<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">Note change: this will be an <i>online conference.</i><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr"><br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Paul Sidwell</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:icaal.ps@gmail.com" target="_blank">icaal.ps@gmail.com</a>></span><br></div><br><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Dear Colleague</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">This is a general notice about the upcoming <i>International
Conference on Austroasiatic Linguistics</i> which will held over 29-31
October this year.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Due to the dominant preference for online participation
among presenters, the format of the meeting has been changed to <b>entirely
online</b>.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please go to the website at <a href="http://icaal.net" target="_blank">icaal.net</a> for details. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The final selection of abstracts has concluded and a
draft program will be posted in early September.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Only presenters are required to pay registration,
for anyone wishing to follow talks online, open links will be posted on the
website before the meeting commences.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">The meeting will also launch the memorial volume “<i>Austroasiatic
Linguistics in honour of Michel Ferlus (1935-2024)</i>”. Hard copies will be
available for purchase, details will be forthcoming at <a href="http://icaal.net" target="_blank">icaal.net</a>.</span></p>

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to this email.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Paul Sidwell</span></p>

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