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</font><font size=4><b>Gesture: The Living Medium<br>
</font></b><font size=3>First Congress of the International Society for
Gesture Studies<br>
College of Communication, University of Texas at Austin<br>
June 5 - 8, 2002<br>
<br>
<b>Call for Papers:<br>
</b>As inaugural congress of the International Society for Gesture
Studies,<br>
this conference is intended to convene the “state of the art” in
research<br>
and theory on gesture and to serve as a forum for a broad and
lively<br>
interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, observations, and research
findings.<br>
One aim of the conference is to take stock of what we know about
the<br>
transformation of bodily experience and embodied knowledge into<br>
gestural symbolism and conceptual patterns in social interaction,
work,<br>
and other realms of everyday life. However, we invite proposals for<br>
papers, panels, and other programs from all disciplines, including<br>
technology and the arts, and convering all aspects of the practice
of<br>
gesticulation.<br>
<br>
The conference will take place on the beautiful campus of the University
of<br>
Texas at Austin, in and around a new dormitory designed to house<br>
conferences during summers and providing rooms for all conference<br>
participants. Accomodation will be appr. $40 per night (double
occupancy)<br>
or $75 (single occupancy); the conference fee will be appr. $100.
Austin<br>
TX. has a well-deserved reputation as a relaxed and friendly city as
well<br>
as the “Live Music Capital of the World”.<br>
<br>
<b>Program:<br>
</b>There will be plenary lectures, a special program “Gesture’s
Life-Worlds”,<br>
parallel panels, workshops, poster-sessions, and performances.
Time-slots<br>
for panels and other programs will be 1:45 hr. each; individual<br>
papers will be 20 min. plus 5 min. of discussion. Mornings will be
reserved<br>
for plenary programs.<br>
<br>
<b>Plenary speakers:<br>
</b>Geneviève Calbris (CNRS, Paris)<br>
Hubert Dreyfus (UC Berkeley)<br>
Merlin Donald (Queens U., Kingston/Ontario)<br>
Charles Goodwin (UCLA)<br>
Adam Kendon (Philadelphia)<br>
Scott Liddell (Gallaudet U.)<br>
David McNeill (U. of Chicago)<br>
Richard Shiff (UT Austin)<br>
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<b>“Gesture’s Life-Worlds” (Plenary Program):<br>
</b>John Haviland (Anthropology, Reed College)<br>
Curtis LeBaron (Communication, U. of Colorado)<br>
and TBA<br>
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<b>Deadlines:<br>
</b>for submission of proposals for panels, workshops, and other
programs:<br>
October 1, 2001;<br>
for submission of abstracts for papers and posters: December 1,
2001<br>
<br>
<b>Registration:<br>
</b>begins in August 2001.<br>
For detailed information please visit our website at<br>
</font><a href="http://www.utexas.edu/coc/speech/gesture/" eudora="autourl"><font color="#0000FF"><b><u>http://www.utexas.edu/coc/speech/gesture/</a><br>
</font></b></u><font face="Verdana" color="#000000">or contact us at:
<b>gestureconference@hotmail.com<br>
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