[HPSG-L] Call for bids to host the 29th International HPSG conference

[Rui Chaves]

pps - I mean, there currently is no venue for *2022*. So, please
consider making a bid for next year!

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 2:08 PM Rui Chaves <rchaves at buffalo.edu> wrote:
>
> ps - I neglected to point out that the LSA Summer institute has been
> pushed back to 2023
> (https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/umass-amherst-selected-host-2023-linguistic-institute),
> and with it, our collocated conference.
> This means that there currently is no venue for 2021. So, please
> consider making a bid for next year!
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2021 at 1:00 PM Chaves, Rui <rchaves at buffalo.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Dear all,
> > The Standing Committee invites members of the HPSG community to
> > organize and host the next conference. We are open for bids from
> > anywhere in the world, and can assist hosts with know-how gathered
> > from the two past virtual meetings.
> >
> > Although we are very hopeful that by next year the pandemic will be
> > mostly resolved, we cannot know for sure. For this reason, we invite
> > bids for a virtual conference, once again. It would be good if next
> > year's conference could pivot to a hybrid conference mode, pandemic
> > permitting, although this is by no means a requirement imposed on
> > bids. In such a hybrid setting, there would be an in-person audience
> > and presenters (streamed to the web), as well as a remote audience and
> > presenters (who can present and ask questions, like in a virtual
> > conference). To reiterate, there is no expectation that bids for the
> > 29th conference would have to be hybrid. The reasons to maintain an
> > online component are many (e.g. inability to travel due to issues
> > pertaining to health, funding, family, politics, etc.), as you know.
> > If you have any questions, please contact me or any member of the
> > Standing Committee.
> >
> > Best wishes,
> > Rui Chaves
> > Chair of the Standing Committee of the International Conference on HPSG
> > https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/
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>
>
> --
> Rui P. Chaves (he/him)
> Associate Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
> Director of Graduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics Program
> https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/



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Rui P. Chaves (he/him)
Associate Professor of Linguistics, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Director of Graduate Studies for the Computational Linguistics Program
https://www.acsu.buffalo.edu/~rchaves/