GLOWing lectures 2024/2025

The GLOWing lecture series is a part of GLOW’s efforts of community-building, outreach, and strengthening of the generative community. The goal of GLOWing lectures is to provide tools, insights, and puzzles that will bring out why generative linguistics is important, invigorating, and relevant.

This year’s GLOWing topic is “How do we learn about language?” Every lecture will feature a speaker and a discussant working with different methodologies on different subfields. The lecture series aims to present diverse perspectives on linguistic research, how different methodologies and foci guide our theories, and how all of them are important for generative grammar and our understanding of natural language.

The lectures will be held on zoom, a YouTube recording will be made available after each lecture. All GLOW members receive the zoom link via email. If you are not a GLOW member, sign up HERE to get free access to the lecture.

All lectures and further information can be found HERE.

Join us for our first lecture on October 11, featuring Andrew Nevins and Jonathan Bobaljik!

Thank you to Caterina Donati und call for new board members

After many years on the GLOW board, Caterina Donati has decided to step down and give new people the chance to join the board. We thank her again for all her enthusiasm, wisdom, and outstanding support!

There are currently two openings in the board:

  • member with semantic focus
  • member with early career focus

If you are interested in working with the board on developing support for early career researchers or a better integration of semantics into GLOW, please nominate yourself or encourage anyone you know who may be interested in these positions to do so (a quick e-mail is sufficient). Anyone at any stage in their career from anywhere is eligible. The only requirement is that you should love generative linguistics!

Please send your nomination by September 1, 2024. The next step after the nomination stage will then be votes by the membership.

Results: vote on board reorganization

Thanks to everyone who participated in the most recent GLOW vote on the reorganization of the functions and responsibilities of the members of the GLOW board.

The results are as follows (you can also find details here):

  • 94 people (37.45% of all the members) cast a vote.
  • 89 (94.68% of all those who cast a vote) expressed agreement with the proposal.
  • 5 (5.32%) were against it.

The new board assignments can be found HERE

Membership updates

Since our membership has been growing, managing the subscription information has become increasingly complex. We have therefore decided that, moving forward, one GLOW board member will act as the membership administrator. For now, this is Markus Pöchtrager, who you can turn to with questions regarding your membership and who will send reminders about membership renewals.

Membership terms:

Starting 2025, the membership year will be the CALENDAR year (1.1. to 31.12). Whenever your membership will expire by the end of a year, you will get an e-mail reminder from the  membership administrator to renew.

Transition:

1. Since there is no GLOW colloquium in 2024, all memberships expiring during the calendar year 2024 will automatically be extended to Dec 31, 2024.

2. Ongoing memberships expiring during 2025 or a year afterwards (e.g., for multi-year memberships):

  • If a membership expires in the first half of a year, it will be active until before the GLOW colloquium of that year (i.e., the GLOW colloquium will not be included). To attend the GLOW colloquium of that year (in person or online), a new membership for that year will be necessary.
  • If a membership expires in the second half of a year, it will be extended to the end of that year.

Membership fees:

Starting in 2025, the regular GLOW membership fees will go back to what they have been in the past, but we will offer additional options and we have significantly lowered the student membership fees.

  • Regular member, 1 year:        € 25
  • Regular member, 5 years:      €110
  • Regular member, 10 years:    €200
  • Regular member, lifetime:      €300
  • Student member, 5 years:     € 5
  • Need based reductions:          upon request

Students:

  • BA, MA, PhD students
  • The board decided to make student memberships basically free. The €5 (for 5 years!) are there to prevent misuse of the membership and the GLOW system.

For anyone having difficulty paying the dues (for whatever reasons), please get in touch with the membership administrator and we will try to find a solution. 

As before, memberships have to be paid via the Paypal HERE.

Donations:

A suggestion at the town-hall meetings was to increase the membership for regular members (people said they could pay more), and to make student membership free. We followed the second part, but decided not to raise the regular membership fees, as there are vast differences across countries, positions, and other factors that may affect people’s ability to pay more.

But: We would really love to get (named or anonymous) donations from members who can afford it. It will be put to excellent use! If you would like to support us, you can donate directly HERE on our website! 

Prizes:

Starting with GLOW 47 in Frankurt, GLOW will award two prizes of €200 each for the best student presentations.

What does a membership get you?

  • You are allowed to vote on all decisions.
  • You can attend the GLOW conference: online for free; for in-person attendance, you need to only pay the local conference fee (for catering etc.).
  • You can attend the GLOWing lectures for free.
  • You will receive news, updates, information about resources, mentoring options, and much more to come.
  • We listen to your concerns.

Please spread the word, and share in particular with your students!

3rd GLOWing lecture!

Our third GLOWing lecture will be by Viola Schmitt on March 15, 15:00 CET (10:00 EST, 14:00 BST, 19:30 IST – note the daylight savings change mismatch!) She will be discussing with Marcel den Dikken on what’s exciting about Semantics.

The Zoom-link for the lecture will be distributed to all GLOW members via e-mail a day before the lecture. If you’re not a GLOW member but you still want to attend via Zoom, you can sign up HERE. To make sure you receive the Zoom link, please sign up at least two days before the lecture. Like the previous times, the lecture will also be live-streamed on YouTube!