SEALS30: 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center Honolulu, HI, United States, May 18-20, 2020 |
Conference website | https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals30 |
Submission deadline | January 13, 2020 |
The Department of Linguistics at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa invites scholars working on Southeast Asian linguistics to the 30th Annual Meeting of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society (SEALS), May 18-20, 2020, to be held on the campus of the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.
The SEALS Conference will be immediately preceded by the International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics (ISMIL) and the International Symposium on the Languages of Java (ISLOJ) on May 14-16, as well as a series of workshops on various topics and a special lecture by Dr. Robert Blust (University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa) on May 17, 2020.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions of 500-word abstracts for talks and posters will be accepted beginning November 01, 2019.
Presentations will be 20 minutes followed by 10 minutes of discussion. Abstracts should be written in English and submitted in PDF format. Abstracts must conform to the following format requirements:
- Abstract must have a clear and informative title (preferably centered at top of page, in bold, in sentence case).
- Abstracts should not exceed 1 letter-size (A4, 8.5”x11”) page, using Times New Roman 11 point font, single-spaced, with 1-inch (2.5cm) margins, inclusive of references, figures and title.
- Abstracts must be fully anonymous: authors’ names, affiliations, or pictures should not be indicated anywhere in the document.
Abstracts must be submitted by January 13, 2020 via the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seals30). For more information, see https://sites.google.com/a/hawaii.edu/seaconfs/ or email seaconfs@hawaii.edu
Important Dates:
- Deadline for Abstract Submission: January 13, 2020
- Notification of Acceptance: Early February, 2020
- Online Pre-registration: February 01 - April 15, 2020
- Online Regular Registration: April 16 – May 12, 2020
List of Topics
Abstracts dealing with any areas related to Southeast Asian Languages will be considered. Possible topics include, but are not limited to:
- phonetics and phonology
- morphology
- syntax
- semantics
- pragmatics
- discourse analysis
- genetic and areal relationships
- interactional linguistics
- historical and comparative studies
- sociolinguistic studies
- psycholinguistics
- language acquisition
- neurolinguistics
- language and culture/thought
- language documentation
- language endangerment
- language revitalization/reclamation
Invited Speakers
- Gary Holton, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
- Kitima Indambarya, Kasetsart University
- Peter Jenks, UC Berkeley
- Aldrin Lee, University of the Philippines - Diliman
Venue
The conference will be held at the Hawai‘i Imin International Conference Center (1777 East-West Road) on the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa campus in Honolulu, Hawai‘i.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to seaconfs@hawaii.edu
Sponsors
Department of Linguistics, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
National Foreign Language Resource Center
National Science Foundation
Organizing Committee
Kamil Deen, co-chair
Bradley McDonnell, co-chair
Jim Yoshioka, coordinator
Olivia Bianchini, graduate assistant