<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style type="text/css" style="display:none;"> P {margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;} </style> </head> <body dir="ltr"> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> Friends of Sociolinguistics,</div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> If you or someone you know has had to change plans for data collection in the field, this may be of interest. Suzanne</div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <b>Fieldwork at a distance</b></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Wednesday May 30 8:00 PM - 10:00 PM Michigan time</div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> Thursday May 21 <span style="margin: 0px">10:00 - 12:00 Australian Eastern Standard Time</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <span style="margin: 0px"><br> </span></div> <div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; display: inline !important">We've all thrown our 2020 fieldwork plans in the bin. Now we find ourselves in a strange new world of online work, and likely no travel, or greatly reduced travel, for the the foreseeable future. This month we look at ways we can continue our research collaborations with communities. What kinds of research projects are possible in this radically altered landscape? And how can we still support the languages and communities that we work with?</span><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; display: inline !important">....</span></div> <div style="margin: 0px"><span style="margin: 0px; display: inline !important"><span style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; display: inline !important">The panel brings together six linguists who have already been doing 'fieldwork at a distance' for some time: Claire Bowern, Emiliana Cruz, Tom Ennever, Bryn Hauk, Stephen Morey, Anthony Woodbury. The discussion will be facilitated by Ruth Singer.</span><br style="overflow-wrap: break-word"> <br> </span></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <a href="https://www.livinglanguages.org.au/comingup/lip-fieldwork-at-a-distance" style="margin: 0px">https://www.livinglanguages.org.au/comingup/lip-fieldwork-at-a-distance</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"> <br style="font-size: 16px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255)"> </div> <br> </div> <div> <div style="font-family: Calibri, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"> <br> </div> <div id="Signature"> <div></div> <div id="divtagdefaultwrapper" dir="ltr" style="font-size:12pt; color:#000000; font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif"> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0"></p> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">-----------------------</div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Suzanne Evans Wagner | she, her, hers </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Associate Professor of Linguistics and Director of Graduate Studies</div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">B-401 Wells Hall<br> Department of Linguistics and Languages<br> Michigan State University<br> East Lansing, MI 48824<br> <br> Tel: +1 (517) 355-9739<br> <a href="http://wagnersu.msu.domains" class="OWAAutoLink">wagnersu.msu.domains</a><br> <a href="http://sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains" class="OWAAutoLink">sociolab.wagnersu.msu.domains</a></div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Office hours: <a href="http://swagner.youcanbook.me/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">http://swagner.youcanbook.me</a></div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><br> </div> <div style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px"><span style="color:rgb(34,34,34); font-family:sans-serif; font-size:13px">Co-editor, </span><i style="font-variant-ligatures:inherit; font-variant-caps:inherit; font-weight:inherit"><a href="http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSLC/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">Routledge Studies in Language Change</a></i><br> </div> <p style="margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px"></p> </div> </div> </div> </body> </html>