I've attended, but maybe this year I'll get to it sooner.

[JD - (0)]

Awesome. Thank you. I am planning on attending LSA. I will be making that decision over during this weekend. Which admission are you awaiting on?

[Colombo]

I will present at DSNA, too! I've presented at conferences before, but never at DSNA. Looking forward to meet you all there!

[JD - (0)]

Awesome Sociolinguist, I will see you then. What are you presenting?

 

I officially will be attending SLA in Portland. If anyone here is attending, holler. 

[Colombo]

Hi JD! Sorry it took me so long to get back to you - I haven't been on here for a while. I'll talk about language ideologies in Sri Lanka. What about you?