LSA Bulletin
March 2005
Bulletin Board
Congratulations
John Baugh (Stanford U) will become director of African and Afro-American Studies at Washington U-St. Louis.
David Lightfoot (Georgetown U) was appointed Assistant Director for the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences Directorate (SBE) at the National Science Foundation.
"Voices of North Carolina"
The DVD "Voices of North Carolina" (prepared by Walt Wolfram and funded by NSF) will be a "featured program" during the fund raising efforts of the North Carolina PBS affiliate in late February and March. Viewers receive a copy of the DVD in exchange for donations at a specified level. "A new form of linguistic dissemination and a new interpretation of linguistic gratuity!"
International Linguistics Olympiad
The 3rd International Linguistics Olympiad will be held 8-12 August 2004 in Leiden, The Netherlands. Teams of up to four members may participate. Team members must be students in a secondary school and younger than 19 years old at the time of the Olympiad. Teams may represent individual cities as well as countries. Competitors will need no special knowledge to solve the problems offered. Each linguistic problem is dedicated to some interesting phenomenon in one or several languages. There will be two contests—one for individuals and one for teams. Contact: m.a.c.de.vaan@let.leidenuniv.nl (Michiel de Vaan).
"Talkin' about Talk"
"Talkin' about Talk", a project of the National Museum of Language, was successfully launched on South Carolina educational radio on 6 January 2005. Wisconsin Public Radio began broadcasting the series in February. A public radio station in Pennsylvania has asked to review the material. Radio stations in other states and the American Forces Radio have expressed interest in the series as well. If the latter opts to broadcast it, the series would have an audience of American military personnel around the world. As part of the school's celebration of the "Year of Languages", in addition to highlighting the mother tongues of students at the school, a Prince George's County, MD, high school with a large minority population, is thinking of playing segments of "Talkin' about Talk" through the school's speaker system.
The first 20 programs will be recorded by the end of March. The audio material will be posted on ACTFL's website. For a demo disk and sample scripts contact: E. M. Rickerson, C of Charleston, 66 George St, Charleston, SC 29414; erickerson@comcast.net.
Summer Institutes
Eurolan 2005, 7th. 25 July – 6 August 2005 at University Babes-Bolyai in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Contact: http://www.cs.ubbcluj.ro/eurolan2005/.
European Summer School in Logic, Language, and Information, 17th (ESSLLI). 8-19 August 2005 at Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. Contact: fairouz@macs.hw.ac.uk.
LSA Linguistic Institute. 27 June – 5 August 2005 at MIT and Harvard University, Cambridge, MA. Contact: http://web.mit.edu/lsa2005/.
Southeast Asian Studies Summer Institute (SEASSI). 13 June – 5 August at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Contact: http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/SEASSI/heritage.
In Memoriam
Hreinn Benediktsson ((Reykjavik, Iceland)
M. Dale Kinkade (U BC)
Jan Kooij (Leiden U)
Kay Williamson (Harcourt, Nigeria)