# Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) ## THE SLAVIC COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS ASSOCIATION (SCLA) ### **History and Aims** The Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) is an affiliate of the International Cognitive Linguistics Association ([ICLA](http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/)) and pursues a fourfold mission: - To promote Cognitive Linguistics, and particularly to encourage graduate students and junior faculty to pursue research on the Slavic languages in the framework of Cognitive Linguistics; - To encourage and support training in research methodologies, including experimental methods, data collection, corpus methods, and statistical analysis; - To encourage practical application of Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in the development of pedagogical materials for the teaching of Slavic languages; - To encourage interdisciplinary applications of Cognitive Linguistics, particularly in the area of literary analysis. Laura A. Janda (then of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and now at the University of Tromsø) and Stephen M. Dickey (then of the University of Virginia and now at the University of Kansas) founded the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association (SCLA) in Spring 2000 and was approved as an [affiliate](http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/affiliates.shtml) of the [International Cognitive Linguistics Association](http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org/) in 2001. The inaugural conference for the group was held at UNC-Chapel Hill in Autumn 2000. The organization has continued annual meetings in most years since then, either independently or in collaboration with other organizations for Cognitive Linguistics or Slavic Linguistics. ### **SCLA Constitution** At the SCLC-2009 business meeting, we resolved to form a Constitutional Committee consisting of the President and Vice-President in order to revise the SCLA constitution to simplify the document and bring it into line with the practices of the organization since its founding in 2000. We formulated a new draft and circulated that in advance of the SCLC-2010 business meeting, at which we adopted the current constitution. An amendment was added after the 2012 SCLC at the University of Zagreb and ratified at the 2014 SCLC at Harvard University by a vote of the members. The current constitution is available [here (SCLA Constitution 2014](/file_url/720)). ### **Joining SCLA** Membership in SCLA is free. If you would like to join, please send your contact information to [Steven Clancy](mailto:///sclancy@fas.harvard.edu). We request the following information for our membership database: Last name: First name: Middle name, initial, or patronymic (if used): Preferred email address: Country: University or other affiliation: Rank/Title: Research Languages: ### **History of Annual Meetings of the Slavic Cognitive Linguistics Association** Sort2000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), November 2000 2001 University of Virginia (Charleston, Virginia), October 2001 2002 Joint conference with FiCLA at the University of Turku (Turku, Finland), September 2002 2003 (no conference) 2004 Joint conference with Perspectives on Slavistics at University of Leuven (Leuven, Belgium), September 2004 2005 University of Kansas (Lawrence, Kansas), October 2005 2006 Sessions at the Society for Slavic Linguistics 1st Annual Conference, Indiana University (Bloomington Indiana), September 2006 [2007](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2007.html) SCLC-2007 at the University of Chicago (Chicago, Illinois) ([more information](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2007.html)), October 12-14, 2007 [2008](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2008.html) SCLC-2008 as a joint conference with the Estonian Cognitive Linguistics Association (ECLA) at the University of Tartu (Tartu, Estonia) ([more information](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2008.html)), May 29-June 1, 2008 [2009](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2009.html) SCLC-2009 at Charles University (Prague, Czech Republic) ([more information](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2009.html)), October 15-17, 2009. [Book of Abstracts](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/abstracts/SCLC-2009BookofAbstracts.pdf). [Program](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/programs/SCLC-2009Program.pdf). [Business Meeting Minutes](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/businessmeetings/SCLC-2009BusinessMeeting.pdf). [Corpus Workshop Presentation](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/miscellany/SCLC-2009CorpusWorkshop.pdf). [2010](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2010.html) SCLC-2010 at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island) ([more information](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/sclc2010.html)), October 9-11, 2010. [Book of Abstracts](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/abstracts/SCLC-2010BookofAbstracts.pdf). Conference Program. [Business Meeting Minutes](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/businessmeetings/SCLC-2010BusinessMeeting.pdf). [2011](http://www.american.edu/cas/sclc) SCLC-2011 at American University (Washington, D.C.) ([Official Conference Site](http://www.american.edu/cas/sclc)), October 14-16, 2011 [Call For Papers and Conference Website](http://www.american.edu/cas/sclc). [Abstracts](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/abstracts/SCLC-2011abstracts.pdf). [Conference Program](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/abstracts/SCLC-2011program.pdf). [Participant List](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/abstracts/SCLC-2011participants.pdf). [Business Meeting Minutes](http://languages.uchicago.edu/scla/businessmeetings/SCLC-2011BusinessMeeting.pdf). [2012](http://www.hfiloloskod.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=36) SCLC-2012 at University of Zagreb (Zagreb, Croatia), September 27-29, 2012 ([Official Conference Site](http://www.hfiloloskod.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=36)) [Call For Papers and Conference Website](http://www.hfiloloskod.hr/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=20&Itemid=36). Abstracts. Conference Program. Participant List. Business Meeting Minutes. \[SCLA conferences to be held roughly every 18 months from this point onward.\] 2014 SCLC-2014 at Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts), February 15-17, 2014 [Call for Papers and Conference Website](/scla/2014-conference). Abstracts. Conference Program. Participant List. Business Meeting Minutes. 2015 SCLC-2015 at the Universities of Sheffield and Oxford (Sheffield/Oxford, UK), December 9-13, 2015 [Call for Papers and Conference Website](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/russian/research/sclc2015). [Workshops](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/russian/research/sclc2015/workshops) (10-11 December). Abstracts. [Keynote Abstracts](https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/russian/research/sclc2015/keynotes). Conference Program. Participant List. Business Meeting Minutes. 2017 SCLC-2017 at The Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (St. Petersburg, Russia), October 11-14, 2017 [Call for Papers and Conference Website](http://iling.spb.ru/confs/sclc2017/call.html). [List of astracts accepted](https://iling.spb.ru/confs/sclc2017/abstracts.html). [Abstracts](https://iling.spb.ru/confs/sclc2017/abstracts.pdf). Keynote Abstracts. [Conference Program](https://iling.spb.ru/confs/sclc2017/programme.html). Participant List. Business Meeting Minutes. 2019 SCLC-2019 at Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts), October 12-14, 2019 [Call for Papers and Conference Website](/scla/2019-conference). Abstracts. Conference Program. Participant List. Business Meeting Minutes. 2020-2021 SCLC-2020/21 via Zoom in Tromsø, Norway, June 3-6, 2021. [Conference Website](https://site.uit.no/clear/sclc-2020/). [Book of Abstracts](https://site.uit.no/clear/files/2021/05/SCLC-20202021-Book-of-abstracts-Final.pdf). [Conference Schedule](https://site.uit.no/clear/files/2021/06/SCLC-2020_2021-Conference-program-updated-June-2.pdf). [Conference YouTube Channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCHhN3Yk8_N12ygxnzz74dPQ). 2023 SCLC-2023 at Harvard University (Cambridge/Boston, Massachusetts) June 1-3, 2023. [Conference Website](https://site.uit.no/clear/sclc-2023/). [Program](/file_url/1008). [Abstracts](/file_url/1004). 2024 SCLC-2024 at Jagiellonian University (Kraków, Poland), November 13-15, 2024. [Conference Website](https://sclc2024.confer.uj.edu.pl). [Program](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zr3zm59EnqvQysX86x8mTLAC-ro6dRsL). [Book of Abstracts](https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Xx0sFVIbYEFUUk3-xd4GYz6Pet5i_jAk). ### **SCLA Officers** The current SCLA officers are: - **Mateusz-Milan Stanojevic** (University of Zagreb), President since June 2023 - **Stephen Dickey** (University of Kansas), Vice-President/President-Elect since June 2023 SCLA officers consist of a President and Vice-President/President-Elect who serve for indefinite terms of at least three years. The Vice-President/President-Elect succeeds the President and a new Vice-President/President-Elect is elected. The previous association President continues to serve as Past-President in an advisory role. The most recent SCLA elections were held at the SCLC-2023 conference. The next elections will be held sometime in or after 2026. Sort **First Term2000-2004** **Second Term2004-2007** **Third Term2007-2010** **Fourth Term2010-2014** **Fifth Term2014-2017** **Sixth Term2017-2023** **SeventhTerm** **2023-present** **President** [Laura A. Janda](http://hum.uit.no/lajanda/) [Stephen M. Dickey](http://slavic.ku.edu/stephen-m-dickey) [Steven J. Clancy](https://scholar.harvard.edu/stevenclancy) [Tore Nesset](http://www.hum.uit.no/a/nesset/) [Dagmar Divjak](http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/staff/profiles/divjakd.html) [Mirjam Fried](http://ling.ff.cuni.cz/en/linguistics/fried/) [Mateusz-Milan Stanojević](http://anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr/?p=155) **Vice-President** [Stephen M. Dickey](http://slavic.ku.edu/stephen-m-dickey) [Alina Israeli](http://www.american.edu/cas/faculty/aisrael.cfm) [Tore Nesset](http://www.hum.uit.no/a/nesset/) [Dagmar Divjak](http://www.shef.ac.uk/russian/staff/profiles/divjakd.html) [Mirjam Fried](http://ling.ff.cuni.cz/en/linguistics/fried/) [Mateusz-Milan Stanojević](http://anglist.ffzg.unizg.hr/?p=155) [Stephen M. Dickey](http://slavic.ku.edu/stephen-m-dickey) --- Attachments- [ picture\_as\_pdf SCLC\_program\_4\_Nov.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/2024-11/SCLC_program_4_Nov.pdf) - [ picture\_as\_pdf SCLC-2024\_book\_of\_abstracts\_NEW.pdf ](/sites/g/files/omnuum2186/files/2024-11/SCLC-2024_book_of_abstracts_NEW.pdf) ---