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; live captioned) Ben Zimmer Kate Burridge Raquel Freitag moderator: Laura Bailey |
| HOUR 3 (22:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Podcasting 101 (in LARGE HALL; live captioned) 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) 1. Martha Tsutsui Billins, Field Notes Podcast 3. Reed Blaylock, Nimisha Patil, Timothy Greer, and Shrikanth Narayanan, Breaking Down the Beat: The Art and Science of Beatboxing 5. Amy Plackowski, High School Linguistics 7. Ray Belli, Words for Granted 9. Emily Gref, Planet Word 11. Nick Bednar, Laura Wagner, Sudha Arunachalam, and Lindsay Burns, CogSciDIY: Language Science 13. Saunatina Sanchez, Crafting Sound Meaning 15. Ricardo Joseh Lima, A Grammatical Classifier with Didactic Purposes for Brazilian Portuguese 17. Catherine Anderson and Bronwyn Bjorkman, Word to the Whys 19. Conni Covington, Linguistics in Science Fiction and Fantasy 21. Vitor Hochsprung, Science Communication on Instagram 23. Mark Sundaram and Aven McMaster, The Endless Knot Videos and Podcast 25. Ake Nicholas, Supporting Kuki Teachers with YouTube Videos |
DAY 2 (beginning Tuesday, April 20, 2021 at 20:00 UTC)
| HOUR 1 (20:00 UTC) | Poster session 2 (in POSTERS) 2. Nina Tunteva and Viktorija Blazheska, Jazicharnica 4. Sadie Ryan, Accentricity 6. Cecile McKee, ¡Hablemos! And so on … 8. Ludovica Pannitto, Lucia Busso, Claudia Roberta Combei, and Malvina Nissim, An Interactive Workshop on Computational Linguistics 10. Lou-Ann Kleppa, LingPOP Abralin 12. Bernard De Clerck, Erika Darics, and Veronika Koller, Words & Actions 14. Gabrielle Hodge, Contributions to Acadeafic 16. Melissa Baese-Berk, Zoe Haupt, Jonathan Wright, and Kurtis Foster, Activities at Living Lab Day 18. Aleksandra Salamurovic, DiskursWestБalkan 20. Lisa Dücker, [di.tsvi.bl] Ein Blog über Sprache 22. Claire Childs and Sam Hellmuth, An Introduction to Sociolinguistics MOOC 24. Sam Hellmuth and Claire Childs, The York English Language Toolkit |
| HOUR 2 (21:00 UTC) | parallel sessions: Events 101 (in LARGE HALL; live captioned) Emily Gref Liz McCullough 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; live captioned) Catherine Anderson Cecile McKee Sadie Ryan moderator: Hannah Gibson Pitching a lingcomm story (in BREAKOUT 2; live captioned) 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; live captioned) Mike Mena Moti Lieberman Rachel Alatalo moderator: Lauren Gawne 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; live captioned) 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; live captioned) David Crystal moderator: Arika Okrent Lingcomm with young people (in BREAKOUT 1; live captioned) 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; live captioned) 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; live captioned) 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!
