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WHASC Newsletter November 18, 2004
("What's Happening at Santa Cruz")
WHASC is the weekly electronic newsletter of the UCSC Linguistics
Department. We welcome your news items, comments and feedback.
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SEMANTICS OPENING
The Department announces the opening of a two-year visiting position in semantics for 2005-06 and 2006-2007.
Applicants should have a PhD degree in Linguistics and a research and teaching specialization in formal semantics. A secondary specialization in syntax will be viewed favorably.
The deadline to apply is February 1, 2005. For more information, please visit:
http://ling.ucsc.edu
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PHILOSOPHY COLLOQUIUM TODAY
Peter Hanks from the University of Minnesota will speak on
"Animal Minds and Animal Behavior"
at 4:00 p.m. today (Thursday, November 18)
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson College
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DISSERTATION DEFENSE
Dan Karvonen will defend his dissertation on
Friday, December 3 at 5:00 p.m.
Cowell College Conference Room
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WECOL
Jaye Padgett was an invited speaker at last weekend's annual WECOL (Western Conference on Linguistics) at USC. The talk was titled "Challenges of modeling perceptual distance effects in phonology."
http://www.usc.edu/dept/LAS/linguistics/WECOL/
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OLD FRIENDS
Jennifer Smith and Shigeto Kawahara made presentations at the 14th Japanese/Korean Conference held at the University of Arizona November 5-7, 2004. To see a recent photo of them, please visit Chris Potts' November 11 issue of WHISC:
http://www.umass.edu/linguist/about/whisc/whisc-2004-11-11/
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CALL FOR PAPERS: S A L S A 2 0 0 5
The Symposium About Language and Society-Austin is pleased to announce its 13th Annual Meeting to be held April 15-17, 2005 at the University of Texas at Austin. They encourage the submission of abstracts on research that addresses the relationship of language to culture and society.
2005 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Asif Agha, University of Pennsylvania
Dale April Koike, University of Texas at Austin
Hugh Mehan, University of California, San Diego
John R. Rickford, Stanford University
Visit the SALSA web page for submission guidelines and conference details and to submit your abstract:
http://studentorgs.utexas.edu/salsa/
Deadline for receipt of abstracts is JANUARY 14, 2005.
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CALL FOR PAPERS: CLS 2005
Chicago Linguistic Society - 41st Annual Meeting
April 7-9, 2005
The deadline for submission is January 15, 2005
http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/cls/conf/conf.html
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CALL FOR PAPERS: RMMLA
The Rocky Mountain Modern Language Association 59th Annual Convention
Coeur d'Alene Resort on the Lake, Idaho
October 20-22, 2005
Paper proposals due by March 1, 2005
http://www.rmmla.org
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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
The Department of Linguistics at The University of New Mexico announces a tenure-track position to begin August 2005. Evidence of research and teaching interest in at least two of the following three areas: phonology, language change, morphosyntax.
Deadline for receipt of application is December 15, 2004.
Inquiries may be directed to Melissa Axelrod: axelrod@unm.edu
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COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS GRAD PROGRAM
Georgetown University recently revitalized their Computational Linguistics Programs. They invite applications for their new PhD, 24-credit MS, and 6-credit Certificate programs in Computational Linguistics.
They also have some financial aid available for MS and PhD students on a competitive basis.
For more information, please see:
http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/linguistics/program/computational.htm
and
http://complingone.georgetown.edu/~linguist/GU-CLI.html
For any further details, please feel free to contact Dr. Inderjeet Mani, Program Head in Computational Linguistics: im5@georgetown.edu).
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NEWS FROM FRANCE
The issues n° 7 & 8 of the free on-line journal dedicated to linguistics Marges Linguistiques are now available at the following address :
http://www.marges-linguistiques.com
All contributions can be freely downloaded.
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Tenure-track Position, Language Variation and Change
Memorial University of Newfoundland
The Linguistics Department of Memorial University invites applications for a tenure-track position in language variation and change, effective September 1, 2005. The successful applicant will be expected to teach at both undergraduate and graduate levels in sociolinguistics and language variation and should demonstrate an ability to teach at the advanced undergraduate level in one or more of the areas of historical/sociohistorical linguistics, language and gender, language contact, language and history and linguistic typology. The successful candidate will be expected to maintain an active research program in language variation and change, and supervise graduate students in this area; an interest in pursuing research on the dialects and languages of the region (English, French, local aboriginal languages, for which substantial archives and new laboratory facilities exist), would also be an asset.
Application deadline: November 19 2004.
Applications should be directed to: Dr. M. MacKenzie, Head, Department of Linguistics, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John‚s, NL A1B 3X9. Phone: (709) 737-8134; fax: (709) 737-4000; email: linguist@mun.ca 

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