Important: ISHL Nominations

[John Charles Smith]

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE
INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the 
Business Meeting to be held during the Osaka ICHL a vote will 
be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies.  I have now heard from 
the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following 
nominations:

i)  FUTURE PRESIDENT/CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2015)

Michela Cennamo
(Università degli studi «Federico II», Naples, Italy)

ii)  MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2017)

Alice C. Harris
(University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, USA)

iii)  MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2019)

Alex Bergs
(Universität Osnabrück, Germany).

iv)  SECRETARY

The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith 
(University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of 
the Society.

With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees
will be as follows:

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

President and Director of the 2013 Conference:
Dag Trygve Truslew Haug (Oslo)

Future Conference Director (2015)
Michela Cennamo (Naples)

Former Conference Director:
Ritsuko Kikusawa (Osaka)

Secretary:
John Charles Smith (Oxford)

Other Members:
Alan Dench (Perth), until 2013
Michele Loporcaro (Zürich), until 2015
Alice C. Harris (Amherst), until 2017

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

Chair:
David Willis (Cambridge), until 2013

Other Members:
Bridget Drinka (San Antonio), until 2015
Heidi Quinn (Christchurch), until 2017
Alex Bergs (Osnabrück), until 2019.

According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also 
make nominations.  Should anyone wish to do so, could they please let
both the Secretary (johncharles.smith at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current 
Chair of the Nominating Committee (Malcolm.Ross at anu.edu.au) 
know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 1 July.  
Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written 
consent of the nominee.  The nominee and all of the proposers should 
be members of the Society.

I look forward to seeing you in Osaka.

All good wishes,

John Charles Smith
Secretary, ISHL
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John Charles Smith
Official Fellow and Tutor, St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK
Deputy Director, Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford
tel. +44 1865 271700 (College) / 271748 (direct) / 271768 (fax)
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