COLLOQUIA

Colloquia sessions invite organizers to develop a particular research question, theme, or direction, and to organize several papers and their presenters and researchers to present papers that all respond to the theme. Organizers then ensure that, prior to the conference, and prior to the publication of the papers for the conference colloquia, all presenters are in dialogue with one another, and draw on each other’s work, which they may discuss during their presentations, and in each other’s subsequent publications. 

• 1.5 hours with 3-5 contributors
• Abstracts for the colloquium must be uploaded in the submissions box. The abstract must contain both the main description of the colloquium, as well as a summarized description of each individual paper to be presented within the colloquium. This information must include the names and affiliations of each author and presenter, the title of each respective session/presentation, as well as any other information construed as relevant.
• Each author must also confirm their role: Presenting Author, Non-Presenting Author, Chair, or Discussant.
• Colloquia provide an opportunity for several presenters within the boundaries of a theme or topic to present together in a supportive environment. Colloquium organizers can tailor time lengths to each presentation, but must allow time to include opening and closing remarks, presentations, and audience interaction.
• The colloquium chair is responsible for organizing the group and for submitting the colloquium in the Call for Papers platform on behalf of all contributors.
• All colloquium submissions must be uploaded to the submission site using the Colloquium Submission Form Template provided.
• Panel organizers here will be responsible for panel chairs. Time keepers will be provided by The GLOCAL 2027, if needed.
   

POSTER PRESENTATIONS

Posters are a vital element in the research and publishing process. The poster is a mediating channel between collecting and researching and organizing a publication ready text. Through the poster, researchers and authors subject their work to scrutiny and receive vital feedback from other scholars and audiences. thus affording vital opportunities for the poster authors / researchers to mobilize their work and to develop knowledge and methodological strengths.

There is an architectural science to posters, yet the styles, designs, and generally architectures can be highly diverse, where category of research and poster methodical frameworks govern the poster designs and representation of text and image.

A strong poster is always in development and never a final publication. Authors would do well to understand that posters can be republished for future conferences and other events, where, each draft can draw on previous work and can constitute an improvement on former drafts, akin to a recipe where one ingredient is altered with each new attempt.

When creating posters, authors should consider the visual appeal as well as simplicity. Readers are usually eager to move from poster to poster and to thus stop at that poster which engages the reader with simplicity and a straightforward system of research and methodical framework. (Over)Complexity in a poster always has the potential to deter readers.

• Posters will be displayed at designated times throughout The GLOCAL 2027.
• Posters are for one-on-one discussion of a symposium-related theme or topic.
• A block of time will be allocated for presenters to discuss their posters.
• Posters will be displayed in the designated areas (main halls).
• Presenters will be assigned a space to display their poster(s).
• Posters should be A0: 841 x 1189 mm width x height (landscape or portrait).
• A guiding but not necessary template for the poster can be found at the link https://glocal.soas.ac.uk/poster-template/
• Submissions should contain a summary of key elements for the presentation.
• Posters can include relevant visuals or academically descriptive objects, where color is optimal.
• Posters must be clear, concise, and simple, with large fonts, with the title of the project, and author information (name and affiliation).

METHODOLOGY / ANALYSIS WORKSHOPS

As part of the efforts by the GLOCAL, the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, to strenghthen scholarship on Linguistic Social and Cultural Anthropology, the GLOCAL conferences include workshops on language documentation, analysis, method and methodology, and the Linguistic Anthropologies of online generative technologies, as well as other pertinent fields.

The GLOCAL conference 2027, at the University of Cambridge and online as a hybrid event, will include several workshops on Method and Methodology in progressive aspects of Linguistics Anthropology and Sociolinguistics. The workshops will invite key scholars globally as experts in these fields, to conduct the sessions and to interact with all participants. The workshops will be available at no cost to all participants at the GLOCAL 2027 conference, and will admit these scholars into the community of GLOCAL scholars that extends to and across all regions globally.

TALKS

Each annual GLOCAL conference hosts Keynotes, Plenery, Publisher, Cultural, and other specialty talks throughout the event. These talks are given by prominent scholars globally, and hence from priminent institutions and from heritage-thick regions.

The talks are usually ninety minutes to two hours, and sit outside of parallel sessions. At these times, all attention is given to the talks, after which the conference parallel sessions continue.

ANTHRO EXCURSIONS

The GLOCAL participants are invited to attend an anthropological excursion on the final day of the conference. As with every GLOCAL conference, the excursion shall span a full day, and with various stops. The excursion will travel to a region and community of thick Linguistic Anthropological relevance, and will not dissapoint. As such, the excursion will include a community within the vicinity of Cambridgeshire, in England, and several communities affiliated with that community.

More details will be provided in due course.

CULTURAL PERFORMANCES

The GLOCAL 2027 invites proposals for cultural performances throughout the conference. These performances are typically approximately 30 minutes in length, and may connect to the conference theme or to a tenet significant to the philsophy of the GLOCAL conferences and its global networks.

Events are performed by cultural groups or organizations that intend to cast the performances with some educational intention. While participants at the conference are able to see the performances on location, these will also be chanelled through media online, and which global virtual participants will be able to view.

ANTHRO EXHIBITIONS

Throughout GLOCAL conferences, various bodies exhibit cultural and anthropological items. The exhibitors include academic institutions, government and non government organizations, and other cultural and ethnic groups that wish to align their collections and performances with the theme of the conference.

The exhibitions are also frequently multimodal and hence appear through multimedia, displayed at the conference throughout the span of the conference. All participants have access to the exhibitions during the conference, either physically for thos participants who attend in person, or online, where the exhbitions will be displayed online in various permutations.

PHYSICAL AND VIRTUAL DISPLAYS

Academic institutions, publishers, and other bodies are invited to set up displays at the GLOCAL 2027, either physically at Cambridge University, or online, on GLOCAL Media.

The physical displays will remain visible during the conference, and will also appear in media taken during the conference and then at a later time displayed on GLOCAL portals. These may be banners, buntings, TV media, stalls, and so forth.

Online displays will appear prior to, during, and after the conference, and will have a greater global reach. The online media packages include one-page spaces, banners on the website, inclusion in email correspondance, and newsletter blocks.

PROCEEDINGS PUBLICATIONS

As with all GLOCAL conferences, the GLOCAL 2027 proceedings book will be fully WoS (ISI) / SCOPUS / AHCI / CPCI Indexed. The papers admitted to the GLOCAL 2027 proceedings book must traverse the necessary and highly stringent review process. These papers will also be repeatedly edited at multiple levels to ensure that the published papers achieve high impact.

The GLOCAL 2027 proceedings book, as fully SCOPUS and WoS / ISI indexed, will be published soon after the conference, where, the authors will be asked to submit full manuscripts during or immediately after the conference, at which time, the processing, editing, and reviewing of the papers shall begin.

SPECIAL ISSUES

Journal publications and special journal issues are planned for papers that are accepted and that meet publiction criteria. Here, the GLOCAL set of six journals caters for manuscripts submitted and presented at the GLOCAL conferences, and manuscripts that are submitted otherwise. All GLOCAL conference papers are indexed as SCOPUS and WoS / ISI, and hence any papers published as such will be indexed through SCOPUS and Clarivate.

Similarly, the GLOCAL has arranged for papers to be published as special issues in other high impact journals, and as such, all papers submitted to the GLOCAL, and that meet acceptance and publication criteria, will benefit in multiple ways.

The GLOCAL 2027 conference publication system will traverse the necessary double blind and stringent review processes, as an assurance that all papers published are of the highest quality, as statements and groundbreaking work in Linguistic SocioCultural Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society.