<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div><div><div>Dear all,</div><div>Regarding earlier correspondence (see below), the Ethics blog now has a new post by Rena Lederman and Lise Dobrin that asks for comments on specific sections of proposed changes to IRB federal regulations. </div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ethics.americananthro.org/irb-federal-regulations-update">http://ethics.americananthro.org/irb-federal-regulations-update</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>Lederman and Dobrin are soliciting comments from anthropologists to help them prepare an official AAA response to the proposed changes. Linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives are needed!</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Steve Black</div><div><br></div><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Steven P. Black</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological Association</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Department of Anthropology</font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Georgia State University</font></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;"><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">P.O. Box 3998</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Atlanta, GA 30302-3998</font></font></div></span></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div><div>Phone (404) 413-5168</div><div>Fax (404) 413-5159</div></div></div><div><br></div><div><div id="MAC_OUTLOOK_SIGNATURE"></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:12pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> "Woolard, Kathryn"<br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Monday, September 14, 2015 at 8:18 PM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> Steven Black, "Linguistic Anthropology Discussion Group (<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org">LINGANTH@listserv.linguistlist.org</a>)"<br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> Re: [Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes<br></div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Dear Steve -</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks for drawing our attention to this; surely it will be very important. But the document is of course overwhelming, and there's no guidance on it posted on the AAA website ( I assume the 2011 AAA comment can't be taken to correspond to the document
at hand now.) Can you or your committee provide any sense of what sections linguistic anthropologists in particular should look at, or how we might be affected – positively or negatively?</div><div><br></div><div>Thanks and best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Kit</div><div><br></div><div><div><div><div>Kathryn A. Woolard, Professor</div><div>Department of Anthropology, 0532</div><div>UCSD </div><div>9500 Gilman Drive</div><div>La Jolla, CA 92093-0532</div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><br></span></div><div>Tel. (858) 534-4639</div><div>Fax (858) 534-5946<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span></div><div><br></div></div></div></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span>Steven Black <<a href="mailto:stevepblack@gmail.com">stevepblack@gmail.com</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span>Monday, September 14, 2015 8:31 AM<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span>"<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>" <<a href="mailto:LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG">LINGANTH@LISTSERV.LINGUISTLIST.ORG</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span>[Linganth] Comments needed! Proposed IRB changes<br></div><div><br></div><blockquote id="MAC_OUTLOOK_ATTRIBUTION_BLOCKQUOTE" style="BORDER-LEFT: #b5c4df 5 solid; PADDING:0 0 0 5; MARGIN:0 0 0 5;"><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: 'Lucida Sans', sans-serif;"><div>Dear all,</div><div>I am writing as chair of the American Anthropology Association’s Committee on Ethics and the linguistic anthropology representative on the committee to ask all of us to take a look at the most recent Ethics Blog post. The post overviews proposed changes
to national IRB rules/ regulations. This represents an opportunity for the AAA to make an impact on regulations that could make research either much easier or much more difficult for anthropologists. Please read the blog, look at the information, and send
in your comments. Linguistic anthropologists’ perspectives are needed! Here is a link to the blog:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://ethics.aaanet.org/proposed-federal-changes-to-the-common-rule">http://ethics.aaanet.org/proposed-federal-changes-to-the-common-rule</a>/</div><div><br></div><div>Take care,</div><div>Steve Black</div><div><br></div><div><div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Steven P. Black</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Chair of the Committee on Ethics of the American Anthropological Association</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Department of Anthropology</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Georgia State University</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">P.O. Box 3998</font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri">Atlanta, GA 30302-3998</font></font></div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div>Phone (404) 413-5168</div><div>Fax (404) 413-5159</div></div><div style="font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><font class="Apple-style-span" color="rgb(0, 0, 0)"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Calibri"><br></font></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></span></div></div></span></body></html>