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A Message from the CEA Board of Directors
CEA Critic ( IF <0.1 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-17 , DOI: 10.1353/cea.2020.0029

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A Message from the CEA Board of Directors

Dear CEA Members:

COVID-19 has taken so much from us as a nation and as a profession. Of course, the cost in human lives eclipses everything else, but other costs register in how we have been asked to give up things that matter in order to ensure the safety of ourselves, our families, and our communities.

Last spring, before the extent of the virus was known, it was travel restrictions that compelled us to cancel our annual meeting, which was scheduled for Hilton Head. At that point, we were at least hopeful that we would reconvene in 2021 in Birmingham. The situation across the nation, however, remains precarious, and the Board has recently been forced to consider whether, for the safety of our CEA family, a traditional gathering was advisable. After carefully weighing our options, we decided the risk was too great.

In deciding against the Birmingham conference, the Board also entertained the idea of a “virtual” conference. This possibility, too, was rejected. What draws our members time and again to our annual gathering, after all, is the collegiality and the community that defines the CEA. A virtual “President’s Reception” simply could not compare.

In sum, then, the CEA Board of Directors has voted to postpone the conference until March 29-April 1, 2022. Please know that this decision is nothing less than heartbreaking to us--it means that three years will have passed between the time CEA left New Orleans in 2019 (where we celebrated 50 years of holding annual conferences) to the time we will gather again in 2022. For a tightly knit group like ours, that is a very long time to be apart. Reaffirming our commitment to both topic and locale, our 2022 conference will still be held in Birmingham, and it will remain focused on the important theme of justice. Proposals already submitted for CEA 2021 will automatically be moved to CEA 2022, and another call for proposals will be issued next August.

Until we can meet again in Spring 2022, stay safe and be well. [End Page xi]

CEA Board of Directors:

Elizabeth BattlesAmanda BrahlekLauren DiPaulaCatherine ForsaValerie KasperSusanna Hoeness-KrupsawEmily Jane PuckerMoumin QuaziIrene Rieger

CEA Executive Committee members:

Scott Borders, Executive DirectorLynne Simpson, Associate Director and TreasurerLee Anna Maynard, PresidentKen Bugajski, First Vice-PresidentStacy Bailey, Second Vice-PresidentLinda Di Desidero, National Coordinator of AffiliatesJeraldine Kraver, Historian and Critic EditorJamie McDaniel, Forum Editor [End Page xii]

中文翻译：

CEA董事会寄语

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CEA董事会寄语

尊敬的CEA成员：

作为一个国家和一个职业，COVID-19从我们这里获得了很多收益。当然，人类生活中的成本使其他一切黯然失色，但是其他成本也记录在我们被要求放弃重要事情的方式中，以确保我们自己，我们的家庭和社区的安全。

去年春天，在不知道该病毒的程度之前，是旅行限制迫使我们取消了原定于希尔顿头岛举行的年度会议。到那时，我们至少希望我们能在2021年在伯明翰再次集会。但是，全国各地的局势仍然不稳定，董事会最近被迫考虑，考虑到我们CEA家族的安全，是否宜进行传统聚会。在仔细权衡我们的选择之后，我们认为风险太大。

在决定不参加伯明翰会议时，董事会还接受了“虚拟”会议的想法。这种可能性也被拒绝了。毕竟，使我们的会员一次又一次地参加我们的年度聚会的是，定义CEA的协作性和社区性。虚拟的“总统接待”简直无法比拟。

总之，CEA董事会已投票决定将会议推迟至2022年3月29日至4月1日。 CEA于2019年离开了新奥尔良（我们庆祝了50周年年会的举行），直到2022年我们再次聚会。对于像我们这样的紧密组织，这是一个很长的分离时间。为了重申我们对主题和地区性的承诺，我们的2022年会议仍将在伯明翰举行，并将继续关注正义这一重要主题。已经提交给CEA 2021的投标书将自动移至CEA 2022，明年8月将再次发出投标书。

直到我们在2022年春季再次见面之前，请保持安全和健康。[第xi页结束]