Date: Wed, 9 Oct 1996 10:36:02 -0800

From: Mary Bucholtz bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]GARNET.BERKELEY.EDU

Subject: Reminder: photos needed



Just a reminder that COSWL still needs photos of women linguists, to be

exhibited at January's LSA meeting. *We are especially in need of photos of

female past presidents of the LSA. We also strongly encourage departments

to take group photos of current female faculty and students.* A final legal

issue: if you are not the subject of a photo you submit, please secure

permission for us to use it. Thanks very much! We appreciate your help.



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* THE COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN IN LINGUISTICS (COSWL) *

* OF THE LINGUISTIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA *

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* announces a *

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* C A L L F O R P H O T O G R A P H S *

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One charge of the LSA's Committee on the Status of Women

in Linguistics (COSWL) is to gather and distribute

information about and for women in linguistics. During

the past several years, COSWL has worked toward meeting

these goals by sponsoring a number of ongoing projects

that track and guide women's career paths: an

institutional questionnaire, a personal questionnaire,

mentoring workshops, and a women's narrative project.

For the 1997 LSA Annual Meeting in Chicago (January 2-5),

COSWL will be organizing a special presentation entitled

"The Lives of Women Linguists: Words and Images", an audio-

visual forum for documenting and celebrating the lives of

women in the field.



The audio portion of the presentation will comprise dramatic

readings based on edited and anonymous interviews of women

linguists, excerpted from the newly created database for the

COSWL Narrative Project.



The visual presentation will consist of photographs of

women linguists -- to be supplied by women and men in the

field today.



COSWL is asking all members of the linguistics community to help

us prepare for this important event. The committee is thus soliciting

photographs of women linguists from all levels of the discipline,

from undergraduate students to professors emeritae. Photos should

feature women in linguistics, either alone or in groups.



COSWL is especially interested in collecting photographs of

all of the LSA's past women presidents, as a tribute to their

important contributions to the society.



COSWL invites all interested parties to contribute to the project

by lending up to 7 photographs consistent with the theme

of the exhibit. (Anyone with a larger number of photos that

they believe would be of special value to the project should

contact David Silva before submitting them.)



To submit photos, please follow these instructions:



1. Select up to seven photographs depicting women in

linguistics and label the back of each with your name,

phone #, and e-mail address. We suggest that you use

a mailing label to do this; do not write directly on the

back of the photo, as the pressure of the pen may damage

the print. (If you are not the subject of a photo, please

secure permission for us to use it.)



2. Also attach to the back of the photograph the names of all

identifiable subjects; this can be done with either a label

(preferred) or with a "post-it". If there is more than one

person in the photo, please clearly identify each.



3. Place (a) the photographs and (b) a self-addressed stamped

envelope (with sufficient postage and clearly marked "PHOTOS:

DO NOT BEND") into a [slightly] larger envelope (also marked "DO

NOT BEND") and send to:



David Silva or Mary Bucholtz

Attn: COSWL Photos Attn: COSWL Photos

UTA Linguistics -- Box 19559 Dept of Linguistics, UC Berkeley

Arlington, TX 76019-0559 2337 Dwinelle Hall

Berkeley, CA 94720-2650



Selected photographs will be digitally enlarged and reproduced

for the January exhibit. All photographs will be returned in the

self-addressed stamped envelopes you provide.



After the Chicago meeting, the materials from the LSA exhibit

will be archived on the World Wide Web, thereby allowing

greater access to the words and images of women in the

field.



PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR PHOTOS NO LATER THAN FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1996.



If you have questions, please contact a member of COSWL or

e-mail Mary Bucholtz at bucholtz[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]garnet.berkeley.edu or David Silva at

DAVID[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]UTA.EDU.