Current/Upcoming Conferences & Symposia:
Please stay tuned for future announcements about the 27th LISO Conference at UCSB, scheduled on May 16-17, 2025 (Friday and Saturday), and a LISO symposium on discourse transcription on May 18, 2025 (Sunday)!
Past Conference in 2023:
The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization GSO at UCSB (LISO) and the Center for Language, Interaction, and Culture GSA at UCLA (CLIC) are pleased to host:
The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization
May 19-20, 2023
University of California, Santa Barbara
Theme:
"Continuing and Restarting"
Plenary Speakers:
Anne Haas Dyson (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
Judith Green (University of California, Santa Barbara) More information here.
Marjorie Harness Goodwin (University of California, Los Angeles) More information here.
Waverly Duck (University of California, Santa Barbara) More information here.
Workshops By:
Diana Fernandez Romero (University Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid) More information here.
Judith Green (University of California, Santa Barbara) More information here.
Lal Zimman (University of California, Santa Barbara) More information here.
Waverly Duck (University of California, Santa Barbara) More information here
Full schedule of the conference here.
The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture.
This year's conference theme is "Continuing and Restarting", which is the title of a Conversation analysis paper (Local 1992), which studies how speakers deploy prosody to indicate if they are continuing with prior utterances or simply restarting. By borrowing this title, we hope to connect to one major approach to studies of language and social interaction - conversation analysis. This theme also echos the fact that we are "continuing and restarting" the LISO conference that has been paused since 2019, and that students and faculty are "continuing and restarting" their study and research due to Covid as well.
Registration
Please use the forms below to be able to participate in the conference by May 5th. This conference will be held free to all attendees this year in honor of the revival of the conference after 4 years; however, registration is required.
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
We seek proposals for 20-minute paper presentations which address the conference theme as they relate to any of the following topics (see list below). While submissions based on the conference theme will be particularly welcome, innovative work on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered.
Presentations related to the conference theme may include but are not limited to:
- Cross-disciplinary perspectives
- Ethics and Research
- Language acquisition
- Language and class, (dis)ability, race/ethnicity. gender/sexuality and age
- Language and Education
- Language and media
- Language policy and practice
- Meta-commentary on disciplinary frameworks
- Multilingualism and cross-/intercultural communication
- Non-Dominant epistemologies
- Political discourse, discussions of power
- Politically-engaged scholarship
Although submissions based on the conference theme will be particularly welcome, innovative works on all aspects of language and interaction will be considered.
We welcome abstracts from undergraduate and graduate students as well as faculty working in the areas of Anthropology, Applied Linguistics, Cognitive Science, Communication, Digital Humanities, Education, Ethnic Studies, Feminist Studies, Internet Studies, Literacy Studies, Linguistics, Psychology, and Sociology.
Past Conferences & Symposium
Past CLIC/LISO Conferences
CLIC and CLIC Graduate Student Association have been hosting interdisciplinary conferences on language, interaction, and culture at UCLA since 1995. Several years after the CLIC conference had become an annual event, a collaborative partnership between CLIC GSA at UCLA and the LISO graduate students at UCSB was initiated, and in 1999 UCSB hosted the CLIC/LISO conference for the first time. Since then, the two campuses of the University of California have traded off holding the conference each year. Below you'll find the programs and schedules of many of our previous gatherings.
- 2019 25th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Interaction, LISO at UCSB
- 2018 24th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2017 23rd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, LISO at UCSB
- 2016 22nd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, an Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2015 21st Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization at UCSB
- 2014 20th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization at UCLA
- 2013 19th Annual Conference On Language, Interaction, And Social Organization
- 2010 16th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2009 15th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, Social Organization, LISO at UCSB
- 2008 14th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2007 13th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, LISO at UCSB
- 2006 12th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2005 11th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization, LISO at UCSB
- 2004 10th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2003 9th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, LISO at UCSB
- 2002 8th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 2001 7th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, LISO at UCSB
- 2000 6th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 1999 5th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, LISO at UCSB
- 1998 4th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 1997 3rd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 1996 2nd Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
- 1995 1st Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Culture, CLIC at UCLA
Past LISO Symposia
In 2005, the LISO faculty began hosting a one-day symposium on the Sunday following the CLIC-LISO Conference in those years UCSB hosts the event.