LISO — co-hosted by UCLA’s CLIC graduate student group — promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the study of language, interaction, and culture. This year’s theme is ‘Encounter and Interface’, and the conference will be held on May 19th and 20th, with Patricia Baquedano-López (Education, UC Berkeley), Erica Cartmill (Anthropology, UCLA), and Tanya Stivers (Sociology, UCLA) as plenary speakers. More information is available at http://liso.ucsblinguist.org.