This year's conference theme is "Continuing and Restarting", which is the title of a Conversation analysis paper (Local 1992), which studies how speakers deploy prosody to indicate if they are continuing with prior utterances or simply restarting. By borrowing this title, we hope to connect to one major approach to studies of language and social interaction - conversation analysis. This theme also echos the fact that we are "continuing and restarting" the LISO conference that has been paused since 2019, and that students and faculty are "continuing and restarting" their study and research due to Covid as well.

This conference will be held free to all the attendees this year in honor of the revival of the conference after 4 years; however, registration is required by May 5th to be able to attend the conference. 

If you are interested in helping prepare the 26th LISO Conference on May 19-20, fill out this volunteer registration form: https://forms.gle/Gr7X1pf9hnE3UUTJA