COTSEAL-Sponsored Panel and Business Meeting at the 2020 AAS Conference in Boston

Dear COTSEAL members,


On behalf of President Juliana, VP Pittaya (Fon) and myself, I’d like to take this opportunity to remind you that the upcoming COTSEAL sponsored panel and the COTSEAL Business Meeting at the 2020 AAS Conference in Boston will take place soon. If you plan to attend the AAS Conference, we would be glad to see you at one of these events or all. Below is the information:


1) Title: Glocalization of Southeast Asian Language Instruction (#71)

Date & Time: Friday, March 20, 9:00am-10.45am

Location: Hynes Convention Center: Room 309, Level 3

Chaired by Thuy Tranviet, Cornell University

The Challenge of Glocalization on Khmer Language Instruction (Chhany Sak-Humphry, University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

Authentic Listening Materials in Indonesian Class. Is It Important? (Rahmi Aoyama, Northern Illinois University)

Philippine Traditional Games and Pastimes: A Tool for Teaching Language and Culture (Leticia Pagkalinawan, University of Hawai’i at Manoa)

Glocalizing Southeast Languages and Food Cultures in Appalachian Setting (Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, Ohio University)


2) COTSEAL Business Meeting

Date & Time: Saturday, March 21, 7.30-9.30 pm

Location: Sheraton: Beacon B, 3rd Floor

If you are available to join us for early dinner at 5 pm (COTSEAL sponsored, place: TBA), please RSVP with me agustini@umich.edu by Friday, March 13.

At the Business Meeting, the new COTSEAL Officers will be introduced to all members and begin their terms of service.


3) We also hope that you can attend a related workshop in which Juliana Wijaya and Gyanam Mahajan (UCLA) and her colleagues from SALTA will be speaking on:

Strategies for Developing and Expanding Asian LCTL programs (#369)

Date and Time: Sunday, March 22, 9-10.45 am

Location: Hynes: Room 210, Level 2



Thank you in advance for your continued support and we look forward to your participation.



Best,

Agustini

COTSEAL-sponsored panel at AAS and COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda

Dear colleagues,

Happy 2019! I hope this email finds you well. If you’re coming to AAS March 21-24, 2019 in Denver. I’d like to invite you to attend our COTSEAL-sponsored roundtable:

Trimming the Hegemony: Linguistic Imperialism and Ethnic Diversity in the Language Classroom (Panel 333)

Sunday, March 24: 9.00-10.45 AM (Room: TBA)

Panelists:

Dr. Abigail C. Cohn, Professor of Linguistics & Director of Southeast Asia Program, Cornell University

Dr. Bich-Ngoc Turner, Vietnamese Lecturer, University of Washington

Ms. Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, CIS World Languages Coordinator & Thai Lecturer, Ohio University

Ms. Jinda Moore, Program Coordinator, SEASSI, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Dr. Kanjana Thepboriruk, Assistant Professor of Thai Language and Culture, Northern Illinois University (Moderator)

We’re also going to hold our business meeting on Saturday, March 23, 8 – 9.30 AM at Place: TBA. We’ll have a breakfast meeting, and the agenda will include:

  

1. COTSEAL Financial Report
2. Online membership payment and membership drive
3. Upcoming COTSEAL conference in UW-Seattle
4. SEALC activity and Luce proposal updates

Please let me know if you’d like us to include new items to discuss in the meeting, and please contact Pittaya Paladroi-Shane paladroi@ohio.edu to RSVP.

Do let me know if you have further questions. We greatly appreciate your continued support to COTSEAL.

Look forward to seeing you in Denver.

Best regards, 

Juliana Wijaya, PhD

COTSEAL President

COTSEAL Business Meeting Minutes from AAS 2017 Now Online

You can view the minutes from the March 17, 2017 COTSEAL Business Meeting here. The minutes from this recent meeting include the full COTSEAL financial report for 2017, and a detailed report on the 2016 COTSEAL teacher training workshop.

Minutes from previous meetings can be viewed at:

http://cotseal.net/business.html

COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda at AAS in Toronto, Friday, March 17, 2017

COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda

Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting,

Rosedale Room, Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel

Friday, March 17, 2017 7:30-9:00 am

1. Financial report by Sheila Zamar, COTSEAL Secretary

2. COTSEAL Workshop 2 at UW-Madison in May 2016 by Jolanda Pandin, COTSEAL Vice-President (Pittaya Paladroi-Shane, incoming COTSEAL Vice-President)

3. COTSEAL website by Frank Smith, COTSEAL President (Sheila Zamar)

4. Introduction of 2017-2020 COTSEAL Officers by Sheila Zamar

5. Reviving the JSEALT journal. by Sheila Zamar

6. Title VI current and future funding on Group Project Abroad (GPA) by Abby Cohn

7. Upcoming Workshop 3 at Cornell on September 8-10, 2017 by Abby Cohn

COTSEAL Business Meeting, Friday, April 1, 2016

Note: if you are planning on attending, please RSVP to fjsmith@wisc.edu ASAP!

COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda Friday, April 1, 2016

Tamarind Tree Restaurant 1036 S. Jackson Street Seattle, WA (International District)

6:00 pm

Note that this year's business meeting will NOT be held at the AAS conference hotel, but at a Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle's International District.

1. Forming an election committee for coordinating elections for the next COTSEAL president, vice-president, and secretary (Jolanda Pandin, COTSEAL Vice-President)

2. Forming a COTSEAL-sponsored panel for AAS 2017 in Toronto (Frank Smith, COTSEAL President)

3. COTSEAL Financial report (Sheila Zamar, COTSEAL Secretary)

4. Report on the 2015 COTSEAL summer conference at UW-Madison (Sheila Zamar, COTSEAL Secretary)

5. Report on the COTSEAL instructor professional development workshop at UC-Berkeley, Sept., 2015, and plans for the upcoming workshops at UW-Madison  (June 3-4, 2016) and Cornell University (2017, date TBA) (Erlin Barnard) 

2015 COTSEAL Business Meeting at AAS

Several important initiatives for 2015 and beyond were discussed at our business meeting, March 27, 2015, at the Association for Asian Studies Conference in Chicago.

Here are the minutes of the meeting, also archived on the COTSEAL Business page.

COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda at AAS, Chicago IL, Friday March 27

AAS Conference, Sheraton Chicago Hotel and Towers

Friday, March 27, 2015, 7:30-9:00 pm, Parlor D

1. Financial Report - Sheila Zamar, COTSEAL Secretary

2. 2015 COTSEAL Conference at SEASSI, UW-Madison, July

17-18 - Frank Smith, COTSEAL President

-general plans/format

-travel grants for participants

-formation of planning committee

3. 2015 COTSEAL Teacher Training Workshop at UC-Berkeley, September 18-19 - Frank Smith

-general information

-formation of committee for participant selection

-plans for follow-up conferences (2016 at UW-Madison; 2017 still under discussion)

4. General announcements/topics for discussion

-”Notes from the Field” blog on COTSEAL website: submissions needed - Frank Smith

-Southeast Asian Language and Linguistics Panel at Cornell in 2015 - Jolanda Pandin, COTSEAL Vice-president

-Reviving JSEALT Journal: thoughts? volunteers? - Sheila Zamar


Please e-mail fjsmith@wisc.edu with any questions.

COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda July 18, 2014

Here's the COTSEAL business meeting agenda for July 18, 2014.

7-18-14 COTSEAL Business Meeting Agenda

The meeting will take place in Madison, Wisconsin, over dinner at an as-yet-undetermined restaurant, at 7 pm this Friday, following the COTSEAL Conference wine reception.

2014 COTSEAL-AAS Business Meeting and Roundtable Minutes Posted

Minutes to the COTSEAL Business Meeting and Roundtable at the 2014 Association of Asian Studies Conference in Philadelphia have been posted in the "Business" section of the COTSEAL website:

2014 AAS-COTSEAL Business Meeting Minutes