#rescomm

I am so excited to share the International Conference on Linguistics Communication, happening online the week of April 19-23, 2021. The conference will be made up of moderated panels and poster presentations about lingcomm projects. 

Conference website: https://lingcomm.org/conference/

Speaker/poster submission: https://lingcomm.org/conference/participate (submissions close March 19, 2021)

Registration: via EventBrite

We’ve kept registration as low as possible, and the plenary workshop stream will be live captioned in English.

If you’re more interested in enjoying good lingcomm than making it, stay tuned for LingFest, coming the lat week of April: https://lingcomm.org/lingfest

From the LingComm21 conference website:

The International Conference on Linguistics Communication (LingComm21) brings together lingcommers from a variety of backgrounds, including linguists who have developed skills in communicating with public audiences and communicators who have developed a “beat” related to language.

Taking advantage of a digital-first format to bring together lingcommers from around the world, LingComm21 is a small, highly interactive conference containing a mix of beginner and advanced panels on specific areas of lingcomm, as well as smaller special sessions emerging from the shared interests of attendees. Tell us which topics you can speak to, and we’ll match you with co-panelists who share your interests.

Confirmed invited speakers (so far):

Kate Burridge, Monash University

Nicole Holliday, University of Pennsylvania

Ben Zimmer, The Wall Street Journal

Megan Figueroa and Carrie Gillon, Vocal Fries

Lane Greene, The Economist

Mignon Fogarty, Grammar Girl

Daniel Midgely, Because Language

Grant Barrett, A Way with Words

Helen Zaltzman, The Allusionist

Kory Stamper, Word by Word

Dates: For much of the world, the conference will run April 19-22, in a single four-hour block each day beginning at UTC 20:00. That’s beginning at 10am in Honolulu, 1pm in Seattle, 4pm in Montreal, 9pm in London, and 10pm in Paris. For those on the leading edge of time zones, the conference will run April 20-23, beginning at 6am in Melbourne and 8am in Auckland.

Platform: The conference will be held in a custom space on Gather, a proximity chat platform which lets participants wander around and chat with in spontaneous small groups between sessions, and which includes a virtual coffeeshop and pub for off-hours and informal meetups.

Organising committee: Laura Bailey, Lauren Gawne, Jessi Grieser, and Gretchen McCulloch make up LingComm21’s steering committee. Elizabeth McCullough is the conference manager.

Over the last few years I’ve been refining a workshop on planning research communication projects. It includes all the main questions you need to ask yourself as you take your initial idea through to reality.

I’ve turned the basic elements of the workshop into a public self-directed slide set, so that you can use it as a resource to plan your scicomm, lingcomm or any genre of rescomm project!

This self-directed slide set provides you with an introduction to planning a Research Communication project. 

Following these slides will help you:

Think about what is involved in research communication

Brainstorm about how you can communicate research

Write down a plan that you can start to put into action

The workshops I run involve a more targeted approach, focusing on specific areas of expertise and/or different research communication projects, including commercial and noncommercial work in a range of different media. 

If you’re interested in a workshop get in touch! laurengawne.com/contact/