Colleague Ricardo Bermúdez-Otero has just been announced as plenary speaker at the Seventh North American Phonology Conference (NAPhC7). The premier phonology conference of the new world will be held at Concordia University, Montreal, in May:
http://linguistics.concordia.ca/naphc7/
As it happens, he’ll also be giving the opening plenary at the Ninth Old World Conference in Phonology (OCP9) in Berlin in January:
http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/workshop_ocp9.html
The semanticists in the department reckon that this makes Ricardo the phonologist of choice in all possible worlds!
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