1) Expand the SEALS Executive by appointing two new members. The Executive now consists of:

• Chair: Kitima Indrambarya (Kasetsart University)
• Deputy Chair: Pittayawat (Joe) Pittayaporn (Chulalongkorn University)
• Secretary: Mathias Jenny (University of Zurich)
• Treasurer: Mark Alves (Montgomery College)
• Publications Officer: Paul Sidwell (Australian National University and CRCL).

2) The Executive will investigate the steps needed to incorporate SEALS as a non-profit society.

3) The Executive will prepare a draft constitution for consideration at the 2013 meeting.

2) The members of the Society advocate the documentation, study, analysis, teaching and maintenance of Southeast Asian Languages.

3) To these ends, the Society undertakes:

  a) to hold international meetings, normally annually, and in a manner that provides reasonable opportunity for scholars and students from Southeast Asia to participate

  b) to publish a journal, and such other publications and communications as deemed appropriate, in order to provide opportunity for the presentation of scholarly research and documentation on Southeast Asian Languages

  c) to maintain a website as a point of contact and information

  d) to maintain appropriate academic standards in meetings and publications, principally by means of peer review of papers and abstracts

4) The Society accepts as members those persons who, in good faith, make a declaration of endorsement of this statement of purpose.

    The SEALS conference regularly circumnavigates the globe, and has met in Southeast Asia, the United States, Europe and Australia.  It is generally expected to meet in Asia at least every other year.  The 2013 meeting will be held in Bangkok, Thailand.

    SEALS features papers on the languages of Southeast Asia, including Austroasiatic, Austronesian, Hmong-Mien, Tibeto-Burman and Tai-Kadai.  Topics have included descriptive, theoretical, or historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology (ethnolinguistics, language attitudes and ideology, discourse and conversational analysis, language and gender, language and politics), language planning, literacy and bilingual education.