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Post-conference announcements
| Dear IADA members and friends:Almost four weeks now separate us from the 14th international conference of IADA, which took place in Turku, Finland. It was a great conference where about a hundred scholars and students met together to speak about literature and dialogue. I would like to extend my deepest thank to Professor Roger Sell (Åbo Akademi University) as well as his PhD students, Inna Lindgren, Adam Borch, and Sofi Lindholm for their fantastic job in organizing this special event.
As you probably know, the general assembly of our association took place during this event, an assembly that allowed members to vote for the new board of IADA. I am happy to report that we now have 9 new board members. Here they are: Letizia Caronia François Cooren (president) Before this election took place, Edda Weigand was congratulated for all her contributions to the association. It was proposed that Professor Weigand be named Honorary President and founding vice-president of the association. This proposition was adopted unanimously. We would like to also thank Lawrence Berlin for doing such a fantastic job as a treasurer during the past years. He will be missed too! At this point, I am happy to confirm that our 2013 Conference, titled “Dialogue in Multilingual Communities of Practice” will be held in Austin, Texas, USA, from March 22-24, 2013 and will be hosted by Dale Koike, Carl Blyth & Jürgen Streeck (University of Austin, Texas). You will soon receive information about the CFP and the deadline for abstract submission. I am also reminding you that a workshop titled “The Communication of Certainty and Uncertainty: linguistic, psychological, philosophical aspects” will be held at the University of Macerata (Italy) from October 3-5, 2012. For more information, go to the website. Thank you |
Minutes of the IADA General Assembly MeetingThe meeting was called to order and the agenda was presented to the General Assembly. 1. Approval of minutes (from the Montreal meeting in 2011) The participants are invited to read the minutes of the general assembly that took place in Montreal for the 13th IADA conference. After a question related to the fees, the minutes are approved unanimously. 2. Membership Participants are reminded that membership is now obligatorily connected with the journal, Language and Dialogue, for a standard fee of 80 Euros and a student fee of 50 Euros. In addition, scholars coming from Tier B and Tier C countries will have the possibility of benefiting from this new package for a reduced fee of 60 euros for both journal and membership. Students from TierB and Tier C countries will also pay a student fee of 50 euros. Given this connection with the journal, IADA now has to pay a minimum of 50 journal subscriptions per year to John Benjamins, i.e., 2,500 euros/year. However, given the current low level of membership, François Cooren proposes that from now on all the registration fees of IADA’s yearly events automatically include the payment of membership fees to the association. This would mean an increase of roughly 70 euros for all these events, but would secure income for the association, which has become a necessity. After some discussions regarding the pros and cons of this proposal, this proposition is unanimously adopted. It will be effective for the workshop that is planned in Austin, TX in 2013. This means that all participants in this event will automatically become members of our association. In addition to the journal subscription, IADA membership also includes a 30% discount on the volumes in Dialogue Studies, published by John Benjamins, the right to vote on all issues pertaining to the life of the Association, as stipulated in the IADA Constitution, as well as reduced registration fees at the IADA conferences, symposia and workshops. 3. New website IADA now has a new website, which was launched last year and is managed in the Department of Communication at the Université de Montréal. The address ishttp://www.iada-web.org. The members can renew their membership through this website, they can download the online proceedings of former conferences and they can access a lot of information related to IADA. 4. Finances Lawrence Berlin, treasurer of the association, announces that the balance just before the Turku conference was US$6,765.82. A payment was, however, made to John Benjamins during the event to cover the cost of the 1-year Language and Dialogue journal charges (EUR 2,500.00) in the amount of US$3,334.05. 5. Publications The participants are encouraged to submit manuscripts to Language and Dialogue, as well as book projects to the collection Dialogue Studies, edited by Edda Weigand, and published by John Benjamins. Scholars can also submit volume proposals to the online series, which is available on the IADA website. So far this series has been only devoted to proceedings, but it is reminded that it can also be used as an outlet for book or edited book proposals. 6. Future activities: Austin, Texas The participants are reminded that two IADA events are coming up: – In 2013, a IADA workshop titled, “Dialogue in Multilingual, Multimodal, & Multi-competent Communities of Practice” will be hosted in Austin, Texas, USA and organized by Dale Koike, Carl Blyth, Hans Boas and Jürgen Streeck. The deadline for abstracts will be announced soon 7. NADAs Members then discuss the question of NADAs (National associations for dialogue analysis). Two years ago, an Italian colleague proposed to create an Italian association for dialogue analysis, a proposition that was then countered by other Italian colleagues. After some discussion, the IADA executive committee decided not to recognize the creation of this Italian association, given the controversy that this idea triggered. It remains that IADA does not have so far some clear guidelines regarding the creation of national associations. After some discussions during the assembly in Montreal, it appears that three options seem to be possible: – IADA could create guidelines that would dictate how such national associations would be created and then recognized by IADA. Right now, the question of national associations is not mentioned anywhere in the by-laws of the association. The issue is discussed and the assembly comes to the conclusion that the second option is the best one. This means that IADA will not recognize any national association. However, it goes without saying that people will have to ask permission to organize a IADA event in their country or region of the world, given that the name and reputation of IADA is involved. It is also proposed that IADA encourage the sharing of information between members of the same country. François Cooren reminds the participants that with the new website, it will be soon possible for each member to have information about other IADA members, which should address this question. 8. Elections Before taking the election, François Cooren gives the floor to Professor Edda Weigand, who is the current president of the association. Professor Weigand announces that she will not renew her term as president of the association and hope that the next president will continue to increase membership and develop activities. She wishes good luck to the association. François Cooren thanks Edda Weigand for all her contributions to the association. He also proposes that Professor Weigand be named Honorary President and founding vice-president of the association. This proposition is adopted unanimously. François Cooren also thanks Lawrence Berlin for all his contributions as treasurer of the association. The 12 candidates for the board are then presented and the election takes place. 13 members cast their vote, in addition to the nine votes that were electronically sent to the association. The nine elected members are: Letizia Caronia 18 votes The assembly was then adjourned. Respectfully submitted François Cooren |