[Histling-l] ISHL Nominations

[John Charles Smith]

IMPORTANT MESSAGE FOR ALL MEMBERS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR HISTORICAL LINGUISTICS



Dear Friends and Colleagues,



I hope you are all as well as possible in these difficult times.



This is, I’m afraid, an even longer message than usual about nominations to positions within the Society.  As you are aware, our 25th Conference, in Oxford, has been postponed until next year, on account of the Covid pandemic.  However, several positions in the Society will still fall vacant this year, and the Constitution (which defines tenure in terms of biennia rather than intervals between ICHLs) requires nominations to be made to these positions.  Indeed, regardless of the constitutional point, it is important for the future Conference Director to be nominated now in order to give them the customary four years to prepare.  In the absence of an ICHL this year, the ‘handover’ date will be 1 September 2021.



Nominations should be ratified by a Business Meeting of the Society.  However, the next such meeting will not be held until the Oxford Conference.  The Executive Committee and the Nominating Committee have discussed this issue and propose that the ratification take place at that meeting and that the nominees serve as normal until then.  I hope that this procedure will be acceptable to members.



The Nominating Committee has made the following nominations:



i)  FUTURE PRESIDENT/CONFERENCE DIRECTOR (for 2025)



Verónica Mariel Orqueda

(Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile)



ii)  MEMBER OF EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE (to serve until 2027)



Joseph Salmons

(University of Wisconsin–Madison, Madison WI, USA)



iii) MEMBER OF NOMINATING COMMITTEE (to serve until 2029)



Elly van Gelderen

(Arizona State University, Tempe AZ, USA)



iv)  SECRETARY



The Nominating Committee proposes that John Charles Smith (University of Oxford, UK) should continue to serve as Secretary of the Society.



NOTE: JOINT PRESIDENCY, 2021-2022


Jadranka Gvozdanović is due to assume the Presidency this year, whilst Aditi Lahiri would normally become Former Conference Director, remaining on the Executive Committee.  However, constitutionally, Aditi needs to be President in order to organize and preside at the Oxford Conference.  It is therefore proposed that Aditi and Jadranka serve as Joint Presidents for the year 2021-2022.  Aditi will be ‘President: Conference Director 2022’, and Jadranka will be ‘President: Conference Director 2023’, becoming sole President in 2022-2023.  The Nominating Committee, the Executive Committee, and both the colleagues involved have agreed to this arrangement.



With these nominations, the composition of the Society's Committees will be as follows:



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE



Until ICHL 25.  Joint Presidents:

Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)

Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg)



After ICHL 25.  President and Director of the 2023 Conference:

Jadranka Gvozdanović (Heidelberg)



After ICHL 25.  Former Conference Director:

Aditi Lahiri (Oxford)



Future President and Conference Director (2025):

Verónica Mariel Orqueda (Santiago de Chile)



Secretary:

John Charles Smith (Oxford)



Other Members:

Lyle Campbell (UH Mānoa), until 2023

Mark Harvey (Newcastle NSW), until 2025

Joseph Salmons (UW Madison), until 2027



NOMINATING COMMITTEE



Chair:

Brigitte L. M. Bauer (Max Planck Instituut / UT Austin), until 2023



Other Members:

Robert Mailhammer (Western Sydney), until 2025

Eugen Hill (Köln), until 2027

Elly van Gelderen (ASU, Tempe), until 2029.



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 at stcatz.ox.ac.uk) and the current Chair of the Nominating Committee (ellyvangelderen at asu.edu) know by email as soon as possible, and in any event before 1 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.



Thank you for your patience in reading through this interminable message.  I look forward to seeing you in Oxford next year.



All good wishes,



John Charles Smith

Secretary, ISHL

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John Charles Smith
St Catherine's College, Oxford, OX1 3UJ, UK
Research Centre for Romance Linguistics, University of Oxford
College phone: +44 1865 271700; College Fax: +44 1865 271768
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