Call for Course Proposals – LSA Summer Linguistic Institute 2017

The submission deadline has now passed with a record 64 proposals received. These proposals are currently under review and announcements will be made soon.

The next LSA Summer Linguistic Institute will be held at the University of Kentucky from July 5 – August 1, 2017. We are currently accepting proposals for additional courses to be offered during the Institute.

All Institute courses will last for four weeks, with two 110-minute class periods each week (for a total of eight class sessions). The theme of the Institute is Language across Space and Time, but we are interested in proposals for courses in any area of linguistics (including those unrelated to the theme). We are particularly interested in proposals for clusters of courses that relate to one another, especially when taught by a group of scholars interested in using the Institute to pursue collaborative research projects.

For the instructors of accepted courses, the Institute will cover the costs of travel, housing, and food and will provide a small honorarium. Proposals to co-teach courses are welcome, including proposals that split courses between two instructors. For co-taught courses, expenses will be paid for both instructors but the honorarium will be divided between the instructors.

Proposals should take the following form:

1. A short course description ( < 300 words)
2. A brief explanation of the motivation for the course at this time (< 200 words)
3. An outline of course topics or readings (to give us a sense of how you would fit the topic into a four week course)
4. A brief statement of any synergistic activities related to the course. This might include (among other possibilities): collaborators teaching (or proposing) other courses, relationship of the course to workshops or other events, and so on.

Proposals should avoid overlap with courses already planned for the 2017 Institute.

The deadline for receipt of course proposals was May 10, 2016.