Call for papers: LASSO 54th Annual Meeting, 2025
Conference Theme: Borderless Language
Conference Dates: October 9-11, 2025
Conference Location: 成人头条, 成人头条, Kansas
Meeting Description
LASSO, the Linguistic Association of the Southwest, invites abstract submission for papers and group panels for its 54th Annual Meeting to be held at 成人头条 State University, 成人头条, Kansas on October 9-11, 2025. LASSO is a linguistics association in the United States whose purpose is the advancement of the scientific study of language. While many of our members study the languages of the southwestern United States, LASSO has an international focus; it draws its membership and includes linguistic scholarship from any language and any region in the world.
For this year鈥檚 conference, we welcome papers in all areas of linguistic inquiry, including but not limited to language attitudes and ideologies, linguistic landscape, indigenous, heritage, and world language education, language policy and planning, language variation and change, phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, etc. The theme for this year is Borderless Language. As such, we especially encourage papers addressing language and social justice, critical pedagogies, language in healthcare, language maintenance and revitalization, and sociolinguistics. Submissions by junior faculty and graduate students are especially welcome. Graduate students who present their work at the conference are eligible for the Helmut Esau Prize, which includes a $400 award.
Submission Guidelines
Abstracts may be written in English or Spanish. Presentations should be delivered in the same language as the abstract. Only one abstract as single author and a second as co-author will be accepted from any one individual. Presentation time for papers will be 20 minutes plus 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals for complete panels with multiple speakers are also welcome but must fit within a 90-minute time frame.
Abstracts should be between 250 to 500 words, single-spaced, 12-point Times New Roman font. Use of special fonts should be kept to a minimum. In general, omit the bibliography. Abstracts must include the title of the paper and clearly show the importance of the study, previous research, the gap in existing literature, the objective of the study, and indicate key aspects of data and methodology.
To preserve anonymity during the review process, authors should not include their names, academic affiliation, email address or any other identifier or reveal their identity anywhere in the abstract. This information will be completed in a separate form prior to submission in Easy Abs. Include the title of the paper, area of research, author names, academic affiliations, and email addresses in the form within the abstract submission system. Submissions should be in pdf format.
Submissions by graduate students are especially welcome. By presenting at LASSO, graduate students are eligible for the Helmut Esau Prize, which includes a $400 award. Participation in LASSO is a privilege of membership. This means that an individual must be a current member in order to present a paper and be listed in the conference program. You may fill out a membership form at the same time as you register for the conference at .
Submissions open: February 3 to May 30, 2025
Deadline for single-paper submissions is May 30, 2025
Deadline for panel submissions is May 30, 2025
Abstract review period: July 1 to July 18, 2025
Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2025
Conference Registration
Welcome to the LASSO 2025 Conference Registration Page! We are delighted to have you join us. Please note that to attend the conference, you must be a LASSO member. You can pay the required LASSO membership fee by clicking this link. Below are the details for registration and our special social events.
Presentation of papers at the annual LASSO conference is a privilege of membership, and only those who are current LASSO members may have their work presented. Members in good standing may vote and hold office.