The information below relates to the preparation for, and the running of the 2011 elections.
The elections in 2011 are the fourth under the Constitution as revised by the ALLC Committee at its December 2007 meetings. The Constitution is available for consultation here.
Three members of the ALLC Committee are to be elected, each to serve a three-year term 2011-2014. The retiring members are: Alejandro Bia; Ariana Ciula; Øyvind Eide. Of the three retiring Committee members, Ariana Ciula and Øyvind Eide are eligible for nomination to serve a further three year term, but Alejandro Bia is not, because he has already served at least two terms, a substantial commitment for which the Association is extremely grateful.
A new Treasurer is to be elected to serve a three-year term 2011-2014. The outgoing Treasurer, Paul Spence, is eligible to stand for re-election.
The first stage of the elections is a nominations period, which will begin on Monday, March 21st, 2011 and will end on Friday, April 15th, 2011.
The second stage is voting by ALLC members to elect Committee members from among those nominated. This stage will begin on Monday, May 2nd, 2011 and will end on Friday, May 27th, 2011. The results will be announced at the ALLC Annual General Meeting, which will take place during the Digital Humanities 2011 conference.
The third stage is the appointment of a Treasurer, from among those nominated, by the ALLC Committee at its meeting on Saturday, June 18th, 2011.
Someone is a member of the ALLC in good standing if s/he is a current individual subscriber to the journal LLC - able to quote their subscription number1 - who has signed up in the subscription process as either an 'ALLC' or 'Joint' member. 'Current' means the current subscription year, i.e. 2011.
Nominees must be members of the ALLC in good standing.
Each nomination must be supported by two ALLC members in good standing - in effect a proposer and seconder, and must have a statement from the nominee of her/his willingness to stand. The process of nomination is described below. Self-nomination is not permitted under the terms of the Constitution.
Invitation to submit nominations: closing date April 15th, 2011
Nominations are invited for the following positions:
THREE Committee members: to serve 3 years 2011-2014
Treasurer: to serve 3 years 2011-2014
Nominations may be made by email, or by post, as follows:
Nominations may be made by email, in which case we suggest three email messages for each nomination: one from each nominator and one from the nominee, confirming that they are willing to stand. Each email message must include the sender's LLC subscription number1 - i.e. for a valid nomination, the LLC subscription number is required for each of two nominators and for the nominee. Email nominations should be sent to nominations[at]allc.org
Nominations may be made by post to
Contact Details:
ALLC Elections 2011
c/o English Philology
Faculty of Humanities
PO Box 1000
90014 University of Oulu, FINLAND
In all cases, nominations must be received no later than April 15th, 2011.
Each registered subscriber to LLC who entered 'ALLC' or 'Joint' as their membership option will be entitled to vote. The voting system to be used is managed by OUP, who will send each voter a 'token'. In order to vote, the voter will be required to enter both their LLC subscriber number1 and the token they have been sent. Full details of the url and the voting system will be circulated to eligible voters and published on this website.
The voting process will be scrutinised by Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen (Chair), Espen Ore (Secretary) and Jan-Christoph Meister (Committee Member).
The results will be formally announced at the ALLC AGM in Stanford in June.
1. Your LLC subscriber number is on the address label when the journal is sent to you and on the subscription reminder letter. If you haven't kept any of these papers, then contact the ALLC Membership Services Coordinator David Beavan by email: membership-allc [at] digitalhumanities.org; or the ALLC Chair Lisa Lena Opas-Hänninen: lisa.lena.opas-hanninen [at] oulu.fi, or OUP: Journals Customer Service Department, Oxford University Press.