Back to Work!

It has been a busy half year since DAAC was greenlit by Kobe International University. In that time, we have juggled work duties (class load, research, overseas work) while slowly getting things together. It has been a rough path, but we are starting to make some headway.

Here are some updates on the DAAC conference preparations.

1 Three professors in Japan and three in Europe have kindly offered to vet proposals. Being an inaugural conference, the small group is more wieldy than a full committee, and will also offer suggestions to submitters on how to improve their work.

2 Over 100 Discourse Analysis researchers in Japan were contacted through Researchmap, the Japanese government-linked researcher social network. Response has been overwhelmingly positive, and several have promised to apply to present.

One problem that has come to light is that the Japan Association of Sociolinguistic Sciences is holding their yearly conference at the same time, so researchers face a tough decision of which to go through. That said, the head of JAIS has been supportive of DAAC, and this has allowed us to make a necessary connection with their organization, which is central in the field here.

3 The CfP has been disseminated worldwide by Taiwanese, Iranian, Chinese, and EU researchers. We expect the next two months to be a flurry of proposals, and

If there are any comments, questions, or suggestions, please feel free to contact the organizer Theodore Bonnah.

bana@kobe-kiu.ac.jp

See you in Kobe!