2007 Meeting Reports

ICLA Governing Board Meeting; Business Meeting of the ICLA Assembly; and Conference Closing Meeting/Ceremony, ICLC 10, Krakow, Poland, July 2007

1. Report on the ICLA Governing Board Meeting/CL Editorial Board Meeting

Date/time:
Location:

Present at the Governing Board and Editorial Board Meeting:
- Governing Board members: Klaus-Uwe Panther (President), Ad Foolen (Secretary/Treasurer), Laura Janda (Regular Member), Klaus-Uwe Panther (Regular Member), Sally Rice (Regular Member), Dirk Geeraerts (most recent Past President), Kee Dong Lee (ex-offico member, Representative of the ICLC 9 Organizing Committee). Absent: Adele Goldberg (ex-officio member, CL Journal Editor).

- By invitation of the President: Anke Beck (reprentative of Mouton, CL Publisher), Ron Langacker (advisory for various items), Eve Sweetser (for item 3 on ICLC 9), Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk (for item 4 on ICLC 10), Thomas Li and Eve Sweetser (for item 5 on ICLC 11, 2009), Sherman Wilcox (for item x Sign Language Interpreting).

Items of Business

Supper - At 6.30 p.m. ICLA Governing Board members and guests went to a restaurant for the meeting.

Call to order of ICLA Governing Board - Klaus-Uwe Panther

Minutes from ICLC 9, Seoul - The President requested approval of the minutes of the Board Meeting and the Business Meeting of ICLC 9, Seoul, from 2005. They were re-approved. [They had already been approved by email on August 15, 2006. They are posted at Meeting Reports 2005.]

Report on ICLC 10, Krakow - Elzbieta Tabakowksa (Chair of the ICLC 10 Organizing Committee). The total attendance was XXX (as of July 19th): XXX paying participants, X invited speakers, X volunteers. The total income was $XXX. ICLC 10... (The full conference financial report can be checked with the Secretary). The President thanked the Organizers for their wonderfully well-run conference. The Board thanked them also for providing the restaurant supper.

Report on progress of ICLC 11, 2009, U.C. Berkeley - Eve Sweetser.
Proposals for ICLC 12, 2009 - There was discussion of a new version of the proposal presented at ICLA 9 in Seoul by Thomas Li (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics) and one by XXX

After much discussion, the Board decided approve the locale of ICLC 12 in China, but to request a proposal from the two current proposers which incorporated both as organizers.
Sign Language Interpreting Fund - Sherman Wilcox reported

Regular Business

Secretary/Treasurer's report

Ad Foolen presented his financial report.

Ad reported that the number of paying members rose from 344 to 358 in the past half year. Anke proposed that a new brochure on ICLA should be made, which could be distributed via other journals etc. and the Linguist List, to attract new members. ICLA has two accounts, one in Europe and one in the US. The latter was held for many years in the name of Margaret Winters, but she could not continue with the position of American Treasurer. The account was transferred to Suzanne Kemmer in June 2005. Outstanding reimbursements due to Suzanne Kemmer and Eve Sweetser for air travel to ICLC6 in Stockholm were settled from the American account. The European account now has E11.707 (the $5,000 for ICLC 9 already deducted), and the American account has $4,573.50.

Anke suggested that, in the future, ICLA might consider maintaining the member list, which to date has been handled by Mouton at the cost of $12 per member. The work would probably fall to the Secretary/Treasurer or a hired assistant. No decision was taken on this point.

Editor's report - The Editor of Cognitive Linguistics, Ewa Dabrowska, reported.

Anke presented

Role of Board Members - Suzanne Kemmer, following up on her suggestion in 2003 that the role of the ICLA Governing Board Members be specified more explicitly and also the role of the American Treasurer and the Webmaster, presented an updated document (with feedback from other Board Members and Ron Langacker) outlining the Board roles and also some non-Board roles for people serving the ICLA. It was agreed that the Board Roles would be posted to the website as organizational information.

Requests for affiliation -

The application documents can be checked with the Secretary. The Board approved all the applications.

Conference organization: Guidelines booklet - Suzanne Kemmer, following up on her suggestion made at Seoul, presented the latest incarnation of the Guidelines and Expectations for ICLC Organization and its Aftermath. This document was originally begun after the Logrono conference based on the many improvements suggested by Boardmembers then. Since then, experience from the Seoul conference The document now includes a draft timeline for major organizational tasks. These documents will be given to Eve Sweetser, organizer of ICLC 11, after the conference, and posted on the ICLA website. with incorporation of suggestions based on the feedback from the Korean as well as the Spanish conference, and should provide a good basis for future conferences. It will be passed on to the Polish organizers after the Seoul conference. [The document was sent to Eve Sweetser, conference organizer of ICLC 11, in January 2008.]

Election 2007 - The President solicited suggestions for election nominees.

Adjournment - The President adjourned the meeting at 11.15 pm.

2. Report on the Business Meeting of the ICLA Assembly

Date/time: Tuesday July xx 2007,
Location: Attendance: ca. 65

Items of Business

Call to order by the President, Klaus-Uwe Panther

Reports by the President - Klaus Panther reported that ICLC 10 is attended by XXX participants. ICLC 11 will take place in Berkeley, CA, U.S.A. in 2008, and ICLC 11 in 2009 Two venues in China are the current candidates for 2011 (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, BUAA, PRC, and Shanghai).

- About the journal:

- new regional affiliate organizations

- The website is based at Rice University, with Suzanne Kemmer as Webmaster, together with Martin Hilpert, who is serving as Web Editor. The President invited members to send in books for review or write a review of a book for the ICLA website. See the instructions for prospective reviewers and for those who would like to make their books available for review on the ICLA book review page.

Report by the Acting Secretary/Treasurer - Ad Foolen reported that the total number of paying individual members is xxx The top 10 by country: (old numbers--to be updated)

1. Japan 72,
2. USA, 71,
3. Germany 31,
4. Spain 19,
5. Great Britain 18,
6. Korea 16,
7. Netherlands 16,
8. France 10,
9. Belgium 10,
10. Australia 9.

Elections - Ex-officio members of the new Board will be: Eve Sweetser as Chair of ICLC 11, Ewa Dabrowska as Editor of CL, Klaus-Uwe Panther as Past President. The President took nominations for the other functions and subsequently voting took place. The names of the proposed candidates and votes are as follows:

President:
Laura Janda Elected

Regular members:
Elected

Hubert Cuyckens (Belgium) 23 re-elected

Continuing as Ex officio Governing Board members:
Secretary/Treasurer: Ad Foolen
Cognitive Linguistics Editor: Ewa Dabrowska
The new 2007-2009 Governing Board will begin its term immediately after the ICLC 10 conferences is over. Their term will continue until the end of the ICLC 11 conference at Berkeley.

Adjournment - The President, Klaus-Uwe Panther, adjourned the meeting at 7:30 p.m.

3. Closing Ceremony

Draft of meeting reports submitted by Ad Foolen, Feb. xx, 2008. Amended by . Final version submitted by Ad Foolen Feb xx, 2008

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