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Ling Research Center at UT Austin in danger of being defunded (letter by Hans Boas, 18 Apr. 2020)

Dear colleagues and friends of historical linguistics,

I hope you are doing well and that you and your loved ones are staying healthy during this time of crisis brought on by the global COVID-19 pandemic. I know, like all of us, you must be anxious about health concerns, stressed by changes at work, and exhausted from the sheer volume of often conflicting information regarding the crisis. I therefore apologize profusely for adding to the chaos.
But the situation at the Linguistics Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin is dire:
Our new Dean of the College of Liberal Arts (CoLA) is considering cutting our gap funding, which will mean closing the LRC altogether. CoLA is naturally looking to save money wherever possible due to the revenue shortfall expected from the pandemic. The Dean appears to think that the LRC is "non-essential" to UT Austin.
We are doing our utmost to convince the Dean that the LRC's comparatively small budget (under $70 K per year) pulls outsized weight: as the University transitions online, it will rely heavily on an online scholarly presence and reputation that the LRC has been pivotal in establishing over the past decades. For the price of a single staff salary, the LRC maintains UT's prominence as a critical first stop in the quest to learn nearly 20 ancient languages encapsulating a vast array of the world's cultural, historical, and linguistic diversity.
With this sense of urgency, and not without some trepidation, I ask for your timely assistance: please write a letter of support for the LRC. Please help us convince the Dean of the LRC's uniqueness and that it is in fact "essential" to UT as well as a much broader group of academics and non-academics around the world.
Consider describing the importance of the LRC's online materials in supporting your efforts as researchers and instructors. For example, one of our 19 lesson series is on Old English, see here.
It now also comes with audio recordings of Old English text by Tom Cable of UT Austin.Give a glimpse of how students benefit from LRC materials and how this contributes to the field and boosts UT's prestige at the same time. Or, you may address the question of what UT stands to lose if the LRC would have to close down in August 2020, just a year shy of its 60th birthday.
I do not ask this lightly. You have your own pressing matters weighing on your shoulders. But the 30 minutes spent by a colleague of your caliber demonstrating to the Dean your support for the LRC could mean the difference of whether the LRC exists this time next year. If you know other colleagues, especially outside of North America, who would also be interested in writing letters, please forward my message to them. If you personally know any presidents of scholarly societies who would also write a letter, please pass this message on to them, too. I would be personally grateful for any consideration you could offer.
Please send your letter by email, preferably as a PDF with letterhead, to ME (hcb @ mail.utexas.edu ) by 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 22, 20202. The letter should be addressed to "Dean Ann Stevens, College of Liberal Arts, UT Austin." I will collect all letters of support and include them in further my correspondence with the Dean. Please do not send your correspondence directly to her, she has enough going on with the fallout from the pandemic crisis.
Thank you so much for your support, I very much appreciate it a lot.
With all best wishes,
Hans Boas
The Anna Morpurgo Davies Masters Bursary:
Contributions are invited to establish a bursary in the name of Anna Morpurgo Davies, which would be given normally to someone working on Ancient Languages (including non-Indo-European ones, following Anna's own suggestion).
For further info, see here.
(December 2014)
Journal Chatressar revived:
Die Zeitschrift Chatressar, die seit 2009 nicht erschienen ist, wird jetzt von Ronald Kim und seinen Prager Kollegen weiter herausgegeben als International Journal for Indo-European, Semitic, and Cuneiform Languages.
Ronald und seine Kollegen nehmen jetzt Aufsätze für den nächsten Band (Jahrgang 2010-11) an, der bis Ende dieses Jahres erscheinen soll.
For further info, see here.
(Juni 2014)
New journal Wek^wos:
Romain Garnier et al. founded a new journal.
For further info, see here.
(Dezember 2013)
New journal Indo-European linguistics:
Joseph F. Eska und Ronald Kim founded a new journal.
For further info, see here.
(August 2012)
Zeitschrift Indogermanische Forschungen:
The journal has a new board of editors, and will be a Peer-reviewed journal from now on.
Please find additional information here.
(Juli 2012)
Strasbourg:
HERA JRP 2012: research programme "Cultural Encounters"
Call for Papers on Text Technology
Guest editors Armin Hoenen and Thomas Jügel (Digital Humanities, Goethe University Frankfurt a.M.) invite you to submit a paper to appear in the JLCL special issue 2012/2 "Altüberlieferte Sprachen als Gegenstand der Texttechnologie" / "Text technological Mining of Ancient Languages" (topics include: Corpus linguistics, Computational lexicography, Usage of web resources).
Please send an abstract to jlcl22012 at hucompute.org . The deadline for accepted articles is 1st of June 2012.
All contributions will be reviewed anonymously. Please omit your name in your contribution. Instead, please add a file with a) the author names b) title of the contribution and c) address of corresponding author. Contribution must meet the scientific standards of journal articles. The editor keeps the right to reject contributions which do not meet these standards.
Papers may be submitted in either LaTeX or MS Word format. Electronic document preparation templates are available online: http://jlcl.org/index.php?modus=style_sheets&language=en
Important Dates:
Submission: 1st June 2012
Feedback from the reviewers: 1st July 2012
Submission of final manuscript: 1st October 2012
contact: jlcl22012 at hucompute.org
Leipzig:
Streichung der Professur für Historische Sprachwissenschaft und Onomastik geplant

Moskau:

Sehr geehrte Kollegen!

Wir freuen uns Ihnen über die Gründung der neuen rezensierten Zeitschrift Uralo-altajskie issledovanija (Ural-Altaische Forschungen) mitteilen zu können. 

Die Zeitschrift Ural-Altaische Forschungen veröffentlicht Aufsätze aus dem Bereich der uralischen (finnisch-ugrischen und samojedischen) und altaischen (türkischen, mongolischen, mandchu-tungusischen, koreanischen, japanischen) Sprachwissenschaft und Volkskunde sowie den unmittelbaren Nachbarwissenschaften, ferner Buchbesprechungen, Nekrologe sowie Erwiderungen auf früher erschienene Beiträge. 
Ural-Altaische Forschungen werden in russischer, englischer, deutscher Sprache erscheinen. Die Autoren werden ersucht, nach Möglichkeit selbst für die entsprechende sprachliche Form ihrer Beiträge zu sorgen. Die Verfasser der Aufsätze senden bitte auch ein englisches Resümee von maximal 120 Wörtern ein (auch bei englischsprachigen Beiträgen).

Redaktion: 
Chefredakteurin: Prof., Dr., korrespondierendes Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Anna Dybo.
Stellvertreterin der Chefredakteurin: PD Dr. Julia Normanskaja

Redaktion:
Prof. Dr. Blagova G.F.
Prof. Dr. Dambueva P.P.
Prof. Dr. Kuznecova A.I
Prof. Dr. Mudrak O.A.
Prof. Dr. Myznikov S.A.
Dr. Nikolaeva I.A.
Prof. Dr. Nurieva F.Sh.
Prof. Dr. Pyurbeev G.C.
PhD Robeets M. 
Prof. Dr. Selyutina I.Ya.
PD Dr.Tadinova R.A.
Dr. Ekba Z.N.

Redaktionssekretär: Dr. Ilia Gruntov

Redaktionsrat:
Prof., Dr., korrespondierendes Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 
Alpatov V.M. (Moskau)
Prof., Dr., korrespondierendes Mitglied der Russischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 
Anikin A.E. (Moskau)
Prof., Dr. Ahmet'yanov R.G. (Sterlitamak)
Prof., Dr. Bakro-Nagy M. (Budapest)
Prof., Dr. Blazhek V. (Brno)
Prof., Dr. Garipov T.M. (Ufa)
Prof., Dr. Egorov N.I. (Cheboksary)
Prof., Dr. Kormushin I.V. (Moskva-Nikosiya)
Prof., Dr. Kyzlasov I.L. (Moskva)
Prof., Dr. Laakso J. (Wien)
Prof., Dr. Musaev K.M. (Moskau)
Prof., Dr. Nasilov D.M. (Moskau)
Prof., Dr. Nevskaya I.A. (Frankfurt)
Prof., Dr. Riese T. (Wien)
Prof., Dr. Skribnik E.K. (München)
Prof., Dr., Mitglied der Jakutischen Akademie der Wissenschaften Slepcov P.A. (Yakutsk)
Prof., Dr. Stachowski M.  (Warschau)
Prof., Dr. Hisamitdinova F.G. (Ufa)
Prof., Dr. Honti L. (Budapest)
Prof., Dr. Shirobokova N.N. (Novosibirsk)
Prof., Dr. Schönig K. (Berlin)
Prof., Dr. Erdal M. (Frankfurt)
 
Aufsätze für die ersten drei Heften (bis zu 15 Seiten) senden Sie bitte bis zum 9th of September 2009 per e-mail julianor@mail.ru in .pdf und .rtf-Formate.
Falls im Computertext Transkriptions- oder andere Sonderzeichen vorkommen, die nicht mit dem Computer angebracht werden können oder die beim Konvertieren des
Textes verlorengehen würden, wird gebeten - vor allem bei wiederholtem Auftreten im Text - sie eindeutig zu kodieren. 
Ein Verzeichnis der Kodierungen ist dann natürlich dem Manuskript beizufügen. 
Der Computertext braucht nicht formiert (Marginale, Zeilenabstand, Seitennummern etc.) zu werden, auch die Silbentrennung muß nicht gekennzeichnet werden.
Bei der Gestaltung der Beiträge sollten die für wissenschaftliche Texte des Fachgebietes üblichen Gepflogenheiten berücksichtigt werden. 
Die im Beitrag vorkommenden sprachlichen Elemente werden kursiviert oder unterstrichen, die Bedeutung wird angegeben in halben Anführungszeichen (z. B. fi. lukea 'lesen'). 
Die Literaturangaben werden in Klammern im laufenden Text angebracht, z. B. (Schlachter 1981: 24-25).
Sonstige Hinweise werden nicht am unteren Rand der Seite angebracht, sondern erscheinen durchnumeriert als eigene Gruppe am Ende des eigentlichen Textes. 

Hochachtungsvoll, Redaktion.

Irina Nevskaya, 2. 6. 2010

Pavia / Bergen:
John Benjamins' publishing house is launching a new Journal of Historical Linguistics, edited by Silvia Luraghi and Jóhanna Barðdal.
journal flyer
Silvia Luraghi, 22. 3. 2010
Kopenhagen / Leiden:
Tocharian and Indo-European Studies invites authors to submit articles for volume 12, scheduled to appear in 2010. The deadline is 1 April 2010.
Articles may be sent to ties (at ) hum.ku.dk and guidelines can be found at http://www.mtp.hum.ku.dk/tidsskrift.asp?teln=900016.
The 12th volume will be dedicated to Prof. Ji Xianlin, who passed away 11 July 2009.
Michaël Peyrot, 18. 11. 2009
Leiden:
Brill publishing house is launching a new series of books in IE studies: BIEL
Liesbet Kanis, 13. 2. 2008
Kopenhagen:
On the first of July 2008 a new centre of excellence, "The Roots of Europe - language, culture and migrations", will be established at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics, under the leadership of Jens Elmegård Rasmussen. With this centre it is the aim to create a fruitful interdisciplinary environment for the general study of prehistoric Europe. While the basic working group in Copenhagen will mainly concentrate on linguistic aspects (Indo-European morphophonemics, morphology and word formation, Baltic, Slavic, Celtic, Germanic, Italic, connections between Indo-European and Uralic), a number of external associates will deal with questions of linguistic substrata, loanword relations, religion and mythology, archaeology and genetics. The common research projects will be organized from Copenhagen, and a continuous exchange of ideas will be secured by visits by the external members, arrangements of guest lectures, block seminars and conferences and the assistance of an international advisory board.
Birgit Olsen, 7. 2. 2008
Stellungnahmen / Comments:
Angelos Chaniotis: Von kleinen Fächern, kurzen Sichten und großen Herausforderungen (22.10.06)
Erklärung zur Lage der Asienwissenschaften (August 2004)
Noam Chomsky: A Quick Reaction to the Attack on America (12.9.01), Interview (18.9.01)
2001 Europäisches Jahr der Sprachen
Sprachanalysen zur Feststellung des Herkunftsstaates - Scharlatanerie oder Wissenschaft?
Computerisches / Technical stuff:
Hoax-Info-Service
Hoax Encyclopaedia
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