To push things forward after the summer break, the Langscape coordinators, Lutz Küster and Stephan Breidbach, invite the newly-formed Board of Directors and the Research&Network Consultants for a kick-off-meeting. The meeting will take place at Humboldt-University on Saturday, December 14, from 9:30 to 1:30, followed by a concluding lunch.

The kick-off-meeting aims at elaborating and specifying the plans for the development of Langscape initiated in Istanbul in April this year. We hope to be able to set up an agenda for Langscape to be implemented the coming 3 years .

In order to be able to reach this admittedly ambitious goal, it is our main concern for all of us to have the same state of information and for everyone to be able to feed in her/his ideas and potential. Ideally, each of the directorates should be represented by at least one person at the meeting. The coordinators therefore ask the directors to decide who will be present at the meeting and send their feedback as soon as possible.

Also note that the AILA-ReN Symposium “Sociocultural Theory and Emergentism” will take place at the same venue on Dec. 13, one day before the meeting. The call for papers will be open until Sept. 8 and all Langscape members are welcome to submit their proposal for a short presentation. Non-presenting guests are also welcome.