<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">SignWriting List<DIV>July 13, 2005</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Hello Everyone, and Charles!</DIV><DIV>Certainly a First American or Brazilian SignWriting Symposium would be great!</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>This first European one took at least 6 months to organize. There are around 7 people on the Organizing Committee. And the reason I believe it will be a big success, is that it takes place the very next day after a big conference on Deaf Education in the Netherlands. So people who are attending the ICED conference in the Netherlands can easily get to Brussels the next day, which is close by, to attend the Symposium...so it is piggybacking on another conference. And the Brussels school was kind enough to donate the location in a classroom...so all these factors have made it possible.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>So if other SignWriting users wanted to create such a Symposium then they need to contact each other, find a bigger conference, like perhaps the TISLR 9 in Brazil?...and schedule a Symposium after the TISLR...December 10 and 11, 2006...maybe some group in Brazil would want to donate a space for around 30 participants? Just a thought...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research 9 TISLR 9</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Florianópolis, SC, BRAZIL - December 06 to 09, 2006</FONT></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Times New Roman">Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Or do you know of an NAD conference in the US? The American Symposium could piggyback on the NAD conference...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Val ;-)</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>-------------------------------</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jul 13, 2005, at 9:41 AM, Charles Butler wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><DIV>Inquiry. If I were to put together something for next February or March in Washington DC, would people be interested?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>This would be for all interested, from educators to lay people just learning the system. I'm hoping for linguists to do solid ASL linguistics classes as well as ordinary Deaf and hearing folk sharing there ongoing research.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Any interest in putting something together here?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Charles Butler<BR><BR><B><I>Valerie Sutton <<A href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</A>></I></B> wrote:</DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE class="replbq" style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">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 box 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></DIV><BR></DIV></BODY></HTML>