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<b>IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS</b> </div>
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Dear Friends and Colleagues, </div>
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Several positions in the Society will fall vacant this year, and at the Business Meeting to be held during the Santiago 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: </div>
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<b>i) FUTURE PRESIDENT / CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2029)</b> </div>
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Eugenio Ramón Luján Martínez</div>
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(Universidad Complutense de Madrid)</div>
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<b>ii) MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2031)</b> </div>
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Martin Joachim Kümmel</div>
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(Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena)</div>
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<b> </b> </div>
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<b>iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2033)</b> </div>
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Barbara Meisterernst</div>
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(National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu)</div>
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<b>iv) SECRETARY</b> </div>
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As members will be aware, I announced some time ago that I would be stepping down as Secretary at the Santiago meeting. The Nominating Committee proposes Chiara Gianollo (Universitŕ di Bologna) as the new Secretary of the Society. </div>
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With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows: </div>
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<b>EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE</b> </div>
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President and Director of the 2027 Conference: </div>
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Ţórhallur Eyţórsson (Reykjavík) </div>
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Future President and Conference Director (2029): </div>
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Eugenio Ramón Luján Martínez (Madrid)</div>
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Former Conference Director: </div>
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Verónica Mariel Orqueda (Santiago de Chile)</div>
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Secretary: </div>
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Chiara Gianollo (Bologna)</div>
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Other Members: </div>
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Joseph Salmons (Madison WI), until 2027 </div>
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Sarah Grey Thomason (Ann Arbor MI), until 2029</div>
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Martin Joachim Kümmel (Jena), until 2031</div>
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<b>NOMINATING COMMITTEE</b> </div>
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Chair: </div>
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Eugen Hill (Köln), until 2027 </div>
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Other Members: </div>
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Elly van Gelderen (Tempe AZ), until 2029 </div>
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Nathan Hill (Dublin), until 2031</div>
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Barbara Meisterernst (Hsinchu), until 2033. </div>
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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 (R.Mailhammer@westernsydney.edu.au)
know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 15 July. Nominations 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. </div>
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I look forward to seeing you in Santiago. </div>
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All good wishes, </div>
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John Charles Smith </div>
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Secretary, ISHL </div>
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<div style="font-family: Tahoma;"><span style="font-size: 10pt;">John Charles Smith</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford</span><span style="font-size: 13px;"><br>
</span><span style="font-size: 10pt;">College phone: +44 1865 271700; College fax: +44 1865 271768</span></div>
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