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Dear friends,<br>
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The Internet Service Provider - ISP - (Surfnet, the Netherlands)
which I have been using for several lists, including the CRITICS-L
list, is going to shut down its LISTSERV activities as from
January. <br>
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This also means the end of the CRITICS-L list, at least with this
ISP. Since the list has barely been active, except for the very
useful conference messages of some of my (ex) PhD students, and an
occasional book announcement, I have decided to stop my activity
as list convenor on this occasion. <br>
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However, I can imagine that some of you would like to continue the
list, and if there are proposals, please post to to this list, so
that we can see who can provide a stable infrastructure to
maintain the list for at at least several years. Indeed, there may
be other ways to communicate besides such a traditional list. <br>
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Since I (must) retire from my actual position at Pompeu Fabra
University in May 2013, I have been planning to try to found an
international PhD "school", whether or not associated with one of
the universities here in Barcelona. It is my intention to call
this school CRITICS (Center for Research into Text/Talk,
Information and Communication in Society) - and thus realize part
of the aims of the CRITICS Foundation we founded in the 1990s. If
this plan could be realized (which is not at all sure) then
somehow the CRITICS-L list might be restored again. The aim of the
CRITICS center is to offer brilliant PhD students in critical
discourse studies one year of specialized assistance with their
thesis, with a staff of the best international scholars in the
field who would each teach in the center for one week per year,
thus allowing a very prestigious program. Unfortunately, in the
present dire economic situation in Spain, such a center could only
be realized if it is self-financing and hence be based on (for
Spain) high tuition costs of about 10,000 euros annually. I'll
keep you posted about these plans - even if the CRITICS-L is
discontinued.<br>
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Best wishes<br>
<br>
<br>
Teun<br>
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Teun A. van Dijk<br>
Pompeu Fabra University <br>
Dept. of Translation and Language Sciences<br>
138, Roc Boronat<br>
08018 Barcelona, Spain<br>
E-mail: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:teun@discourses.org">teun@discourses.org</a><br>
Web: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.discourses.org">www.discourses.org</a><br>
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