WFAE Call for Nominations

The Board of Directors of the World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE) is accepting nominations from each of its affiliates for the position of Vice President, to work closely with the current President, Nigel Frayne, and take up the position of President in the second year of office.

In brief, the role and responsibility of the Vice President is to: open dialogue with president to prepare for taking the position the following year; assist the president by sharing the load; sit on journal editorial committee representing WFAE.

The role and responsibility of the WFAE President is to: represent the WFAE; provide the presence and voice of the organisation; maintain an overview of the various activities of committees; chair board meetings (online and offline); respond to questions and requests for information about WFAE; ensure that the WFAE name is protected and that administrative operations are legal and robust.

Individual members of the Canadian Association for Sound Ecology who are interested in entering the nomination process are invited to send a statement of intent and CV to CASE for consideration as a WFAE Vice-President nominee. *Applications should be sent via email to Nadene at CASE case@magma.ca and copied to Andrea at andrea@pandancer.net .

The deadline for sending applications to CASE is June 15th , 2009, after the annual retreat. CASE will review received applications and forward one nominee to WFAE by June 25, 2009. The office will be filled for a term beginning June 30 (or there about) for the Vice Presidency and June 1, 2010 for the term of Presidency announced at the WFAE Conference in Finland that year.

Any questions regarding this process can be addressed the CASE representative on the WFAE board of directors, Andrea Dancer via the above noted email.


About the WFAE

The World Forum for Acoustic Ecology (WFAE), founded in 1993, is an international Interdisciplinary Association of Organisations (in collaboration with active individuals) from around the world who correspond with and assist each other to actuate and maintain activities pertaining to Acoustic Ecology.

The philosophy of the WFAE is informed by the individual perspectives of geographers, designers, composers, educators, architects, social planners, philosophers, psychologists, and many others working in scientific, social and cultural contexts./

Within a framework of care for the sonic environment WFAE works in collaboration with it's Affiliated and Associated Members to promote: education and learning; research and study; the communication and dissemination of information; environmental activism in the field of acoustic ecology.

Excerpt from WFAE bylaws.

For more Information about the World Forum of Acoustic Ecology, visit http://interact.uoregon.edu/MediaLit/wfae/home/