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<span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2">Dear colleagues,<br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><a href="https://ilcl.hse.ru/en/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> and</span><a href="https://ling.hse.ru/en/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">the School of Linguistics</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> are organizing an International Summer School on Areal Linguistics and Languages of Russia in Moscow (Russia). This will be the second school on Areal linguistics organized by the Laboratory. </span><a href="https://ling.hse.ru/indling2018/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The first school</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> took place two years ago. We arranged a range of courses on various topics, including quantitative and computational approaches to the analysis of linguistic data and surveys of of language families and groups. </span></font></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Applications to participate are welcome from students and scholars of all levels. The application deadline is March 15, 2020. For more details: </span><a href="https://ling.hse.ru/indling/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://ling.hse.ru/indling/</span></a></font></span></p><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:12pt;margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Also note the deadline for postdoctoral research positions at the Linguistic Convergence Laboratory (HSE, Moscow), which is </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:700;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">February 9, 2020</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. You can find information about the position, the requirements and the application form </span><a href="https://iri.hse.ru/linguistics_lab" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="color:rgb(17,85,204);background-color:rgb(255,255,255);font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">here</span></a><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-weight:400;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;text-decoration:none;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">.</span></font></span></p><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2">Best regards,</font></span></div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><span style="font-family:georgia,serif"><font size="2">Nina Dobrushina</font><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