The Language, Literacy and Culture (LLC) Doctoral Program at UMBC is hosting an interdisciplinary conference to be held April 11-12, 2008.

The conference is designed to foster cross-disciplinary dialogue about issues of language, community and culture in the contemporary city and its surroundings, and to promote dialogue about these issues as they relate specifically to Baltimore. The featured speaker will be Barbara Johnstone, professor of rhetoric and linguistics at Carnegie Mellon University.

Interested participants should submit a 250-word abstract by Aug. 31 to LLCBALTIMORE@gmail.com. For more information, visit www.umbc.edu/llc or contact Christine Mallinson (mallinson@umbc.edu) or Denis Provencher (provench@umbc.edu).