Over the past two decades, the biannual CLIC-GSA conference has helped to support the interdisciplinary study of language, interaction, and culture here at UCLA. The conference provides a forum for undergraduate and graduate students in Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Communication, Sociology, and other disciplines to present their research, foster relationships with faculty and students from other universities, and meet the well-known scholars who are acting as our invited plenary speakers.

The CLIC-GSA Conference is an entirely student run and implemented event, hosted at UCLA every other year. Each time, graduate student members of CLIC-GSA are involved with all aspects of the program’s design, planning, and implementation of the conference.

CLIC GSA is the only student organization at UCLA that focuses specifically on the interdisciplinary examination of the interface of language, interaction, and culture. The conference offers a space for students of Anthropology, Asian Languages and Cultures, Communication, Sociology, and other related disciplines to have an opportunity to share their research and work collaboratively.

CLIC-GSA and the Center for Language, Interaction and Culture (CLIC) at UCLA have been hosting interdisciplinary conferences on language, interaction, and culture at UCLA since 1995. Several years after the CLIC conference had become an annual event, a collaborative partnership between CLIC-GSA at UCLA and the Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) graduate students at UCSB was initiated, and in 1999 UCSB hosted the CLIC/LISO conference for the first time. Since then, the two campuses of the University of California have traded off holding the conference each year. Below you’ll find the programs and schedules of many of our previous gatherings. You can know more about the LISO organization here.