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23rd board of Study Association T.W.I.S.T., 2024-2025
Pronounced however you desire.
Pati Tatar (it/all)
Chairperson
Hi! I’m Pati, and I will be your chair for the upcominᵹ year. This means I’ll be holdinᵹ an overview of everythinᵹ, runninᵹ meetinᵹs, and beinᵹ overall responsible for T.W.I.S.T. and how it exists with other associations. I’m in my third year of comparative IE linᵹuistics and lanᵹuaᵹe & coᵹnition (multi-track driftinᵹ!), as well as takinᵹ a few math/physics/bio classes. I like to spend my free time playinᵹ (video)ᵹames, watchinᵹ stuff, and beinᵹ with my friends. Talk to me about queer intersectionality, Romanian, or any comparative-coᵹnition crossover episode!
Favourite Board Name Pronunciation: U+2299 circled dot operator
Matea Haverlík (she/it)
Secretary
hi everyone! i’m matea, and I am T.W.I.S.T.’s secretary this year. this means that i am making sure that each T.W.I.S.T. member (and friend!) is correctly accounted for. other than that, i am currently doing my third year in the Comparative Indo-European Linguistics track. in my free time i like to solve puzzles, play around with fonts, and do some casual programming. i am also doing a minor in game studies and i am not beating the gamer allegations. talk to me about west slavic languages!
Favourite Board Name Pronunciation: Vector pointing out of page 🫵
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Štefan Henri Števík (he/him)
Treasurer
Hi everyone, my name is Štefan. I’m now in the second year specializing in Descriptive linguistics. I am from Slovakia, a beautiful country in Central Europe. I got into Linguistics actually from my main hobby – learning national anthems by heart. I am also passionate about human geography, I can name you almost all the capital cities in the world (if you play capital cities with me and you win, you get a free drink from me!). I will not shut up about languages and language fun facts, and spontaneously use 4 different languages in a single sentence. Also if you play(ed) Civilization V or VI hit me up! In the board I have the role of Treasurer, that mean I will be big on receipts and counting money. I actually like working with finances and counting and working with tables and doing maths!
P. S. Do people even read these intros? I will give you a quiz question: With which country does France have the longest international border? The first one to text me or tell me the correct answer will receive a small gift from me!
Favourite Board Name Pronunciation: Oko
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Zoë Klunder (she/her)
Assessor Internal Communications
Howdy! I’m Zoë, T.W.I.S.T.’s very own Assessor Internal and resident human connection enthousiast. I will mostly be taking care of the website, scheduling and in general just making sure y’all are informed of the goings-on within T.W.I.S.T. In my personal life I am a second year descriptive student, an art enjoyer and creator (mostly writing, but really I like any medium I can get my grubby little hands on), a horrible perfectionist except when I’m not, a technology hater (except for the T.W.I.S.T. website) and a witch (be grateful I have decided to use my powers for good instead of evil (jk I do it with love <3)). I will gladly talk your ears off about the oeuvre of Kunihiko Ikuhara (or animation in general) or the connection between language, art, religion and existence, so talk to me about (experimental) animation, philosophy or really anything strange and interesting you happen to be knowledgable about!
Favourite Board Name Pronunciation: Monad
Sytze Krom (he/him)
Assessor External Communications
Hi everyone! I’m Sytze and I’ll be T.W.I.S.T.’s Assessor External this year. This means I’ll be managing the communications with other associations and organisations, as well as the social media. I’m currently in the fourth year of my BA History and writing my thesis on inter-war Dutch socialists. In my free time I like to read, play (video)games and have long political discussions. Talk to me about socialism, philosophy and politics, or invite me to a game of chess!
Favourite Board Name Pronunciation: Zugzwang
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What does each role mean?
CHAIRPERSON
The chair of the association leads the board. This means that they lead the board meetings and GA’s (General Assembly). To lead such a meeting, they have to make the agenda first. The agenda holds all important points to talk about, for example committees, future activities, or other things that are going really well or the opposite.
The chair also participates in external meetings, like de VerO (verenigingen overleg/associations meeting), KleVer (kleine verenigingen/small associations meeting) and the StOP (Studievereniging Overleg Platform/Study Association Deliberation Platform). Besides these activities, the chair is in several committees and attends as many events as possible.
SECRETARY
The secretary is the writer of the association. Writer, you may ask? The secretary writes the minutes during board meetings and GA’s. Almost everything is written down by them: important points explained, and sometimes even comments from other people. Besides writing the minutes, the secretary is also responsible for answering emails that are sent to them and also for writing the monthly newsletters. Same as the chairperson, this person is in several committees, tries to attend external meetings as well and of course our own events.
TREASURER
The treasurer of the association is responsible for the money. They keep track of the association’s bank account, make up the budget for the school year and also the budget for all committees. If anyone has a question about money, for example for paying for activities organized by one of our many committees, they can go to the treasurer. But the board nor a committee can not just spend money on everything. The treasurer keeps the receipts for everything that is spent.
Same as the chair and secretary, the treasurer tries to attend as many of our own events as possible and is in several committees.
ASSESSOR
In our board, there are two assessors: an assessor internal communications and assessor external communications They all do different things within the association, but work together closely. It is therefore important to communicate well in order for things to happen. They are also responsible for the website.
Assessor internal communications
Our assessor internal communications is responsible for, as the name says, communication within the association. This means being responsible for promotion and making the monthly programmes. Additionaly, this assessor contacts some entities within the university structures. This assessor is also in several committees.
Assessor external communications
Our assessor external communications is responsible for communication outside of our association as well as social media. This can be getting into contact with other study or student associations, as well as our partners. This person is like the other board members in several committees. They also organize the LANGU day.