Abstracts still open! WAIL, SECOL

Abstracts are still open for two conferences of interest to members:18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL 2015)Abstract deadline: February 15, 2015The Linguistics department at the University of California, Santa Barbara announces its 18th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages (WAIL), which provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical, descriptive, and practical studies of the indigenous languages of the Americas.We are pleased to announce that our keynote speaker for this year will be Patience L. Epps (University of Texas Austin).See the call for papers here.82nd Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Conference on Linguistics (SECOL 2015)Abstract deadline: January 11, 2015The Southeastern Conference on Linguistics invites abstract submissions for papers for the 82nd meeting, which will be held concurrently with Language Variation in the South IV (LAVIS IV) in downtown Raleigh, NC, April 9-11, 2015. Papers in all areas of language and linguistics are welcome, including papers and panels on the teaching of linguistics, but special consideration will be given to proposals related to the conference theme, "The New South."See the call the papers here.