Hello Brock,
I am new to Inkshed and am considering sending in my student membership
money. To what will this entail me? I take it that after a long hiatus there
will most certainly be positions available. How many members are you at?
Where are they located? Anything else you can tell me? I've been through the
site and used to read the publication and I like the toned-down academic
nature of what I glean.
John
On Tue, Jan 4, 2011 at 4:29 PM, Brock MacDonald <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> As Russ mentioned in his message earlier today regarding the CASLL
> listserve, in the not-too-distant future we'll need to make some important
> decisions regarding the future form of the association and the Inkshed
> conference. Last year, we held a one-day Inkshed meeting as a special
> supplement to the CASDW meeting at Congress, and it may well be, as Russ
> said, that something similar will be organized this year; however, in order
> to plan that properly, and then to be in a position to make those important
> decisions, we need to reconstitute the association itself.
>
> Last year's Inkshed meeting, for the benefit of those who didn't attend,
> was a modest effort to return Inkshed to something like its original form as
> a "working conference:" there were no conventional papers or presentations;
> instead the day was spent in general discussion and in collective review of
> work-in-progress brought by various attendees. It was a very successful
> event, and I think many of us would agree that there is great value in
> continuing to have a conference of this kind, an alternative to the ordinary
> or conventional form of academic get-together.
>
> The problem is, at present there is no active CASLL executive and in a
> sense no real CASLL membership: no one has paid membership dues for several
> years. (Patricia Patchet-Golubev, the last properly elected Treasurer, has
> resigned the position and turned the administration of CASLL's remaining
> funds over to me, which I suppose makes me Acting Treasurer for the time
> being.) To determine the future of the association, we need a membership
> drive, hence this message.
>
> If you would like to have a say (and more importantly a vote!) in
> determining the future of CASLL, please send $40 membership dues for the
> current year ($20 for grad students) to me at the address below. Make your
> check out to CASLL, or in full, the Canadian Association for the Study of
> Language and Learning. Paid-up members will not need to pay to attend this
> year's Inkshed meeting.
>
> Roger Graves has suggested that we set February 15th as a kind of target
> date for this membership drive; at that point, we will initiate an online
> discussion among members re organizing this year's meeting.
>
> Calling all Inkshedders!
>
> Brock
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