<DIV>NAD might be a good bet. I'll check the nad.org site.</DIV>
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<DIV>Charles</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Stuart Thiessen <sw@PASSITONSERVICES.ORG></I></B> wrote:</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE class=replbq style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">NAD will be in New Orleans in 2006. I have the dates at my office, but <BR>I am in ND right now, so I don't have those dates. Maybe it is on the <BR>NAD website right now. (www.nad.org)<BR><BR>Stuart<BR><BR>On Jul 13, 2005, at 19:32, Valerie Sutton wrote:<BR><BR>> SignWriting List<BR>> July 13, 2005<BR>><BR>> Hello Everyone, and Charles!<BR>> Certainly a First American or Brazilian SignWriting Symposium would be <BR>> great!<BR>><BR>> This first European one took at least 6 months to organize. There are <BR>> around 7 people on the Organizing Committee. And the reason I believe <BR>> it will be a big success, is that it takes place the very next day <BR>> after a big conference on Deaf Education in the Netherlands. So people <BR>> who are attending the ICED conference in the Netherlands can easily <BR>> get to Brussels the next day, whic!
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close by, to attend the <BR>> Symposium...so it is piggybacking on another conference. And the <BR>> Brussels school was kind enough to donate the location in a <BR>> classroom...so all these factors have made it possible.<BR>><BR>> So if other SignWriting users wanted to create such a Symposium then <BR>> they need to contact each other, find a bigger conference, like <BR>> perhaps the TISLR 9 in Brazil?...and schedule a Symposium after the <BR>> TISLR...December 10 and 11, 2006...maybe some group in Brazil would <BR>> want to donate a space for around 30 participants? Just a thought...<BR>><BR>> Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9 TISLR 9<BR>> Florianópolis, SC, BRAZIL - December 06 to 09, 2006<BR>> Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina<BR>><BR>> Or do you know of an NAD conference in the US? The American Symposium <BR>> could piggyback on the NAD conference...<BR>><BR>> Val ;-)<BR>><BR>>
-------------------------------<BR>><BR>><BR>> On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Charles Butler wrote:<BR>><BR>> Inquiry. If I were to put together something for next February or <BR>> March in Washington DC, would people be interested?<BR>> <BR>> This would be for all interested, from educators to lay people just <BR>> learning the system. I'm hoping for linguists to do solid ASL <BR>> linguistics classes as well as ordinary Deaf and hearing folk sharing <BR>> there ongoing research.<BR>> <BR>> Any interest in putting something together here?<BR>> <BR>> Charles Butler<BR>><BR>> Valerie Sutton <SUTTON@SIGNWRITING.ORG>wrote:<BR>>> SignWriting List<BR>>> July 13, 2005<BR>>><BR>>> Dear SW List!<BR>>> I spent all day yesterday, printing literature about SignWriting, to<BR>>> be given to the participants of the SignWriting Symposium, and I sent<BR>>> a big white !
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filled with literature to Brussels FedEx yesterday!<BR>>><BR>>> Next week there will be SignWriting presentations at two conferences<BR>>> in Europe...one in Maastricht, Netherlands, and one in Brussels...And<BR>>> on July 1st there was a presentation at a conference in Albuquerque,<BR>>> New Mexico...and in June there were presentations at a conference in<BR>>> France...so it has been a busy summer. I plan to create web postings<BR>>> about each conference with photos etc, in August...<BR>>><BR>>> I will post information about the two upcoming conferences in the<BR>>> next message....I want to wish the very best to those who are<BR>>> presenting...We will be thinking of you!<BR>>> Val ;-)<BR>>><BR>>><BR></BLOCKQUOTE>