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LSA Bulletin
No. 189 December 2005
Bulletin Board
Congratulations
John Nerbonne (U Groningen) was recently inducted into the Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences (KNAW).
Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: Robert Van Valin (U Buffalo) has been awarded a Humboldt Research Award to Outstanding Scholars resident outside Germany.
American Council of Learned Societies: Philippe Schlenker (UCLA) and Maura Velazquez-Castillo (CO SU) were awarded fellowships.
John Simon Guggenheim Foundation: Alexandra Jaffe (CSU-Long Beach) was appointed a fellow to study language, citizenship, and identity in a bilingual Corsican school.
Language in First Nations Culture
13-18 March 2006
The Aboriginal Language Revitalization Program (http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr), offered jointly by the University of Victoria and the En’owkin Centre, is offering a six-day immersion course to explore the profound ways in which aboriginal languages are linked to aboriginal worldview and cultural practices, along with the cultural implications of language loss and recovery. This course is offered in partnership with the Saanich Native Heritage Centre and Cowichan Tribes and will be located in Saanich, just outside Victoria, Vancouver Island, BC. Participants may take the course on a noncredit basis, or earn 1.5 units of academic credit toward the Certificate in Aboriginal Language Revitalization or toward other programs. Further information on this course is available at: http://www.uvcs.uvic.ca/calr/courses.aspx#186.
Humanities Advocacy Days
1-2 March 2006
Washington, DC
Sponsored by the National Humanities Alliance, this event provides a unique opportunity for humanities advocates to communicate to Congress the importance of the humanities in the US and their own districts. Scholars, educators, students, librarians, museum professionals, state humanities councils, and others who work in and support the humanities attend this annual event. Advocacy efforts generally focus on support for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Registration is free. On-line registration forms and program materials are available at: http://www.nhalliance.org/had. Registration deadline is 8 February 2006.
Summer Institutes
International Society for the Empirical Study of Literature and Media. 30 July – 4 August 2006 at Ludwig-Maximilians-University, Munich, Germany. Application deadline: 31 March 2006. Contact: w_vp@yahoo.com.
South Asia Summer Language Institute (SASLI). 19 June – 11 August
2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Languages offered: Bengali,
Gujarati, Hindi, Malayalam, Marathi, Nepali, Sanskrit, Telugu, Tibetan,
Tamil, and Urdu. See: http://www.wisc.edu/sasli.
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI). 19 June – 11 August
2006 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Heritage language and culture
classes in Filipino, Khmer, Lao, Hmong, and Vietnamese for students of these
ethnic backgrounds who grew up in North America but can speak/understand
the language of their Asian culture. . See: http://www.seassi.wisc.edu/heritage/index.html.
Also classes at beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels for those languages
plus Thai, Indonesian, and Burmese. See http://www.seassi.wisc.edu.
In Memoriam
Margaret Langdon (UC-San Diego)
Lucia Lobato (Brasilia, Brazil)
Donald S. Marshall (Alexandria, VA)
Erica Reiner (U Chicago)
Norman P. Sacks (Pasadena, CA)
Timothy Shopen (Australian National U)
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