PALA Ambassadors
Are you interested in making contact with other PALA members in your country or region? Can you help to spread the word about the benefits of PALA membership to your colleagues and postgraduate students? Would you like to organize or attend local PALA events? If so, consider becoming a PALA Ambassador. The aim of the PALA Ambassadors scheme is to encourage communication and interaction between PALA members on a local and/or regional level. There are many ways in which Ambassadors can facilitate the development of local PALA networks, from simply serving as a first contact point for news and events of PALA interest within a particular region, to organizing small-scale events (symposia, conferences, or purely social get-togethers). PALA student members are especially welcome to get involved. Interested PALA members should contact the publicity officer, Ernestine Lahey.
The recently-launched PALA ambassadors scheme has already established the following network:
| Region | Name | Email Address | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brazil | Sonia Zyngier | sonia.zyngier at gmail.com | |
| Canada | vacant | ||
| China (Hong Kong) | Peter Crisp | petergcrisp at cuhk.edu.hk | |
| Denmark | Nina Nørgaard | noergaard at language.sdu.dk | |
| Egypt | Wesam Ibrahim | weselmasry@yahoo.com | |
| Finland | vacant | ||
| France | Manuel Jobert | manuel.jobert at wanadoo.fr | |
| Germany & Switzerland | Beatrix Busse | beatrix.busse at ens.unibe.ch | |
| Iraq | Mohammed Jasim Betti | al_seady at yahoo.com | |
| Italy | John Douthwaite | j.douthw at virgilio.it; j.douthw at gmail.com | |
| Namibia | Sarala Krishnamurthy | skrishnamurthy at polytechnic.edu.na | |
| Portugal | Alcina Sousa | ninita at netmadeira.com | |
| Russia | Kira Andreeva | mairene at yandex.ru | |
| Spain | Coral Calvo Maturana | coralcm@ugr.es | |
| Sweden | Ulf Cronquist | ulf.cronquist at spray.se | |
| UK (Yorkshire) | Marjorie, Ka-Yee Cheung | marjorie.cheung at sheffield.ac.uk | |
| UK (Midlands) | Emma Moreton | Emma.Moreton at coventry.ac.uk | |
| U.S.A. (Western) | Chantelle Warner | warnerc at email.arizona.edu | |
| Venezuela | Elida León | elidaleon at yahoo.com |