The Cognitive Linguistics Association of North America (CLANA) is a working group of cognitive linguists from Canada, Mexico, and the United States had been meeting periodically during 2023 with the goal of establishing a professional organization and biennial conference for cognitive linguistics in North America. Conference organizers, Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba) & Daz Saunders (University of Manitoba and formerly, Université du Québec à Montréal) were able to secure space to host the inaugural conference at the Université du Québec à Montréal in June 2024. At this point, the working group collectively decided that a formal organization needed to be formed prior to the conference to assist with conference planning. CLANA was officially established on January 11, 2024.
More information about CLANA is available on the CLANA website.