NWAV 50

10/14/2022

THE GRAD STUDENT SOCIAL IS AT 8:30PM! NOT 8PM!

10/13/2022

Be sure to check out Cambridge University’s Book Exhibit at the conference! Located in the Glen Ellen Room!

10/13/2022

Check out a physical copy of the program here!

10/10/2022

With the conference approaching, we'd like to encourage everyone to register as soon as possible.

We do not anticipate having very many in-person tickets available to individuals who wish to register on-site. If you are planning on attending the conference in person, please make sure that you register online, before Wednesday!

10/07/2022

NWAV50 is approaching very rapidly! We want to take this moment to send our thanks to Cambridge University Press for their sponsorship of two Student Travel Grant Awards! Please be sure to check out their Book Exhibit at the Conference next week!

09/15/2022

Also reminder, early-bird registration ends in less than a week, on September 21st!

Registration is now open at this Eventbrite link. Your Oxford Abstracts registration will be linked to the email you provide when paying for registration through Eventbrite. You will receive a confirmation from Oxford Abstracts at this email address in 24-48 hours (please check your spam folder if y...

09/15/2022

Check our FAQ's page here if you have any questions!!

09/15/2022

Reminder, the conference rate for hotel rooms expires at 11:59 pm on September 26, so be sure to make reservations by then.

NWAV50 will be held at the beautiful Signia by Hilton in Downtown San Jose. The hotel is a short walk to San Jose’s restaurant scene, and just across from the Tech Interactive museum. We have reserved a block of rooms at the conference rate of $269/night. Please make reservations at this link to u...

09/08/2022

NWAV50 Student Travel Awards

We are pleased to offer a competitive award to help cover some of the NWAV50 travel costs for graduate students in sociolinguistics who are members of underrepresented minorities. To be considered for an award, students must be nominated by a faculty member or instructor.

Faculty or instructors at any institution may send a letter nominating a graduate student by the deadline to [email protected], with "Travel Award Nomination" in the subject line. The letter should not exceed 250 words. No other application material should be forwarded. The deadline for nomination letters is Friday, September 23, 2022.

Award Details:
- Mentor match: Award recipients will be paired with an established researcher attending NWAV50 as a mentor. Recipients will have an opportunity to discuss professional goals and opportunities with that mentor.
- Registration award: The cost of conference registration (at the early registration student rate of US$ 65) will be covered for all recipients who attend, either in person or remotely.
- Travel award: Recipients who travel to Stanford will receive a travel stipend (US$ 500 at last award cycle, but may vary based on number of applicants and funds available) to help cover some of the incurred travel/lodging expenses.

Goal: The goal of these travel grants is to encourage attendance by graduate students from backgrounds that are underrepresented at NWAV (e.g., first-generation university or graduate students, low-income students, African American, Latinx, Indigenous students, etc.). Letter writers should include a brief justification regarding how the nominee's background relates to this goal. "Underrepresented" should be interpreted relative to local and personal contexts. It is up to the letter writer to make the case. Letters should also address how attending NWAV50 will benefit the student academically.

Eligibility: Students are eligible for the award:
if they are graduate students at the time of NWAV50
if they are enrolled in either a linguistics program or a related program (e.g., English, Sociology, Anthropology, Africana Studies, Psychology, Computer Science, or a language program with a concentration or research program in sociolinguistics)
regardless of whether or not they are presenting at NWAV50

Further details: The letter writer and the nominee do not need to be from the same institution. The letter writer does not need to be attending NWAV50, in a tenured or tenure-track position, or at a North American institution.


Recipients will be notified in early October. Award recipients must register for the conference and any workshops they wish to attend.

If you have questions, please contact the NWAV50 Student Travel Award Committee at [email protected] or message us on Facebook.

09/01/2022

Registration for NWAV is Now Live!
1. These Early-bird registration prices end on September 21st.
2. Requests for ASL interpretation should be made by September 21st, so we have an idea of how many interpreters we will need!
3. Registration will not be available on Wednesday, October 12. After this period, you'll need to register onsite/in person at an increased cost.
4. Your registration includes a subscription to Language Variation and Change (LVC) journal for 2023 (digital access only). An additional fee can be paid for print copies.
5. You can access the program using the email address linked to your Oxford Abstracts account. If you do not have an Oxford Abstract account yet, please create one using the same email address with which you're registering for the conference.

New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV) conference

08/17/2022

NWAV50 will be held at the beautiful Signia by Hilton in Downtown San Jose. The hotel is a short walk to San Jose’s restaurant scene, and just across from the Tech Interactive museum. We have reserved a block of rooms at the conference rate of $269/night. Please make reservations at the link below to use the discount code. https://www.hilton.com/en/book/reservation/rooms/?ctyhocn=SJCSMHH&arrivalDate=2022-10-12&departureDate=2022-10-16&groupCode=NWAV50&room1NumAdults=1&cid=OM%2CWW%2CHILTONLINK%2CEN%2CDirectLink

If you're looking for someone to share a room with, we hope this spreadsheet will help facilitate your search.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1ZkAIA_yg6gKp2fvr7RWQZP4D10eR3YeNynrKbtQtcp0/edit =0

Because the conference will feature three full days of programming, beginning with a morning plenary by William Labov and Gillian Sankoff on Thursday, October 13 and continuing through an evening reception on Saturday, October 15, we suggest that you arrive on Wednesday, October 12 and leave on Sunday, October 16, if possible.

Sheet1 If you are interested in sharing a hotel room and consent to others contacting you about sharing a room, please provide your information on this spreadsheet. Once you have finalized your living arrangements, be sure to check column E to indicate that you are no longer looking for a roomma...

05/31/2022

The NWAV50 organizing committee seeks self-nominations, particularly from people from backgrounds historically underrepresented at NWAV, to review abstracts for the conference. Reviewers must be at the dissertation writing stage or beyond, and must have given at least one conference talk or published at least one article for which they were the first author. If you have not reviewed for NWAV in the past, and would like to volunteer, please fill out our self-nomination form by June 17, 2022. Please note that depending on the topics and number of submissions, not all reviewers on our list will be contacted.

Please answer the questions below to nominate yourself as an abstract reviewer for NWAV50.