The Program Committee of the LSA is pleased to announce the line-up of organized sessions for the 2020 Annual Meeting, which will take place at the Hilton New Orleans Riverside from January 2-5. Organized sessions will be scheduled, along with accepted paper and poster presentations, in a meeting of Program Committee members during the latter part of August. Abstracts of the sessions and individual presentations will be available in October 2019. The following sessions were approved:

• Workshop on “Accessing English Dialect Syntax: Data, Methods, Theory,” organized by E Jamieson (University of Glasgow) and Jennifer Smith (University of Glasgow).
• Symposium on “Black Becoming for Language and Linguistics Researchers,” organized by Sonja Lanehart (University of Arizona) and Anne Charity Hudley (University of California Santa Barbara) with input from the LSA 2019 Linguistic Institute’s African American Language Symposium and the Committee on Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL).
• Symposium on “Careers for Linguists / Linguists for Careers,” organized by Laurel Sutton (Catchword Branding) and Emily Pace (Expert System USA) with the participation of the Linguistics Beyond Academia Special Interest Group (SIG).
• “Contact, Structure, Change: A Symposium in Honor of Sarah G. Thomason,” organized by Anna M. Babel (The Ohio State University) and Mark A. Sicoli (University of Virginia).
• Workshop on “Formal Approaches to Grammaticalization,” organized by Martín Fuchs (Yale University) and Joshua Phillips (Yale University).
• Themed Poster Session on “Innovations in Linguistic Technologies and Models of Research Collaboration: Fifteen Years of Documenting Endangered Languages through DEL,” organized by Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsvile) and April Laktonen Counceller (Alutiiq Museum) with the participation of the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation (CELP).
• Symposium on “Meeting Teachers Where They Are: Linguistics at School,” organized by Kristin Denham (Western Washington University) with the participation of the Language in the School Curriculum Committee (LiSC).
• Workshop on “Perspectives on Negation: A Cross-Disciplinary Discussion,” organized by Cynthia Lukyanenko (George Mason University) and Frances Blanchette (Penn  State).
• Symposium on “Queer and Trans Digital Modalities,” organized by Tyler Kibbey (University of Kentucky) and Lal Zimman (University of California, Santa Barbara) with the participation of the Special Interest Group on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics, and with input from the LGBTQ+ Advocacy Workshop and Zimman’s course on Language, Gender, and Sexuality held at the LSA’s 2019 Linguistic Institute.
• Symposium on “Reduplication-Phonology Interactions,” organized by Sam Zukoff (Princeton University).
• Symposium on “Teaching Large General Linguistics Classes,” organized by Andrei Antonenko (Stony Brook University) and Lori Repetti (Stony Brook University).
• Symposium on “The Intellectual Merit of Language Documentation Research,” organized by Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsvile) and April Laktonen Counceller (Alutiiq Museum) with the participation of the Committee on Endangered Languages and their Protection (CELP).
• Workshop on “The Responsibilities, and the Benefits, of Language Documentation Research  to Broader Populations,” organized by Kristine Hildebrandt (Southern Illinois University Edwardsvile) and April Laktonen Counceller (Alutiiq Museum) with the participation of the Committees on Linguistics in Higher Education (LiHE) and Ethics.
• Symposium on “Toward an Intersectional Linguistics,” organized by Tyler Kibbey (University of Kentucky), Rusty Barrett (University of Kentucky), Melissa Baese-Berk (University of Oregon), and Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina),  with the participation of the Committees on the Status of Women in Linguistics (COSWL - this committee is now known as the Committee on Gender Equity in Linguistics - COGEL) and Ethnic Diversity in Linguistics (CEDL) and the Special Interest Group (SIG) on LGBTQ+ Issues in Linguistics.