The Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China (STLS-2016) will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, September 8–10 (Thursday–Saturday), 2016. This is the seventh circular with updated information on lodging and registration.

1. Lodging

The workshop has secured blocks of discounted rooms at two hotels. It is the responsibility of all workshop attendees to make their own arrangements for lodging.

If you need a hotel room, visit the lodging page of the website for instructions on making a reservation. August 7 is the final date to make reservations, but some rooms may be released to the general public before that date. So please make your reservation as soon as you can, in order to ensure availability.

Important: If you have already registered for the workshop and indicated a hotel preference on the registration form, you do not have a hotel reservation! You must follow the instructions to reserve a hotel room.

2. Travel

A travel information page has been added to the website, and will be updated periodically. It provides information on flying into Seattle and getting to the hotels and workshop site from the airport.

3. Please Register

Registration is now open. Please visit the registration page of the workshop website to register. We encourage presenters to register soon, so that we can confirm participation and assemble a preliminary program.

Anyone attending the conference, whether presenting or not, should register. We need an accurate count of the number of people attending.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsoring institutions, we do not anticipate requiring a fee for pre-registration. Pre-registration will be open until August 15. After that date, only on-site registration will be possible.

4. Invitation Letters

Official invitation letters will be issued upon request. Please make your request through the registration form. (If you have previously requested a letter by email, you do not need to make a second request.)

5. Information for Presenters

Some preliminary information for presenters is now available on the conference website. This information will be supplemented over the next few months. If you are a presenter and anticipate restrictions on your availability for presentation times, please contact us as soon as possible. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs as we plan the program.

With all best wishes,

Zev Han­del (on behalf of the STLS-2016 Organizing Committee)
stls2016@uw.edu
http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016

• Copies of all email cir­cu­lars are posted on the conference web site.
• If you did not receive this circular directly from stls2016@uw.edu, and would like to be added to the mailing list for future workshop announcements, please send a request by email to stls2016@uw.edu with your name and preferred email address.

The Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China (STLS-2016) will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, September 8–10 (Thursday–Saturday), 2016. This is the sixth circular and call for pre-registration­­.

1. Registration is Open

Registration is now open. Please visit the registration page of the workshop website to register. We encourage presenters to register soon, so that we can confirm participation and assemble a preliminary program. The registration form also contains a survey about hotel needs.

Thanks to the generosity of our sponsoring institutions, we do not anticipate requiring a fee for pre-registration. Pre-registration will be open until August 15. After that date, only on-site registration will be possible.

2. Invitation Letters

Official invitation letters will be issued upon request. Please make your request through the registration form. (If you have previously requested a letter by email, you do not need to make a second request.)

3. Abstract Review

Abstract review has been completed. All authors who submitted abstracts should have received a notification of acceptance, rejection or placement on the alternate (waiting) list. If you submitted an abstract but did not receive a notification, please contact us immediately.

We wish we could have accepted all abstracts, but the high number of submissions made it impossible to do so. We hope that even if you will not be presenting, you will still be able to attend the workshop.

4. Travel and Lodging

Please provide information about your hotel needs when you register. This will help us to secure an appropriate number of rooms at nearby hotels. Information on how to reserve a hotel room will be made available next month.

A travel information page has been added to the website, and will be updated periodically.

5. Information for Presenters

Some preliminary information for presenters is now available on the conference website. This information will be supplemented over the next few months. If you are a presenter and anticipate restrictions on your availability for presentation times, please contact us as soon as possible. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs as we plan the program.
With all best wishes,

Zev Han­del (on behalf of the STLS-2016 Organizing Committee)
stls2016@uw.edu
http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016

• Copies of all email cir­cu­lars are posted on the conference web site.

• If you did not receive this circular directly from stls2016@uw.edu, and would like to be added to the mailing list for future workshop announcements, please send a request by email to stls2016@uw.edu with your name and preferred email address.

The Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China (STLS-2016) will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, September 8–10 (Thursday–Saturday), 2016. This is the fifth circular.

1. Abstract Review

Abstract review has been completed. All authors who submitted abstracts should have received a notification of acceptance, rejection or placement on the alternate (waiting) list. If you submitted an abstract but did not receive a notification, please contact us immediately.

We wish we could have accepted all abstracts, but the high number of submissions made it impossible to do so. We hope that even if you will not be presenting, you will still be able to attend the workshop.

2. Invitation Letters

Official invitation letters will be issued upon request. If you need an official invitation (in order to apply for a visa, to apply for funding, or for any other reason) send your request to stls2016@uw.edu. Please put “request for invitation letter” in the subject line of the email; indicate if you would like to receive a pdf file, hardcopy by regular post, or both; and let us know if you require any specific information to be in the letter. Also, please indicate the title by which you should be addressed: “Prof.”, “Dr.”, “Mr.”, “Ms.”, etc.

3. Registration

Advance conference registration will be available through the conference website before the end of May. An email announcement will be sent when registration opens.

4. Travel and Lodging

We are in the process of securing blocks of rooms, at different price points, at several hotels near the conference site on the University of Washington campus. We anticipate that lodging costs will range from about $75 per night (for shared rooms at the cheapest hotel) to about $215 per night (for a single room at the most expensive hotel). Information on lodging should be up on the website by the end of May.

The nearest airport to the conference site is Seattle-Tacoma International Airport (SEA). The trip from the airport to the campus and hotels takes about 30 minutes by taxi (depending on traffic) and about an hour by light rail. Details on transportation will be placed on the website over the summer.

5. Information for Presenters

Some preliminary information for presenters is now available on the conference website. This information will be supplemented over the next few months. If you are a presenter and anticipate restrictions on your availability for presentation times, please contact us as soon as possible. We will make every effort to accommodate your needs as we plan the program.

Finally, I would like to thank the workshop’s Scientific Committee for their hard work conscientiously reviewing a large number of abstracts in a short period of time. Thanks to their efforts, we are confident that our workshop will be a success.

With all best wishes,

Zev Han­del (on behalf of the STLS-2016 Organizing Committee)
stls2016@uw.edu
http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016

• Copies of all email cir­cu­lars are posted on the conference web site.

• If you did not receive this circular directly from stls2016@uw.edu, and would like to be added to the mailing list for future workshop announcements, please send a request by email to stls2016@uw.edu with your name and preferred email address.

The Fourth Workshop on Sino-Tibetan Languages of Southwest China (STLS-2016) will be held at the University of Washington in Seattle, USA, September 8–10 (Thursday–Saturday), 2016. This is the fourth circular and reminder about abstract submission.

Abstract submission is now open! The deadline for submission is February 29, 2016. To submit your abstract, visit the “Abstract Submission” page of the conference web site. Abstracts may be submitted only via the conference web site. Remember that abstract review is anonymous, so please do not include author names in the abstract or its file name.

Note that all presentations must go through the abstract review process. If you plan to present at the conference, be sure to complete your submission before the end of the month. (Even if you have previously sent me a tentative presentation title, you must still submit an abstract for review.)

Results of abstract review (acceptance/rejection) will be sent out in April 2016. Around that time, another circular will be distributed including information on travel, lodging and registration.

With all best wishes,

Zev Han­del (on behalf of the STLS-2016 Organizing Committee)
stls2016@uw.edu
http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016

• Copies of all email cir­cu­lars are posted on the conference web site.

• If you did not receive this circular directly from stls2016@uw.edu, and would like to be added to the mailing list for future workshop announcements, please send a request by email to stls2016@uw.edu with your name and preferred email address.

The Fourth Work­shop on Sino-Tibetan Lan­guages of South­west China (STLS-2016) will be held at the Uni­ver­sity of Wash­ing­ton in Seat­tle, USA, Sep­tem­ber 8–10 (Thursday–Saturday), 2016. This is the third cir­cu­lar and call for abstracts.

Abstract submission is now open! The deadline for abstract submission is February 29, 2016. To submit your abstract, visit the “Abstract Submission” page of the conference web site, http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016. Please remember that abstract submissions are anonymous, so do not include author names in the abstract or its file name.

The conference web site remains a work in progress, and will continue to be built out over the following months. If you have questions or suggestions, please contact the conference organizers at stls2016@uw.edu.

The following information is updated from the second circular:

1. The conference program will be determined by anonymous review of abstracts.
2. Abstract sub­mis­sion is now open and will run through Feb­ru­ary 29, 2016. Abstracts may be submitted only via the conference web site; abstracts will not be accepted by email.
3. Results of abstract review (acceptance/rejection) will be sent out in April 2016.
4. Copies of all email cir­cu­lars are posted on the con­fer­ence web site at http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016.
5. If you did not receive this circular directly from stls2016@uw.edu, and would like to be added to the mail­ing list for future work­shop announce­ments, please send a request by email to stls2016@uw.edu with your name and pre­ferred email address.

With all best wishes,

Zev Han­del (on behalf of the STLS-2016 Orga­niz­ing Com­mit­tee)
stls2016@uw.edu
http://blogs.uw.edu/stls2016