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From https://www.iltaonline.com/page/LTRC2019CFP

The International Language Testing Association is delighted to invite you to participate in the 41st annual Language Testing Research Colloquium (LTRC), which will be held in Atlanta, Georgia from March 4 through 7, 2019. This event, taking place 40 years after the original meeting of language testers in a Boston hotel room in 1979, is returning to North America for the first time in four years and to the United States for the first time in seven years.

The organizers have chosen the theme of Language Testing and Social Justice as a focus for the 41st annual Language Testing Research Colloquium. It is a particularly relevant theme for a conference to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, home of Dr. Martin Luther King, Junior, and a major center of the Civil Rights movement in the USA. ILTA also wants to recognize the 20th anniversary of Elana Shohamy’s landmark 1998 article Critical Language Testing and Beyond,[1] in which she challenged language testers to “actively follow the uses and consequences of language tests, and offer assessment models which are more educational, democratic, and ethical in order to minimize misuses.” 

As always, the organizers welcome proposals on the full range of research topics within the field, but for this LTRC they particularly encourage participants to propose papers that investigate the uses and misuses of tests, the consequences of language test use, and innovations in language testing that embody Shohamy’s call for “more democratic models of assessment where the power of tests is transferred from elites and executive authorities and shared with the local levels, test takers, teachers, and students.” 

The proposal deadline is October 1.

View the full call for proposals at https://www.iltaonline.com/page/LTRC2019CFP and submit a proposal at https://www.conftool.pro/ltrc2019/