[Linganth] New position call for LSJ Committee

[Anthony K Webster]

See below from the Committee for LSJ. best, akw

Dear everyone,

We are writing to seek volunteers to serve as *Incoming Core Members* on
the SLA Committee for Language and Social Justice (LSJ).

This is not a general call for new members, but a call for a new
position--for two incoming Core Members. To be an incoming Core Member, it
is advantageous to 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. We are looking at add to the group with two
incoming core members who will serve from 2017 to end of 2020.
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 Incoming Core Members will serve for three (calendar) years, and their
responsibilities for the first year are to--*

*1. attend annual LSJ meeting at AAA and SLA spring conference *
*2. participate in the email correspondence for the core committee,
occasionally joining the conference calls*
*3. offer support to ongoing LSJ initiatives, possibly start an initiative
as well*

During the subsequent two years, the responsibilities include:
1. attend annual LSJ meeting at AAA and LSJ meetings at SLA spring conference

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 SLA president and executive board members; the Members'
Programmatic Advisory and Advocacy Committee (MPAAC); and the AAA executive
director and staff
8. work with the LSJ communications assistant and 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 Chris Ball (christopher.g.ball.44 at nd.edu), Jillian Cavanaugh (
Jcavanaugh at brooklyn.cuny.edu), or Anthony Webster (awebster at utexas.edu) by FRI,
February 23, 2018.

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

We also welcome any questions or concerns from interested parties. You may
contact any member of the core committee (Mariam Durrani, Bernard Perley,
Lynnette Arnold, or Judy Pine). Contact information can be found at
http://linguisticanthropology.org/aboutsocialjustice/

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


Best,
Mariam Durrani
(co-chair)
on behalf of LSJ Core Committee
Bernard Perley (co-chair)
Lynnette Arnold
Judy Pine

-- 


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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