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
*********************************************************
W. Brock MacDonald
Director, Academic Writing Centre
Woodsworth College, University of Toronto
119 St. George Street
Toronto, ON M5S-1A9
Phone: (416) 978-0246
Fax: (416) 978-6111
*********************************************************
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
To leave the list, send a SIGNOFF CASLL-L command to
[log in to unmask] or, if you experience difficulties,
write to Russ Hunt at [log in to unmask]
To view or search the list archives, go to
https://listserv.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/wa?A0=CASLL-L
-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
