ST&D 2024: 2024 Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Lewis Towers at the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago Chicago, IL, United States, July 17-20, 2024

Conference website	https://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2024/
Submission link	https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2024
Conference program	https://easychair.org/smart-program/STD2024/

34th Annual Meeting of the Society for Text & Discourse: Call for Proposals

The Society for Text & Discourse is proud to announce its 2024 annual meeting to be held July 17-19, 2024 in Lewis Towers at the Water Tower Campus of Loyola University Chicago. Lewis Towers is located at 111 E. Pearson Street in downtown Chicago, IL, USA on the "Magnificent Mile". We invite the submission of proposals for individual papers and posters to present original research on text and discourse processing, representation, and analysis.

The Society for Text & Discourse is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of text and discourse.  The purpose of the Society is to foster and promote excellence in research, enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines, and contribute to the education and professional development of those in the field or entering the field.  For researchers who are new to the Society, the range of topics that are generally presented at the conference can be seen by looking at past programs: https://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/past-conferences/

The 2024 conference is planned to be held with in-person presentations and poster sessions. We are hoping to accommodate remote attendance for at least some of the spoken presentations as well as an asynchronous virtual poster session for members who cannot travel to the conference. In addition to plenary addresses by the Distinguished Scientific Contribution Award and the Tom Trabasso Young Investigator Award recipients, we are also planning a celebration of the contributions of Walter Kintsch as a focal part of the program.

**The submission page will open on November 5, 2023. The submission deadline will be February 15th, 2024**

Submission Website

https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=std2024

Presentation Formats and Submission Options

ST&D 2024 submission options include the following:

1. Spoken Presentations: To be presented in person
2. Poster Presentations: To be presented in person 
3. Remote Presentations: To be presented in an asynchronous virtual session (e.g., via Flip.com)

Proposals for all of the above are due by February 15, 2024 via EasyChair.

Call for Symposia or Discussions

Proposals for special sessions should include a set of in-person presentations or a suggestion of a topic for a panel or roundtable discussion on a theme or issues important to the Society.

Proposals or suggestions for special sessions (title, short description, list of potential contributors) should be submitted by email to std2024 at easychair.org by January 2, 2024. The Program Committee will provide feedback by mid-January, in time to submit individual proposals. 

Submission Format for Spoken, Poster, and Remote Presentations

When submitting in EasyChair, authors will be prompted to enter or indicate: 

1. Author information (Name, Affiliation, Country and Email addresses for all authors)
2. Presentation Title (Maximum length 255 characters)
3. A 75-word abstract (To appear in the program)
4. Keywords (A list of at least three)
5. Submission preference (1. In person - No preference between Poster and Spoken, 2. In person - Poster only, 3. In person - Spoken only, 4. Remote)  
6. Award eligibility 

In addition, authors will be prompted to upload a pdf file containing:

1. A 1200-word summary of the presentation with the title
2. A reference section (not included in word count)  

The summary should have a title but no author information. It should contain basic sections including a short theoretical introduction/framework, methodological overview (describing quantitative, qualitative, or mixed approach), key findings, and a brief discussion. The summary will be submitted as a pdf file and should be saved using a generic name (e.g. summary.pdf) and not author names. Proposals that exceed the length specified will not be reviewed. 

Submission-based Awards

Each year, the Society for Text & Discourse recognizes excellence in research for projects primarily conducted by recent doctorates, doctoral candidates, and graduate students, or projects conducted by or significantly supported by undergraduate students. To be eligible for consideration for one of these awards, submitters must indicate the award eligibility during submission. Projects may only be considered for a single award category. Eligible proposals will first be evaluated for quality by the Program Review Committee, and the highest reviewed proposals will then be sent to the ST&D Awards Committee for final consideration. Award finalists may be asked to submit additional information regarding their submission. As a final step, dissertation advisors and/or research supervisors will be contacted by the Awards Committee to ensure that finalists have met all qualifications for the award. Recipients of each award receive a certificate and a $150 award check.

• Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award: The Jason Albrecht Outstanding Young Scientist Award (JAOYSA) honors the memory of Jason Albrecht, a promising young text and discourse researcher who passed away in 1997. The award recognizes an outstanding paper based on a doctoral dissertation. The doctoral candidate or recent doctorate must be first author on the paper.

• Graduate Student Research Award: The Graduate Student Research Award recognizes quality in pre-dissertation work that is predominantly that of a graduate student. Accordingly, the graduate student must be first author on the paper. 

• Undergraduate Student Research Award: The Undergraduate Student Research award recognizes quality in work that is predominately that of an undergraduate student, or research to which the undergraduate student contributed a significant amount of effort and support.

• Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Travel Award: The purpose of the Equity and Diversity in Text and Discourse Award is to promote diversity within the Society for Text and Discourse by supporting research on text and discourse related to diversity as well as research by individuals from underrepresented groups. See here for details. 

See here for a list of past award winners

Student Travel Awards

Awards will be made available to support student travel. Applications will be solicited after the submission deadline to all student presenters. All students will be eligible to apply. Priority is typically given to students who are presenting, and students without sufficient funding from other sources.  

Membership and Discounted Conference Registration Rates

ST&D is committed to making the 2024 conference accessible to all members. Authors do not need to be members to submit to the conference, however current ST&D members will receive a significant discount on conference registration. Click here to become a member of ST&D

Conference registration rates will be announced when the program is released in the spring of 2024.  Links to the registration system and the program will be posted on the conference website, http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2024/ . Members and corresponding authors on submissions will recieve a notice directly.

ST&D 2024 Conference Organizing Committee

• Jennifer Wiley (Conference Chair)
• Anne Britt (Program Chair)
• Mike Wolfe (Special Sessions Chair)
• Perla B. Gámez
• Tricia Guerrero
• Scott Hinze (ST&D Secretary and Conference Webmaster)

Additional Information

Questions about ST&D 2024, this call for papers, submissions, or the submission process should be emailed to std2024 at easychair.org 

For more information on the 2024 Annual Meeting including information on accommodations, please see http://www.societyfortextanddiscourse.org/std-2024/ . Since the Society has reserved rooms at nearby hotels using courtesy blocks instead of contracts, attendees are free to find their own accommodation options without any negative repercussions to the Society. We encourage everyone to make arrangements early because there is another city-wide conference at the same time as our meeting.