Brock:
I will join or rejoin on my return to Canada next week.
Michael J. Ryan
On 4 January 2011 16:29, 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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Michael J. Ryan, Professor
Capilano University, China Partnership Program
Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
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