SALSA is back, back, back again! We are excited to announce that following last year’s successful conference after our three-year-COVID-hiatus, the Symposium About Language and Society in Austin will be taking place on January 17 & 18, 2025. Continuing in our new home of Linguistic Anthropology, the organizing committee looks forward to welcoming scholars on language and society back to Austin for an engaging conference and hopefully even more engaging conversation. The Call for Papers went life starting in late-September, with papers accepted through November 5, 2023.

This year’s keynote speaker will be Dr. Erin Debenport (University of California, Los Angeles), who will be presenting their wonderful work!

We look forward to seeing y’all in Austin!

We’d like to thank each and every one of you who submitted an abstract for SALSA 2024! Because of you, this was the most abstracts the conference has ever received!

However, this made our decision process much harder, especially as the scope of the conference will be smaller than previous years.

All submissions should have been responded to by now with a decision.

For those of you who have been accepted to present at SALSA, we look forward to seeing you in Austin in a few weeks.

For those of you who we could not accommodate this year, we hope you will consider submitting your work to SALSA in the future.

We thoroughly enjoyed reading every single one of your abstracts and are deeply excited to be a part of a community producing such important work on Language and its role in Society.

The deadline for submitting your SALSA 2024 Abstracts has been extended until Monday, November 13th, to allow for additional interested parties to participate.

Any submissions received past the extended deadline will not be considered.

Responses are expected to be sent out in early December.

Thanks and we look forward to reading your work,

SALSA Co-Chairs