<div dir="ltr"><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Dear Colleagues,</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
please notice the extension of the deadline of submissions for LCM VI conference (<a href="http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/2013/12/27/extended-deadline-jan-20/" target="_blank">info</a>).</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
Thank you,</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Piotr Konderak</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
***</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Sixth International Conference on<br>
<strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Language, Culture and Mind</strong><br>June 24-26, Lublin, Poland</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
<a title="LCM VI" href="http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/</a><br>
Contact: <a href="mailto:info@lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl" target="_blank">info@lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl</a></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
Deadline for <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">abstract submission</strong> of individual papers and posters: <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Jan 20, 2014</strong>.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">The Sixth International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM VI) will be held on <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">24-26 June 2014</strong> at the Maria Curie-Sklodowska University in Lublin, Poland. It will be preceded by a <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Young Researchers Workshop</strong> on 23 June 2014 (same venue), where young researchers will present their ongoing dissertation projects and other work.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue (involving philosophy, linguistics, psychology, anthropology, semiotics and related fields), and to promote a better integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and theoretical studies of language.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Confirmed plenary speakers:<br><a title="Nancy Budwig" href="http://www.clarku.edu/faculty/facultybio.cfm?id=80" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Nancy <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Budwig</strong></a> (Clark University, Psychology)<br>
Henryk <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Kardela</strong> (Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Linguistics)<br><a title="Alan Rumsey" href="https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/rumsey-al" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Alan <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Rumsey</strong></a> (Australian National University, School of Culture, History & Language)<br>
<a title="Farzad Sharifian" href="http://profiles.arts.monash.edu.au/farzad-sharifian/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Farzad <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Sharifian</strong></a> (Monash University, Language and Society Centre)<br>
<a title="Beata Stawarska" href="http://philosophy.uoregon.edu/profile/stawarsk/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Beata <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Stawarska</strong></a> (University of Oregon, Philosophy)</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">The theme for LCM VI is: <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Inside/Out: Practice and Representation</strong></p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">While some focus on the representational nature of language and mind, others regard them as socially embedded and embodied practices. We encourage submissions that further investigate the dynamic between practice and representation and critically examine stereotypical or mainstream conceptions of representations as internal and practices as external.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">We invite abstract submissions for oral presentations, posters and symposia. (Please clearly indicate your chosen format with your submission.)</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Submission guidelines and formats:</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">• Oral presentations<br>Title, name, affiliation, 400 word abstract<br>
20 min presentation + 10 minute discussion</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
• Posters<br>Title, name, affiliation, 100 word abstract<br>1 minute oral presentation in the main lecture hall, preceding the poster session</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
• Symposia (submissions closed)<br>Symposium title, name and affiliation of symposium convener, an introduction of up to 400 words explaining the theme, all symposium abstracts, in suitable order.<br>90-minute symposia of 3 papers, allowing time for discussion. Up to two 90-minute symposia may be merged for proposals with 5-6 participants. Papers in each symposium should be thematically linked.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Symposium proposers should indicate whether, if a symposium is not accepted as a whole, they wish the individual abstracts to be considered as individual presentations (oral or poster)</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Deadline for abstract submission of symposia: Nov 30, 2013 (closed).<br>
Deadline for abstract submission of individual papers and posters: <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Jan 20, 2014</strong>.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
Abstracts should be submitted as .rtf, .odt or .doc attachments using EasyChair:<a title="LCM VI - submissions" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6</a>. In order to submit an abstract you have to use your existing EasyChair account or register using the link above. Detailed instructions can be found on the Language Culture and Mind VI conference website:<a title="Submission instructions" href="http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">http://lcm6.umcs.lublin.pl/participation/</a>.”</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Important dates:</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
• Deadline for abstract submission (symposia): 30 Nov 2013 (<strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">closed</strong>)<br>• Deadline for abstract submission (papers, posters): <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">20 Jan 2014</strong><br>
• Notification of acceptance (symposia): 15 Jan 2014<br>• Notification of acceptance (papers, posters): <b>28 Feb 2014</b><br>• Last date for early registration: 30 Mar 2014<br>• Last date for participant registration: 1 May 2014<br>
• Final program publication: 31 May 2014</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px;text-align:center">
<strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">***Young Researchers Workshop***</strong></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
The LCM VI Young Researchers Workshop is a satellite event of the LCM VI conference, aimed at graduate students and junior scholars conducting theoretical or empirical research in language and communication including, but not limited to cognitive, social, affective, embodied and/or cultural perspectives. The workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting results and foster interaction and debate in the context of interdisciplinary collaboration.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Young researchers in anthropology, biology, linguistics, philosophy, psychology, semiotics, semantics, discourse analysis, cognitive and neuroscience are invited to share, and thereby enrich, their study of human natural language and communication. A specialist’s comment on each accepted contribution makes the workshop a unique opportunity to receive expert feedback.</p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Contact: Roberto <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Bottini</strong> – <a href="mailto:lcm6.workshop@gmail.com" target="_blank">lcm6.workshop@gmail.com</a></p>
<p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">Abstract specifications:<br>1 page, 400 words, single-spaced, font size 12 pt, Times New Roman, 2.5 cm margins on all sides. Diagrams must fit in the page.<br>
Heading should include:<br>- Title of the paper<br>- Author(s) name<br>- Author(s) affiliation<br>- E-mail address of principal author</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
Deadline for abstract submission: <strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Jan 20, 2014</strong></p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
Abstracts for the Young Researchers Workshop presentations should be submitted as .rtf, .pdf or .doc attachments using EasyChair: <a title="YRW submissions" href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(116,51,153);background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lcm6</a>.<br>
A special track for YRW has been created within LCM6 EasyChair account.</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
LCM VI Local organization<br>· Piotr Konderak, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Cognitive Science<br>· Piotr Giza, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy<br>· Marcin Krawczyk, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy<br>
· Monika Malmon, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Philosophy<br>· Przemyslaw Sotowski, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Law</p><p style="border:0px;margin:0px 0px 24px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Georgia,'Bitstream Charter',serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px">
<strong style="background-color:transparent;border:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;vertical-align:baseline">International LCM organizing committee</strong><br>· Ana Margarida <b>Abrantes</b>, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture<br>
· Roberto <b>Bottini</b>, University of Milan-Bicocca, Cognitive Science<br>· Barbara <b>Fultner</b>, Denison University, Philosophy and Women’s Studies<br>· Peter <b>Hanenberg</b>, Catholic University of Portugal, Centre for the Study of Communication and Culture<br>
· John <b>Lucy</b>, University of Chicago, Comparative Human Development and Psychology<br>· Aliyah <b>Morgenstern</b>, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, Linguistics<br>· Esther <b>Pascual</b>, University of Groningen, Communication Studies<br>
· Victor <b>Rosenthal</b>, Institut Marcel Mauss-EHESS, Paris, Anthropology<br>· Chris <b>Sinha</b>, Lund University, Linguistics</p></div>
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