For much of the world, LingComm21 will run April 19-22, in a four-hour block each day beginning at 20:00 UTC. That’s beginning at 10am in Honolulu, 1pm in Seattle, 4pm in Montreal, 9pm in London, and 10pm in Paris. For those on the leading edge of time zones, the conference will run April 20-23, beginning at 6am in Melbourne and 8am in Auckland.
Each day of the conference will include four 45-minute time slots, one beginning at the top of each hour, with 15-minute breaks between formally scheduled events. Some time slots will have multiple sessions running simultaneously.
Detailed Program
Click on the links below to convert each day and time to your local time zone.
DAY 1 (beginning Monday, April 19, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
| HOUR 1 (20:00 UTC) | Gather exploration and orientation |
| HOUR 2 (21:00 UTC) | Opening plenary: Why lingcomm? (in LARGE HALL) Ben Zimmer Kate Burridge Raquel Freitag moderator: Laura Bailey |
| HOUR 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Podcasting 101 (in LARGE HALL) Daniel Midgley Helen Zaltzman Megan Figueroa moderator: Lauren Gawne Podcasting 201 (in FISHBOWL) Carrie Gillon Pippa Johnstone Ray Belli moderator: Gretchen McCulloch |
| HOUR 4 (23:00 UTC) | Poster session 1 (in POSTERS) names and titles coming soon |
DAY 2 (beginning Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
| HOUR 1 (20:00 UTC) | Poster session 2 (in POSTERS) names and titles coming soon |
| HOUR 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Events 101 (in LARGE HALL) Emily Gref Liz McCullough Rachel Hendery moderator: Laura Bailey Events 201 (in FISHBOWL) Claire Childs Melissa Baese-Berk Monika Kavalir moderator: Gretchen McCulloch |
| HOUR 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Making lingcomm legible to academia (in BREAKOUT 1) Catherine Anderson Cecile McKee Sadie Ryan moderator: Hannah Gibson Pitching a lingcomm story (in BREAKOUT 2) Elizabeth Landau Erin McKean James Harbeck moderator: Melissa Baese-Berk Memes as lingcomm (in FISHBOWL) Amanda Brennan Luana De Conto Vitor Hochsprung moderator: Emily Gref |
| HOUR 4 (23:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Video 101 (in LARGE HALL) Mike Mena Moti Lieberman Rachel Alatalo moderator: Moti Lieberman Video 201 (in FISHBOWL) Josh R Mark Sundaram Nicole Sweeney moderator: Gretchen McCulloch |
DAY 3 (beginning Wednesday, April 21, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
| HOUR 1 (20:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Writing 101 (in LARGE HALL) Dan McIntyre Marco Neves Mignon Fogarty moderator: Jessi Grieser Writing 201 (in FISHBOWL) Kory Stamper Lane Greene Yuval Pinter moderator: Gretchen McCulloch |
| HOUR 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: A recent history of lingcomm (in LARGE HALL) David Crystal moderator: Arika Okrent Lingcomm with young people (in BREAKOUT 1) Amy Plackowski Jamie Banks Ludovica Pannitto moderator: Laura Wagner Finding your lingcomm angle (in BREAKOUT 2) Conni Covington Jonathon Owen Nina Tunteva moderator: Jen Nycz Digital community around lingcomm (in FISHBOWL) Eleonora Marocchini Johnnatan Nascimento Naomi Truan moderator: Bronwyn Bjorkman |
| HOUR 3 (22:00 UTC) | Funding 101 (in LARGE HALL) Grant Barrett Laura Wagner Martha Tsutsui Billins moderator: Gretchen McCulloch group photo |
| HOUR 4 (23:00 UTC) | Closing plenary: Why we lingcomm (in LARGE HALL) Ake Nicholas Elena Alvarez Mellado Lisa Dücker moderator: Jessi Grieser |
DAY 4: MEETUP DAY (beginning Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
Book a virtual room for an open meetup on an area of interest, continue an informal discussion about a topic you were enjoying during a previous day, or simply get together with one or two new acquaintances for (virtual) coffee. The schedule for Day 4 will be created collaboratively before and during the conference in this shared Google doc. Feel free to propose something!
