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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Dear Friends and Colleagues,</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Heidelberg 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
<span class="mark8wo72kdr5 ContentPasted0">nominations</span>:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">i) FUTURE PRESIDENT / CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2027)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">(Háskóli Íslands / University of Iceland, Reykjavík, Iceland)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2029)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Sarah Thomason<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">(University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI, USA)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">iii)
<span style="mso-spacerun:yes" class="ContentPasted0"> </span>MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2031)</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">iv) SECRETARY</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">With these
<span class="mark8wo72kdr5 ContentPasted0">nominations</span>, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">President and Director of the 2025 Conference:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Verónica Mariel Orqueda (Santiago de Chile)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Future President and Conference Director (2027):<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:IS;mso-bidi-font-weight:bold" class="ContentPasted0" lang="IS">Þórhallur Eyþórsson (Reykjavík)</span><span style="font-family:Tahoma"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Former Conference Director:</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">John Charles Smith (Oxford)</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Mark Harvey (Newcastle NSW), until 2025<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Joseph Salmons (Madison WI), until 2027<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Sarah Thomason (Ann Arbor MI), until 2029</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">NOMINATING COMMITTEE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney), until 2025</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Eugen Hill (Köln), until 2027<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Elly van Gelderen (Tempe AZ), until 2029<o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">Nathan Hill (Dublin), until 2031.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US" class="ContentPasted0" lang="EN-US">According to the Society's Constitution, individual members may also make
<span class="mark8wo72kdr5 ContentPasted0">nominations</span>. 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 (brigitte.bauer@mpl.nl) know by email
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Nominations</span> will require the signatures of six proposers and the written consent of the nominee. The nominee and all of the proposers should be members of the Society.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Cambria"><o:p class="ContentPasted0"> </o:p></span></p>
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<div><font size="2"><span style="font-size:10pt">John Charles Smith</span><br>
<span style="font-size:10pt">St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK</span><br>
<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></font></div>
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