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Dear colleagues,

I am very pleased to pass on the set of FAQs prepared by the LAGB’s sub-committee for linguistics and racial justice.  They are intended to be a starting point for anyone thinking about these issues. The committee would be very appreciative of constructive feedback from members on the draft document (follow the link) via this form, with a deadline of 31 May.

With best wishes

George

Further to yesterday's email, some members have been experiencing difficulties accessing the voting page, in particular those using the Chrome browser.

If the link lagb.org.uk/vote2018 is not working for you, you can navigate to the voting page (once you're logged in) via Membership>Online Membership Votes>LAGB2018 Invited Speaker Vote and take the poll from there.

An apology is also due to Anna Szabolcsi for misspelling her surname, and thanks to those of you who pointed this out.

The LAGB Student Committee are seeking to nominate two postgraduate students to join their ranks in the capacity of Secretary and Communications Officer.

Forming part of the LAGB Committee, the Student Committee aims to represent the student members of the LAGB, and to provide a conduit through which issues and concerns on behalf of students can be raised. The Student Committee is also tasked with a number of key objectives: to disseminate news and opportunities to the wider student community, and to assess funding applications for postgraduate conferences. Peer-reviewing forms an important part of a scholar's continuous professional development, and the experience offered by contributing to the Student Committee would be extremely beneficial to candidates looking to progress into an academic role after the PhD.

About the roles:

In addition to supporting the Student Committee in achieving their key objectives as outlined above, candidates appointed as Secretary and Communications Officer will be given specific responsibilities.

Secretary:

• Takes minutes at LAGB Student Committee meetings;
• Collects items for and disseminates agenda before meetings;
• Liaises with Student Committee to organise meeting times/dates.
  

Communications Officer:

• Primarily responsible for LAGB Student Committee email account and ensuring queries are responded to;
• Ensures a strong LAGB Facebook and Twitter presence;
• Responsible for improvement and updates for website (in tandem with LAGB main committee webmaster).

How to apply:
Postgraduate students (at any level) are encouraged to submit a 500 word statement of interest, indicating how they might contribute to the Student Committee. In addition, we asks that applicants provide the Student Committee with contact details of their primary supervisor, so that statements of support can be sought that can confirm the applicant's status and strengths. Applications should be sent to the Chair of the Student Committee no later than 31st August 2015. General inquiries in relation to both roles can be submitted to the committee’s collective email address: lagbsc@gmail.com.

http://lagb.org.uk/student-committee

The 2015 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will be held at University College London from Tuesday 15 to Friday 18 September 2015.

The deadline for abstracts for papers and themed sessions is Wednesday 1 April 2015.

Details of the venue, plenary speakers and special events, and information on how to submit an abstract or convene a themed session are available from the conference website:

Meeting website: http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2015

This workshop, organised by Adam Albright (MIT) and Andrew Nevins (UCL), will be held in conjunction with Adam Albright's Linguistics Association Lecture at 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain. 

The full programe for the workshop and a call for posters for a Workshop Poster Session is available from the workshop website: 

http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2014/biases 

The Workshop will be held at The Queen's College, University of Oxford on Friday 5 September, as part of LAGB 2014, which runs from Monday 1 September to Friday 5 September 2014. 

The deadline for abstracts for papers, themed sessions and workshop poster is Friday 11 April 2014.

Details on how to submit an abstract are available from the conference website:

http://www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2014/call

The 2014 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain will be held at The Queen's
College, University of Oxford from Monday 1 to Friday 5 September.

The LAGB intends to submit a response to the current consultation co-ordinated by HEFCE on behalf of the UK higher education funding bodies on Open Access and submissions to the REF post-2014.

The LAGB Education Committee think it's time to revisit the possibility of launching an A-level exam in Linguistics. 

Their session at the Linguistics Association of Great Britain Annual Meeting 2013 will be devoted to this subject.

Since their last discussion of this issue in 2005, a lot has happened - A-levels are under review, the exam in English Language has continued to thrive, foreign languages have continued to decline, new A-levels have been launched in comparable subjects (Creative Writing and Anthropology) and, most important of all, the UK Linguistics Olympiad has revealed an enormous untapped enthusiasm in our schools for analysis of language structure, with over 6,000 entries in 2013. This olympiad joins the established competitions in STEM subjects such as Maths and Physics, but, uniquely, our subject is not yet part of the school curriculum. Is the world ready for an A-level in linguistics? If so, what steps do we need to take to introduce it? And what would it consist of? These are some of the questions that face us.

Planned speakers include Willem Hollmann (Lancaster). The chair will be Graeme Trousdale (Edinburgh). Further details will be available on the LAGB Education Committee website: www.lagb.org.uk/education 

As part of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, a Workshop on Comparative Morphology and Morphological Theory will take place on 31 August 2013, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The workshop is organised by Matthew Baerman and Daniel Harbour.

Invited speakers:

Jonathon Bobaljik (UConn) - 'Morphological universals and the hidden structure of words'


Download the call for papers for the Workshop on Comparative Morphology and Morphological Theory: www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/morphology/call

Workshop website: www.lagb.org.uk/lagb2013/morphology

As part of the 2013 Annual Meeting of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain, a full-day Workshop on Primate Grammar (and Beyond) will take place on 28 August 2013, at the School of Oriental and African Studies, London. The workshop is organised by Ad Neeleman.