Dear Members and Friends of the Manchu Studies Group,
We warmly invite you to participate in our meeting-in-conjunction at this year’s AAS conference, scheduled to March 24 (Wed) 2021, 8:30-10pm EDT. Please find the registration link below and register at your earliest convenience. Unlike previous years, you do not need to have registered for the conference to attend this meeting.
We would like to bring your attention especially to items 2 and 3 in our agenda this year (see below). We hope to invite discussion at the meeting over two important issues: first, to potentially revise the by-laws of the MSG in search of a more open model without membership dues; second, to invite your thoughts and wish-lists for how Manchu Studies should move forward in the 2020s. If you cannot attend the meeting, please consider sending your comments over the two items to [email protected] before the meeting time, and we will make sure to read them.
Please note that the meeting will be recorded for the purpose of preparing a meeting memo. The recording will not be distributed beyond the membership.
We look forward to seeing many of you there!
Hosted by members of the current Executive Board: He Bian (President), Jaymin Kim (Secretary), David Porter (Website Editor)
Wednesday March 24
8:30-10:00pm EDT
MSG Meeting in conjunction
When: Mar 24, 2021 08:30 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)
Register in advance for this meeting:
https://princeton.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0rdeuprDIjH9WxNtsJFaZ9yH_O2g2Ep3bD
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Meeting Agenda
- Greetings, update from MSG board
- Acknowledgement of previous board
- Congratulations to Members’ book award (Max Oidtmann last year, and Macabe Keliher this year) – any other good news to share?
- Quick report of 2020 work (teaching, website update) – David Porter
- Quick update from Saksaha (Pär Cassel and Mårten Söderblom Saarela)
- Open Discussion: Remove language about membership dues in the MSG by-laws (we will not hold a vote at this time). See https://www.manchustudiesgroup.org/home-2/about-us-2/organization/.
– We have never collected membership dues and probably will not in the near future. Currently the cost of website maintenance is covered by Board members’ research fund and voluntary labor. What model should MSG emulate going forward?
– Convene a committee overseeing the revision of the by-laws over the next year, headed by He Bian and Jaymin Kim. Other volunteers? - Open Discussion: Manchu Studies in the 2020s – challenges? Opportunities? To-do lists? Ideas for collaboration? Mid-to-long term planning?
- Any agenda items from the audience? Announcement for upcoming academic events?
- Meeting adjourns by 10pm EDT