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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Canberra ICHL
a vote will be taken on proposals to fill these vacancies. I have now heard from the ISHL Nominating Committee, who have made the following nominations:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">i) FUTURE PRESIDENT/CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2023)</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2025)</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">iii) MEMBERS OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:10pt">Éric Mathieu (University of Ottawa, Ottawa ON, Canada), who was due to become the senior member
of the Nominating Committee and take up the chair, has announced his resignation from the Committee.</span><span style="font-size:10pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">A replacement is therefore needed, to serve for the remainder of his term (until 2021) and to act as Chair.</span><span style="font-size:10pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">The Nominating Committee proposes</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">iv) SECRETARY</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">President and Director of the 2021 Conference:</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Future President and Conference Director (2023):</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Bethwyn Evans (ANU, Canberra)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">John Charles Smith (Oxford)</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">Jóhanna Barðdal (Gent), until 2021</span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><b><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">NOMINATING COMMITTEE</span></b><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:13.0pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US"><span style="font-size:10pt">According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make nominations. Should
anyone wish to do so, could they please let both the Secretary (johncharles.smith@stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (abergs@uos.de) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 15 June.</span><span style="font-size:10pt">
</span><span style="font-size:10pt">Nominations will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee.
</span><span style="font-size:10pt"> </span><span style="font-size:10pt">The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society.</span></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size:12pt; font-family:Cambria"><span style="font-size:10pt; font-family:Tahoma" lang="EN-US">All good wishes,</span></p>
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<span style="font-size:10pt">Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">College phone: +44 1865 271700; College Fax: +44 1865 271768</span></div>
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