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(November, 2011) A classic in sign language studies, Mary Brennan's dissertation Word formation in British Sign Language, has been made available as a PDF file.
(August, 2011) Do have a look at the new issues of Sign Language & Linguistics (14:1, Aug. 2011) and the Journal of Deaf Studies and Deaf Education (16:4, fall 2011). From earlier this year: Sign Language Studies (11:3, spring 2011).
(July, 2011) Irish PhD student Laura Sadlier passed away; Lorraine Leeson has written an obituary.
(June, 2011) SLLS has awarded the SLLS Best Poster Prize to the following three posters presented at TISLR10:
1. Brenda Nicodemus and colleagues, The impact of language modality on linguistic encoding of perceptual categories (1st Prize, €200)
2. Anna Sáfár and colleagues, Handedness in the Corpus NGT (2nd Prize, €100)
3. Jonathan Udoff & Karen Emmorey, Phonological constraints on handshape mapping in ASL (3rd Prize, €50)
We congratulate all winners with their prize, and encourage everyone to take another look at their posters in the Poster Archive.
(June, 2011) Prof. Brita Bergman of Stockholm University has received a royal medal for her important contributions to the field in the last 35 years.

(June, 2011) The SLLS board has sent a letter of support to colleagues in Italy, where the government is planning to amend laws relating to LIS in such a way that it is no longer referred to as a language, but rather as a system of mime and gesture.
(May, 2011) We have created a summary of the 124 responses to the questionnaire about the TISLR10 conference.
(Febr., 2011) The SLLS Poster Archive is now available to members who are logged in to the site, under the Scholarly Output menu. Members can download posters from the archive, and submit PDF files of their poster presentations presented at any conference.
(Jan., 2011) With sadness we report the passing away of Elena Pizzuto; an obituary will follow shortly.
At the society's General Meeting preceding the TISLR10 conference, members decided on the following two issues:
- A new board was elected, adding Kearsy Cormier to the existing board for the period 2010-2013.
- The upcoming TISLR conferences will be in London, UK (2013) and Melbourne, Australia (2016).
A new web site has been launched that explains basic linguistic terminology to deaf people in international sign and a variety of spoken languages: www.signlinguistics.com.