Texas Language Education Research Conference

Hi TexLER Community! We are excited to share with you all some exciting news about our upcoming conference this weekend, Nov. 9-10, 2024!
The final program will go live starting tomorrow. All presenters should have received an email regarding any changes that need to be made. Please make any final changes by tonight!

As for our incredible keynote speakers, we are excited for both Dr. Octavio Quintanilla and féi hernandez to start and end our first day of the conference, Sat. Nov. 9. Sunday, féi hernandez will begin our 2nd day with her amazing short film and audience discussion! Sunday's event will be open & free to community members!

Come and join and let's decolonize every space we encounter!

Registration is still open for anyone interested in joining us this Saturday and Sunday!

Winners will be announced tomorrow!!! Here's your chance to submit your name and info to win a free registration ticket for the upcoming incredible TexLER 2024 International Hybrid Conference: Voices Unbound: Decolonizing futures in language and literacy practices! See you there!

Attention TexLER community! We are holding a raffle for free registration passes to our upcoming TexLER conference, Nov. 9-10, for anyone interested in attending! Scan the QR code below and submit your name and info for a chance to win! Raffle winners will be announced on Oct. 18!

🚨 Final Reminder for TexLER 2024! 🚨

⏳ Don’t miss out on Voices Unbound: Decolonizing Futures in Language and Literacy Practices! 📅 November 9-10, 2024 | Hybrid International Conference 🌍

📝 Important Dates:

Proposal Submissions & Conference Registration Deadline: October 14
🎟️ Enter to win a FREE Registration Pass! Winners will be announced by October 18!
🏆 Apply for the TexLER 2024 Research Awards: TexLER Resilience and Perseverance Award & Dr. Miguel Alvarez Research Award.
🔗 Submit your proposals and register today!

https://www.texler.org/

We are thrilled by the response so far for the upcoming 25th Annual Texas Language Education Research (TexLER) Conference! To give everyone a bit more time, we have extended the deadline for proposal submissions to October 14, 2024—one week from today.

This year’s theme, "Voices Unbound: Decolonizing Futures in Language and Literacy Practices," promises to bring together groundbreaking scholarship, and we can’t wait to see the amazing proposals you submit.

Conference Details:
Dates: November 9-10, 2024
Location: University of Texas at San Antonio
Theme: Voices Unbound: Decolonizing Futures in Language and Literacy Practices

New Deadlines:
Proposal Submission Deadline: October 14, 2024
Registration Deadline: October 14, 2024 (Please register soon!)

TexLER Website: https://www.texler.org/

Deadline for the 2024 TexLER Conference is upcoming! We have received some incredible proposals for this year's conference but still want to hear from you! Deadline to submit proposals for presentations/ workshops/ panels, and registration for our conference is October 7. We look forward to reading about your scholarship and community work and can't wait to include it in this year's conference! See you there!

¡Se acerca la fecha límite para la Conferencia TexLER 2024! Hemos recibido algunas propuestas increíbles para la conferencia de este año...¡pero todavía queremos saber de usted! La fecha límite para enviar propuestas de presentaciones/ talleres/ paneles y la inscripción para nuestra conferencia es el 7 de octubre. ¡Esperamos leer sobre su trabajo academico y trabajo comunitario y estamos felices de incluirlo en la conferencia de este año! ¡Nos vemos allí!

Hi TexLER Family,

We are incredibly excited to announce our two amazing keynote speakers for this year’s conference: Unbound Voices: Decolonizing Futures in Language and Literacy Practices!

Let’s welcome féi Hernandez and Dr. Octavio Quintanilla as this year’s honored keynote speakers!

féi hernandez (b.1993, Chihuahua, Mexico) is a trans, formerly undocumented immigrant. She is a 2023 Lambda Literary fellow and 2022 Tin House Scholar. féi is the author of HOOD CRIATURA (Sundress Publications, 2020) and the forthcoming (UN)DOCU MENTE (Noemi Press, 2025). féi’s poetry/ prose is published in Los Angeles Review of Books, Poetry, Academy of American Poets, Hayden Ferry’s Review, TransLash Media and forthcoming, Split This Rock and anthology Here to Stay in Fall 2024. féi is descendent of the Pi’ma, Rarámuri, and Cora peoples.
For more of her projects and services visit: feihernandez.com

fei’s keynote address: You’re Here to Rattle The World!: awakening the ancestors within or where are you from from?

Octavio Quintanilla is the author of the poetry collections, If I Go Missing (Slough Press, 2014), The Book of Wounded Sparrows (Texas Review Press, 2024), which has been longlisted for the American Book Award, and Las Horas Imposibles / The Impossible Hours, winner of the 2024 Ambroggio Prize given by the Academy of American Poets, forthcoming from the University of Arizona Press. Octavio is the founder and director of the literature & arts festival, VersoFrontera, publisher of Alabrava Press, and former Poet Laureate of San Antonio, TX. His Frontextos (visual poems) have been published and exhibited widely. He teaches Literature and Creative Writing at Our Lady of the Lake University.
Website: octavioquintanilla.com
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Octavio’s keynote address: The Wounded “Eye” in Poesía: Writing The Lyric “I” at the Intersection of Word and Image

Proposal submissions and registration is still open until October 7, 2024. Educators, teachers, scholars, community organizers, artists, students, authors, poets, and critical thinkers, come join our amazing TexLER 2024 research conference! If you have any questions, please send an email to: [email protected]. Website: texler.org

TexLER planning is in full swing! Deadline for abstract submission is coming up in 3 weeks on Oct. 7! We are receiving some incredible abstract proposals from so many amazing students, scholars, and community members! Let's continue this life-changing work at this year's conference. We are looking forward to seeing everyone's spectacular work in the upcoming weeks! Look out for flyers showcasing our phenomenal keynote speakers in the upcoming days!

🎉📣✨🌍🌎🌏 Welcome to TexLER 2024 at the University of Texas at San Antonio! We are excited to announce some updates for this year’s upcoming conference! 🎉📣✨🌍🌎🌏

Our conference theme this year is: "Voices Unbound: Decolonizing Futures in Language and Literacy Practices".

This year’s conference will be a completely hybrid international conference. This means that all participants, whether in-person or virtual, will be able to participate throughout the conference sessions and be able to showcase their work to a virtual and in-person audience.

Conference Location: University of Texas at San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas, 78249, USA
Conference Dates: November 9-10, 2024
Abstract Submissions Now Open! Submit today!
Abstract Submission Deadline: October 1, 2024
Notification of Reviews by: October 7, 2024 (Earlier submissions will be notified sooner)

https://www.texler.org/

This year’s conference, TexLER 2024, is dedicated to challenging colonial legacies in language and literacy education. We aim to promote anti-colonial practices, integrate Indigenous languages, and center minoritized languages in educational contexts. Our conference will explore translanguaging for multilingual learners, highlight the impact of AI on language education, and introduce innovative tools for inclusive and accessible language learning. Recognizing artistic and cultural expressions, we will foster community-based methodologies, confront linguistic violence, and advocate for inclusive language policies within education and community projects. Presentation spaces will be provided for youth and community members to also share their perspectives at this year’s conference. This includes community leaders, advocates, high school students, undergrad & graduate students, teachers & professors of all levels, artists, poets, etc. Our goal is to promote humanized research practices, fostering a global dialogue on decolonizing, humanizing, and innovating language and literacy education, and building a coalition committed to linguistic justice and empowerment.