[Linganth] CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: COMMITTEE FOR LANGUAGE AND SOCIAL JUSTICE DUE NOV 15

[French, Brigittine]

Dear Society of Linguistic Anthropology Colleagues:
We are writing to seek volunteers to serve as Core Members on the SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice (LSJ).
The LSJ was created in 2009 out of the Task Group on Language and Social Justice and is a standing committee within SLA. There are currently four core committee members, two of whom will be leaving the committee at the end of the 2016 calendar year and will need to be replaced.
 The LSJ works to increase awareness--both within the AAA and among the general public--of the ways  language is implicated in social discrimination and, where appropriate, to respond to specific instances of language-related discrimination and injustice. To these ends, the LSJ seeks to collect and disseminate knowledge concerning language and social justice; to identify problems and issues in which linguistic anthropologists can intervene; to organize, lead, and facilitate such interventions; and to advise the AAA Executive Board and other AAA bodies on how the AAA as a whole should respond to issues concerning language and social justice.

LSJ Core Members serve for two (calendar) year s, and their responsibilities are--
1. organize annual LSJ meeting at AAA
2. attend SLA executive board meeting at AAA
3. present about LSJ initiatives at SLA business meeting at AAA
4. collaboratively decide upon priorities for each year
5. communicate regularly with LSJ members via the google group re: initiatives, projects, media pieces
6. collaboratively create media pieces (with other core members and/or members) on relevant issues
7. interact with CfHR president and executive board members, SLA president and executive board members
interact with AAA executive director, staff (Jeff Martin, public affairs), staff liaison
8. work with SLA publicity representatives (e.g., Facebook, SLA website, LingAnth listserv) to keep materials updated & get the word out about initiatives
9. work with other AAA entities (e.g., Committee on Ethics) on relevant topics
10. add members to the LSJ google group as requested

If you are interested in serving as a LSJ core committee member, please contact the SLA Nominations Committee Members Brigittine French at frenchb at grinnell.edu  or Jillian Cavanaugh at  jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu by November 15, 2016.

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