Heidi Byrnes (Georgetown U) received the Award
for Distinguished Service in the Profession from the Association of Departments
of Foreign Languages.
Connie Dickinson (U OR) received a research grant from the Endangered Languages
Fund.
Naomi Nagy (U NH) received a research grant from the Endangered Languages Fund.
John Rickford (Stanford U) received the Anthropology in Media Award from the American Anthropological Association for his efforts to inform the general public about the cultural, historical, and linguistic background of African-American vernacular English.
Dean Pauline R. Yu (UC-Los Angles) will become the sixth president of the American Council of Learned Societies in the summer of 2003. A member of the ACLS Board of Directors since 1998, Dr. Yu is currently Dean of Humanities in the College of Letters and Science and professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at UC-Los Angeles. Before becoming Dean at UC-Los Angeles in 1994, she taught at UC-Irvine, where she was professor and founding chair of the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. Between 1986 and 1989, she was professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia U, having joined that faculty as an associate professor in 1985. She earlier held appointments as assistant professor (1976-80) and associate professor (1980-85) in Humanities and East Asian Studies at U MN. She was also a visiting assistant professor at Stanford U in 1978. In addition to serving on the ACLS Board of Directors, Dr. Yu is a Trustee of the National Humanities Center, a member of the Advisory Board of the Council for International Exchange of Scholars, and a member of the Task Force on the Humanities of the Association of American Universities.
Representatives of the Center for Applied Linguistics and the National Foreign Language Center have begun the groundwork to establish the Alliance for the Advancement of Heritage Languages. The website is up (www.cal.org/heritage), and an email discussion list has been started. For more information or to subscribe to the email list, contact Scott McGinnis at smcginnis@nflc.org.
The American Indian Graduate Studies Bibliography will be updated over the next two years. The edition will incorporate theses and dissertations accepted at 492 graduate institutions in the United States, Canada, and Mexico and is expected to have 12,000 titles. Led by Charles Townley, co-founder of the American Indian Library Association, the project will receive administrative support from NM SU, College of Education, Department of Educational Administration and Development and financial support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Effective immediately, Kluwer will publish all titles in the linguistics program (series: SNLT, SLAP, SITP, TLTB, and ARGU) simultaneously in paperback. The publisher hopes that paperback editions will make titles more widely available, accessible, and affordable to everyone.
The committee met in Atlanta to discuss the status and future of the LSA video project. Because the goal of the project has been to create an accessible resource for educators and for the public in general, there was some discussion of how the videos might be put into a context that would help achieve this goal more effectively. To that end, members agreed to begin work on a virtual museum model--a virtual museum of language and linguistics. The videos that are part of the Video Archive Project will fit into this model, which will also permit both a wider range of topics (and connections among them) and a helpful setting for the LSA videos as well as for contributions of graphics, animations, and text treating the topics. Sean Hendricks and Sharon Klein (sharon.klein@csun.edu) (co-chairs of the committee) are developing a prototype for such a website, are delineating potential topic areas, and are seeking ways to secure external funding for the project and ways to consult and collaborate with organizations also interested in such a venture. The committee will offer a workshop ("Linguistic Video Production") at the 2003 Linguistic Institute.
The Linguistic Society deeply appreciates the generosity of the nine publishers who donated the proceeds from the sale of their display copies to the LSA Linguistic Institute Fellowship Fund. Annual Meeting Joint Book exhibit participants were: University of British Columbia Press, Duke University Press, Harvard University Press, International Specialized Book Services, Johns Hopkins University Press, Max Niemeyer Verlag, University of Nebraska Press, and Ohio State University Press.
Classics Summer Institute. Mid-June to early August 2003 at the University of Georgia, Athens, GA. Contact: gradinq@arches.uga.edu or http://www.classics.uga.edu/summer_institute/.
European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 15th (ESSLLI). 18-29 August at the University of Vienna. Deadline for early registration: 15 June 2003. Contact: http://www.logic.at/esslli03/.
LSA Linguistic Institute. 30 June – 8 August 2003 at Michigan State University. Contact: http://lsa2003.lin.msu.edu.
North American Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 2nd (NASSLLI-2003). 17-21 June 2003 at Indiana University. Contact: http://www.indiana.edu/~nasslli/.
Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences. 30 June - 11 July 2003 at the University of Quebec at Montreal. Theme: Categorization. Contact: cogsci@uqam.ca; http://www.unites.uqam.ca/sccog/liens/program.html.
Kostas Kazazis (U Chicago)