Hi all!

This month, the executive is not sending you the normal general report due to much face time in Maastricht, and an executive committee meeting report to be sent soon. Below you will find my regular summary of the executive Listserve. Later today (I’m hoping) I will post the minutes of the general meeting held in Maastricht, and in a day or so I’ll post the minutes of the executive committee’s Maastricht meeting.

Ulla Bunz (Secretary)

This month on the exec list:

September 12 – October 18, 2002

• Continued discussion of co-chairs for conference or program for Toronto in 2003. Issue was resolved by keeping Liss Jeffrey as the conference chair, appointing Matt Allen as the program chair, and David Mitchell as co-program chair with special responsibilities for keynote speakers and conference theme.
• Suggestions for keynote speakers that are shared with Liss Jeffrey and will be shared with air-meet, which is where discussion and decisions take place.
• Discussion about decision power between the executive committee and the conference committee (basically: who has the last word about what). Conference committee decides on theme, and proposes final keynote list to exec, which (in previous years) has always approved it. Program committee takes care of the program. Air-meet and the executive committee review the call for papers before it goes out.
• Agreement to re-vitalize air-meet, the conference planning Listserve. (Currently, air-meet is very active with great contributions by Liss Jeffrey, Toronto conference chair, and Matt Allen, Toronto program chair).
• Discussion about putting conference papers online. Does submission imply permission to put it online? Does that include email addresses? Do we make it public, or members only available? These questions were solved at the conference during a FTF meeting. Papers will be posted on the website for members only. In the future, when you submit your paper you will be asked to provide (or not) permission to us to put it online. More info will be available on air-l soon.
• Revision of the general meeting agenda and the executive committee agenda compiled by the secretary.
• Decision to designate Matt Allen as the person who writes regular conference updates (postcards) to air-l.

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Ulla Bunz

Assistant Professor

Department of Communication

Rutgers University

4 Huntington Street

New Brunswick, NJ 08901

Email: bunz@scils.rutgers.edu

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