The 2nd ROLE Symposium

The second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium will be held on May 19, 2025. 

Conference Information

We are pleased to announce the second Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Symposium, taking place online on May 19, 2025. 


The Reframing Our Language Experience (ROLE) Collective (http://www.rolecollective.org) was established in 2022 with the intent of bringing together researchers, clinicians, policy makers, and educators to move away from linguistic injustice that has been created by native speaker ideologies.  


Find out more about  the ROLE Collective on our website where you can also view the presentations and resources from the first ROLE Symposium.  


ROLE will be holding our second online symposium on May 19, 2025. The goal of this event is to bring together scholars who are committed to challenging harmful ideologies in linguistics and related fields; those who are committed to advocating for and implementing changes in practice within their fields, academia, and beyond; and those wanting to learn more about these topics. 


The half-day symposium will include three sections (more details to come):


We have booked ASL interpreters, and we will ask about other access needs when registration opens.


Join us in this significant endeavor to reshape the landscape of linguistics and foster a more inclusive and just approach to language study and application.

Invited Presentation

We are happy to confirm that Dr. Anna Lim (Boston University) will be giving the keynote presentation. 


More details to follow!

Short Presentations: Call for Papers

We seek submissions from scholars whose research engages with questions about how we can best characterize heterogenous language experience without resorting to essentialist framings. 


We welcome projects of all types and stages of development. Junior scholars are particularly encouraged to apply. The deadline for abstract submissions is April 14 (anywhere on Earth).


Each presentation will be 5-7 minutes long, and will be pre-recorded and captioned by the presenter. Talks will be posted online by May 14, and presenters will be invited to be part of a panel discussion on May 19th. 


For review, please upload an anonymized PDF of your 300 word abstract, with an additional page for figures and citations.


How to anonymize: Please do not include author names in the body or label of the submission file, and refer to any self-citations in the third person (e.g., “Cheng et al. (2021) suggest [...]” not “In Cheng et al. (2021), we suggested [...]”)


Abstract Submission Form: https://forms.gle/FSzk2BjF2gadhi4T7 


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Program Committee

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This conference is supported by the University of Michigan and the University of Iowa.