- The Executive Committee of the LSA will be holding its Spring meeting on 9-10 May, 2008, in Washington, DC. For further information, contact Katha Kissman.
- Nominations for the Leonard Bloomfield Book Award are due 1 June, 2008.
- Nominations for the LSA's "Linguistics, Language and the Public" Award will be accepted until 1 June, 2008.
Delegates and Liaisons - 2008
NOTE: The LSA needs a new liaison representative to the Unicode Consortium. The Unicode Consortium maintains the Unicode Standard, the international character encoding standard, as well as specifications for software internationalization and localization. Representatives are invited to attend the quarterly meetings, which typically take place in the San Francisco Bay Area and run five days in length. Meeting attendance is not required for the liaison, who can also participate by reading online documents and taking part in discussion on the members-only email list. The liaison is asked to write a short report to LSA on the outcome of the meeting.
Anyone with an interest in Unicode and writing systems is encouraged to volunteer for this role, including students. This also is an opportunity for linguists to meet with implementers in industry and to voice the concerns of linguists and minority language users. For details or questions on the position, contact the current liaison, Deborah Anderson, at dwanders@berkeley.edu. If you are interested, please send a note stating your interest and qualifications to membership@lsadc.org no later than 15 April, 2008. Candidates from the San Francisco Bay area are especially encouraged to apply. The liaison may request an actual expense reimbursement of up to $500 per year. The new liaison will be asked to assume the role as soon as he or she is confirmed by the LSA Executive Committee, and will serve through December 31, 2009, with possible renewal.
The LSA maintains delegates and liaisons to a variety of other organizations. We encourage LSA members to explore the links below, and join other organizations to provide representation of linguistics in those organizations. LSA members are especially encouraged to join the Linguistics and Language Sciences Section (Section Z) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). AAAS is important to linguists because our presence in that organization provides a venue for presenting our field to the broader science community. The existence of a section of AAAS devoted to Linguistics and Language Sciences is largely due to an LSA-based initiative some years ago, and we have an investment in maintaining a membership base of linguists. Section Z is one of the smallest sections in the AAAS, but one of the most active (per capita), and it is in the interest of all of our members to participate in this organization.
I. Umbrella Organizations
American Association for the Advancement of Science
(Section H: Anthropology) William Poser, University of Pennsylvania (2008)
(Section J: Psychology) Karen Emmorey, University of Chicago (2008)
(Section V: Neuroscience) Mabel Rice, University of Kansas (2008)
(Section Z: Linguistics and the Language Sciences) Stephen Anderson, Yale University (2008)American Council of Learned Societies
Mark Aronoff, University at Stony Brook (2009)Consortium of Social Science Associations
Dennis Preston, Michigan State University (2008)Permanent International Committee of Linguists
Frederick J. Newmeyer, University of Washington (2008)II. Sister Organizations
American Speech-Language-Hearing Association
Carolyn Temple Adger, Center for Applied Linguistics (2008)Association for Computational Linguistics
Emily Bender, University of Washington (2009)American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages
Robert Hoberman, University at Stony Brook (2008)III. Other Organizations
Council for Preservation of Anthropological Records
Victor Golla, Humboldt State University (2008)Unicode
Deborah Anderson, University of California, Berkeley (2008)
