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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
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Language in the (New) Media: | Conference registration | |
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| Early registration – until 7 May | $350 |
| Early registration (full-time students) | $300 |
| Registration – until 18 June | $380 |
| Registration (full-time students) | $330 |
The Language in the (New) Media conference is planned as a not-for profit event. Your registration fee will cover the main operating expenses as well as all scheduled lunches, all coffee breaks, the conference dinner, a first-night reception, and a BBQ on the second night. Wine and soft drinks are also included for these evening gatherings.
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In addition to a number of good local hotels near to campus, the University of Washington offers pleasant, affordable accommodation. (Click here for some general information about campus accommodation.)
| Double room (3 nights, 3-6 Sep, with breakfast) | $154.31 p/person |
| Single room (3 nights, 3-6 Sep, with breakfast) | $219.41 p/person |
| Additional night (e.g. 02 or 06 Sep, double room) | $54.77 p/person |
| Additional night (e.g. 02 or 06 Sep, single room) | $76.47 p/person |
The conference organizers can also make recommendations for hotels in and around the University District. In particular, we recommend Hotel Decca, the Watertown, the Silver Cloud Inn, the University Inn which are all within easy walking distance to the University of Washington campus (Note: the Silver Cloud Inn would require a fairly steep up-hill walk.)
Program
In order to help your early planning for the conference, the organizers have finalized the basic program structure, a copy of which can be downloaded here (as a PDF). This outline shows the start and finish times of the conference, the main meals and social events (first-night reception, a BBQ on the second night and the conference dinner), as well as lunches and coffee breaks. The conference planning committee is arranging an optional program of tours and activities for Sunday 06 September. A business meeting for the AILA Network will also be scheduled for the Sunday morning.
Transportation
The main aiport serving Seattle is Sea-Tac run the the Seattle Port Authority. We recommend their website for all long-distance travel and especially ground transportation information. On the website you will find up-to-date information about taxi services and the more affordable Shuttle Express. Later in 2009 the new Light Rail service is scheduled to be up and running too - taking passengers directly into downtown Seattle from where they can taxi or bus their way to the University of Washington campus. (We'll let you know if the Light Rail opens in time for the conference.)
Publication
Conference co-organizer Crispin Thurlow is planning to edit a volume provisionally titled “Language in the New Media: Technologies and Ideologies” and is in discussion with the editors of the Oxford University Press’ series Oxford Studies in Sociolinguistics. His goal would be to publish this volume in 2011.
To this end, Crispin would like to receive good quality, previously unpublished chapters which may or may not be based on papers presented at the conference. Contributions should be of no more than 7,000 words in length and should conform to APA format, please. More information about the scope of this volume will be made available nearer to the conference; in the meantime, the deadline for submission of fully completed chapters for review will be 31 March 2010.
Organizers
The conference is being hosted by the University of Washington’s Department of Communication with support also coming from the Department of Linguistics, the Language & Rhetoric Program in the Department of English, Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences (UW Bothell), and especially the Simpson Center for the Humanities.
The conference organizers are Crispin Thurlow, Kristine Mroczek and Jamie Moshin, Department of Communication, University of Washington, Box 353740, Seattle, WA 98195, USA. Please direct any queries to the organizers at lim2009@u.washington.edu.
Disability accommodations
To request disability accommodations, please contact the Disability Services Office at least 10 days in advance at: 206-543-6450 (voice), 206-543-6452 (TTY), 206-685-7246 (fax) or via email at
dso@u.washington.edu . Please also feel free to let the organizers know directly if there is anything they can do.