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If this happens I will find a way to be there! If it so happens that we can arrange a symposium for this summer I'm all for it (though there is one week in June and one week in July during which I am supposed to be away at other conferences, so I'll keep my fingers crossed that a conflict doesn't arise). On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 4:06 PM, Valerie Sutton <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > SignWriting List > March 14, 2013 > > Hello Claudia and everyone - > I am glad to see interest in the idea of a SignWriting Symposium in La > Jolla! > > Back in 2005, thanks to the hard work of Kathleen Heylen and so many > wonderful people in Belgium & Europe, there was a 2-day Symposium that went > very well in Brussels - > > First European SignWriting Symposium, Brussels 2005 > http://www.signwriting.org/europe/esws2005/ > > I attended through Skype a little - I met a few people while they were > attending - > > I do not travel because of health reasons, so if you all are able to come > to La Jolla, which is a beautiful city on the ocean in San Diego, in > Southern California (near Mexico)…it would be wonderful - a great place to > be a tourist and enjoy the beach etc. > > And La Jolla is famous for researchers, such as Carol Padden, Ursula > Bellugi, Karen Emmorey, Rachel Mayberry and so many others - There is Salk > Institute, UCSD, SDSU and so forth. We might be able to arrange to hold the > SW Symposium under the auspices of one of these research labs at the > University - so that would be a great way for all of you to benefit talking > to other researchers etc… > > I would suggest a longer SW Symposium - as you suggest, Claudia - in depth > lessons in SignWriting taught by me, Adam Frost, and other skilled > Signwriters and teachers too, like yourselves...So we could make it a > series of SignWriting courses or workshops over a period of two weeks or a > month - maybe the University could provide a dorm for participants - > > What about June - July 2013? > > I know in Brazil June and July is your winter time - can any of you come? > > How many would like to come? We have no funding - so you all will have to > find your own funding to come - if the University can donate the space that > will be the first step, and of course we hope you will come over to my home > for a party in-between classes - smile - > > Anyone seriously interested? > > Val ;-) > > -------- > > > On Mar 14, 2013, at 4:56 AM, Claudia S. Bianchini <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > A simposium in La Jola... that's a great idea! I really hope it will be > done! > > Claudia > > PS: please, not during the university lessons period (september-may) > because to come from euope a couple of days will not be enought and it's > hard to lose more than 1 or 2 lessons :-) > > -- Erika Hoffmann-Dilloway Assistant Professor of Anthropology Oberlin College