CLS 61 and ACAL 56: A Tale of Two Conferences

This was the academic year I returned to in-person conferences. After attending the Annual Meeting on Phonology in the fall, I closed out the spring semester with back-to-back conferences in May (one at the end of the last week of classes and the other at the end of finals week–this is why I was grading till the night before grades were due!). Both were conferences I had attended in the past–Chicago Linguistic Society (CLS) and the Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL)–and it was fun t...