[Linganth] Call for Language and Social Justice Core Committee Members

[Anthony K Webster]

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).

This is not a general call for new members, but a call to be a Core Member. To
be a Core Member; *you must have prior experience with LSJ initiatives and
events.*

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 2017 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 that 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) years, 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 SLA president and executive board members; the Members'
Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC); and the AAA executive
director and staff
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 Tony Webster (awebster at utexas.edu), Jillian Cavanaugh (
jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu), or Christopher Ball (
christopher.g.ball.44 at nd.edu) by *MON December 11, 2017*.

The SLA Executive Board appoints Core Members of the LSJ committee after
the SLA nominations committee has forwarded the names of those interested.

We hope you will share this announcement, urge colleagues to put their
names forward, and consider participating yourself on this important
committee.

We also want to thank Hilary Parsons Dick and Susan Blum for their service
on the LSJ during calendar years 2016 and 2017.

We look forward to hearing from you,

SLA Nominations Committee

Tony Webster (awebster at utexas.edu )

Jillian Cavanaugh (jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu)

Chris Ball (christopher.g.ball.44 at nd.edu)

-- 

Anthony K. Webster
Professor
Department of Anthropology
Department of Linguistics
Affiliate Faculty Native American and Indigenous Studies Program
http://www.uapress.arizona.edu/Books/bid2515.htm
https://jsa.revues.org/14602.

we should be careful

Of each other, we should be kind
While there is still time.--Philip Larkin
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