From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:26:31 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:26:31 +0200 Subject: Open jobs in Zurich: Two PhD positions Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Doctoral assistant Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for two doctoral researchers whose main focus is the description of lesser-studied indigenous languages of the Americas and the morphological typology thereof. Applicants must have completed an M.A. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application and have an acute sensitivity to ethical issues raised by linguistic fieldwork in the region. All candidates must have advanced skills in oral and written English, and those applicants planning to work on Central or South American languages must be fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese by the time of application. Fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.           Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2011), with a salary (before taxes) of CHF 40,200 per year the first year, rising to CHF 43,200 the second year and CHF 46,200 the third and fourth years.   Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, a sample of written work, and the names of three referees.   Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Zúñiga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:27:19 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:27:19 +0200 Subject: Open job in Zurich: Post-doc position Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Post doc Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher whose main focus is morphological typology. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application. Candidates with a focus on linguistic typology and/or the description of lesser-studied languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas, will be given preference. Applicants interested in the crosslinguistic variation of grammatical and phonological word domains are especially encouraged to apply. Advanced reading ability in Spanish and Portuguese is an additional bonus; fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.                       Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2011), with a salary (before taxes) ranging from CHF 52,000 to CHF 72,000 per year according to experience and qualifications.   Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, links to papers or electronic versions thereof, and two letters of reference.   Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Zúñiga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:52:22 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:52:22 +0200 Subject: Correction: PhD positions in Switzerland (starting 02/01/2012) Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Doctoral assistant Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for two doctoral researchers whose main focus is the description of lesser-studied indigenous languages of the Americas and the morphological typology thereof. Applicants must have completed an M.A. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application and have an acute sensitivity to ethical issues raised by linguistic fieldwork in the region. All candidates must have advanced skills in oral and written English, and those applicants planning to work on Central or South American languages must be fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese by the time of application. Fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.           Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2012), with a salary (before taxes) of CHF 40,200 per year the first year, rising to CHF 43,200 the second year and CHF 46,200 the third and fourth years.   Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, a sample of written work, and the names of three referees.   Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Zúñiga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:53:03 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:53:03 +0200 Subject: Coorection: Post-doc position in Switzerland (starting 02/01/2012) Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Post doc Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher whose main focus is morphological typology. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application. Candidates with a focus on linguistic typology and/or the description of lesser-studied languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas, will be given preference. Applicants interested in the crosslinguistic variation of grammatical and phonological word domains are especially encouraged to apply. Advanced reading ability in Spanish and Portuguese is an additional bonus; fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.                                                   Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2012), with a salary (before taxes) ranging from CHF 52,000 to CHF 72,000 per year according to experience and qualifications.   Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, links to papers or electronic versions thereof, and two letters of reference.   Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Zúñiga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland   From mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu Wed Jun 8 17:13:49 2011 From: mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:13:49 -0700 Subject: GSCP 2012: Second Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Friday, June 03, 2011 6:56 PM -0300 From: Tommaso Raso To: infogscp2012 at gmail.com Subject: GSCP 2012: Second Call for Papers [Image: "src="] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS GSCP 2012 International Conference (complete call in attachment)                                                SPEECH AND CORPORA  in memory of Clarie Blanche-Benveniste   February 29 ? March 02, 2012 Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil GSCP has been one of the main European forums for the discussion of the interdisciplinary area related to the study of spoken communication in all its aspects ever since its inception in Naples (Italy) in 2003. GSCP is a rich opportunity for the advancement of scholarship not only in linguistic studies related to spoken language but also to interfacing disciplines, including new technologies. GSCP 2012 has as its main theme the relationship between speech and corpora studies and welcomes submissions about spoken corpora, their methodologies, data collection, objectives, validation techniques, besides linguistic analyses based on speech corpora. Conference site: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/GSCP2012/ Contact: infoGSCP2012 at gmail.com Important dates: Conference: February 29 ? March 02, 2012 Deadline for abstract submission: July 15, 2011 Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: September 20, 2011 Deadline for reduced fee registration: October 15, 2011 Deadline for regular fee registration: November 30 2011 Deadline for registration for participants with presentations: December 30, 2011 Deadline for submission of full paper (format information will be available in the conference site): April 15, 2012 Organizing Committee chair: Tommaso Raso (UFMG) Keynote speakers: Plínio BARBOSA (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Piermarco BERTINETTO (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Douglas BIBER (University of Northern Arizona) Philippe MARTIN (Université Paris Diderot) Simposium: “Emotion, attitude, illocution and modality” João A. MORAES (UFRJ) Klaus SCHERER (Université de Genève) Véronique AUBERGÉ (Grenoble Universités) Roundtable: The C-ORAL-BRASIL presentation ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Mon Jun 13 02:07:41 2011 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:07:41 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://vision.fr/index080a.html From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed Jun 15 04:59:49 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:59:49 -0400 Subject: Happenings and control Message-ID: Greetings 'netters. Yahgan has a number of different terms describing eventhood abstractly. One form, u:mama:shu:, appears to code events that overtake one without deliberate intent, and is based on mama:shu:, describing conveying of observations to another, what one has seen or heard, without much in the way of interpretation or deliberation. Another, u:chikari, codes events overtaking one that apparently were 'meant' (by some agency), based on chikari, involving planning etc. Do other languages any of you are familiar with similarly split 'happenings' by control in this manner? Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Wed Jun 15 13:55:58 2011 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:55:58 +1000 Subject: Final Call / Deadline approaching fast -- Workshop =?windows-1252?Q?=93Epistemic_perspective_and_social_cognition=94=2C_?=Dec 2011, Australia Message-ID: *FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS* *Workshop Epistemic perspective and social cognition* Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2011 DATE: 4 December 2011 LOCATION: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia CONTACT PERSON: Andrea Schalley CONTACT EMAIL: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au ALS 2011 WEB SITE: ALS 2011 SUBMISSION WEB SITE: *EXTENDED CALL DEADLINE*: 23 June 2011 *WORKSHOP TITLE:* Epistemic perspective and social cognition *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:* Social cognition is the capacity to represent and reason about agents and events in our social universe, and to interact with others by building a shared mental world (e.g. Goody 1995; Enfield & Levinson 2006). This workshop will look at how social cognition categories are grammaticalised across the world’s languages, and will in particular focus on the nexus of social cognition and epistemic perspective (cf., amongst others, Evans 2007). This includes, but is by no means limited to, the tracking of contents of other minds, the expression of knowledge sources (such as mirative and evidential marking), representations and reports of others’ speech and thoughts, or how social group role descriptors (such as kinship systems) depend on epistemic perspective. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in this new exciting area of typological research. We invite contributions that are evidence-based treatments of the epistemic perspective and social cognition nexus in a single language, but also those that showcase cross-linguistic comparisons or present overviews of a subarea such as the ones mentioned above. In addition, we welcome methodological discussions and presentations of fieldwork tasks used for such purposes. It is our hope that the workshop will invigorate and instigate a broad interest in the study of social cognition and how it is encoded in natural language. References: Enfield, Nick J., and Stephen C. Levinson (eds.) 2006. Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction. Oxford: Berg. Evans, Nicholas 2007. View with a view: Towards a typology of multiple perspective. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2005, 93-120. Goody, Esther N. (ed.) 1995. Social Intelligence and Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *SUBMISSIONS:* We invite submissions of abstracts of no more than 200 words (with up to 100 more words for references and examples). Please follow the submissions guidelines and submit electronically at . Presentations consist of a 20-minute lecture-style presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions/responses. *MEETING DESCRIPTION:* This half-day workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS 2011), the yearly meeting of the society. It will run alongside five other workshops (one of them a closely related one on “Modality in the Indigenous languages of Australia and PNG”) and general sessions. ALS 2011 is one of the events held as part of LangFest 2011, a series of events about language, languages and their relationship with the world held in Canberra, Australia. LangFest 2011 runs from 27 November 2011 until 9 December 2011. For more information on LangFest 2011, including information on the different events, the registration process, accommodation, transport, venues, visas, and the location, please cf. . *ORGANISERS:* The workshop is organized by the Australian Research Council Discovery project “Social Cognition and Language” (). Workshop convenors are Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Andrea Schalley (Griffith University). -- Dr Andrea Schalley Lecturer in Linguistics School of Languages and Linguistics Nathan Campus, Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 3735-4428 Fax: +61 7 3735-6766 Email: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au From matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi Mon Jun 20 12:47:17 2011 From: matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi (Matti Miestamo) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:47:17 +0300 Subject: Job ad: Fellowships at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Message-ID: Dear All, I'm forwarding a job ad that may interest some members of the list. The fellowships are available at different career stages, postdoc and above. Apologies for cross-postings. Best wishes, Matti Miestamo Begin forwarded message: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies invites applications for > 8–12 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER/ UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER/RESEARCH DIRECTOR POSITIONS > > for fixed terms ranging from one to three years, to begin on 1 September 2012. > The director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will determine the length of the individual appointments on the basis of the applicants’ research proposals. > > One of the vacancies is the Kone Foundation Senior Fellowship, which will be filled for the period 1 September 2012–31 July 2015. The fellowship is intended for research on issues of relevance to Finnish culture and identity. Successful applicants will take Finland’s international position and interaction into account in their research. > > The qualification requirement for all positions shall be a doctoral degree and the ability to conduct independent scholarly work. Appointees to the positions of university researcher and senior researcher shall also have evidence of scholarly research work as well as the ability to lead a research group and obtain supplementary research funding. When selecting the appointees, scholarly work outside Finland and evidence of international cooperation shall be given particular consideration. An appointee to the position of research director shall hold equivalent qualifications as an appointee to a professorship, but when considering qualifications, special attention shall be paid to scientific work, the efficient leadership of a research group, success in obtaining external research funding and evidence of international research cooperation. > > Successful applicants will have research experience in the human and social sciences as well as evidence of their ability to work in an international research environment of a high standard. Applicants must also demonstrate in their application how they plan to engage in the inter- and multidisciplinary cooperation conducted at the Collegium. > > Each applicant may submit only one application. The applicants may, however, use the same application form to apply for the Kone Foundation senior fellowship and/or the specially allocated thematic grant. The present call for applications continues last year’s application theme, which was mortality. The Collegium may select 2-4 researchers with a cross-disciplinary approach whose research interests are related to the theme of mortality. All applicants, including applicants for the Kone Foundation senior fellowship and/or the specially allocated grant, will also be taken into account in filling the open researcher positions at the Collegium. > > The salary will be based on the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointees will be paid a salary component based on personal work performance. > > The appointees to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will be academics at different stages of their careers. > > The application must be submitted electronically. The link to the application form will be posted on the Collegium website (www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure.htm) on 1 August 2011. > > The application period will begin on Monday, 1 August 2011 at 9.00 and end on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 at 15.45 local Helsinki time. The decision on the appointments will be announced on 7 February 2012 in the afternoon. > > We kindly ask that you submit any questions to the email address collegium-office at helsinki.fi. > > > *********** > Maria Soukkio > Programme coordinator > Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies > PO BOX 4 > FIN 00014 University of Helsinki > Finland > tel. +358 (0)9 19124974, +358 (0)50 4154503 > email: maria.soukkio at helsinki.fi > > From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Jun 22 21:30:29 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:30:29 +0100 Subject: SECOND CALL--4th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 4^th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE -- LONDON 2012 The 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4) will take place 10-12 July 2012 at King's College London. Confirmed keynote speakers: * Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) * Professor George Lakoff (University of California - Berkeley) * Professor Gilles Fauconnier (University of California - San Diego) * Professor Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) * Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh) * Professor Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University) We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics. These include, but are by no means limited to: * Domains and frame semantics * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy * Metaphor and metonymy * Mental spaces and conceptual blending * Cognitive and construction grammar * Embodiment and linguistic relativity * Language acquisition and language impairment * Language evolution and language change * Language use Cognitive Linguistics is an inherently interdisciplinary enterprise which is broadly concerned with the connection between language and cognition in relation to body, culture and contexts of use. We therefore invite interdisciplinary research that combines theories and methods from across the cognitive, biological and social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: * Linguistics * Psycholinguistics * Anthropology * Evolution * Paleoanthropology * Primatology * Neuroscience * Cognitive and developmental psychology * Discourse and Communication studies Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for question. Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted online at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org.uk/submission/ All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December, 2011. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2012. For further information, please contact the Local Organising Committee at uk-clc4 at kcl.ac.uk -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net Head of School School of Linguistics & English Language Bangor University www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Sun Jun 26 23:31:30 2011 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:31:30 -0700 Subject: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross postings. Please redistribute to other interested parties** ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------                            SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011)                           December 18th -20th, 2011                          Dubai (United Arab Emirates)                          www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011                         NEW SUBMISSION DUE:  July 17th, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. The AIRS 2011 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following: 1. IR Models and Theories 2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR 3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR 4. Multimedia IR 5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) 6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering) 7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR) 8. Arabic-Script based IR 9. Cross Language IR IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Due:    July 17th, 2011 * Notification of acceptance: August 25th, 2011 * Camera-ready due:    Sept 10th , 2011 * Registration:     November 1st, 2011 * AIRS2011:      December 18th-20th SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The AIRS 2011 proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume, so please follow the default author instructions available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 . In addition, please anonymize your paper to facilitate blind reviewing, and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally. Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2011 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected. Program Committee Chair Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai khaled.shaalan at buid.ac.ae Conference Co-Chairs Mohamed Val Salem, University of Wollongong in Dubai MohamedSalem at UOWDubai.ac.ae Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai FarhadOroumchian at UOWDubai.ac.ae Publicity Chair Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai AsmaDamankesh at UOWDubai.ac.ae Abolfazl AleAhmad, University of Tehran a.aleahmad at ece.ut.ac.ir Publication Chair Kathy Shen, University of Wollongong in Dubai Dr. Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran From kemmer at rice.edu Wed Jun 29 20:05:10 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:05:10 -0500 Subject: Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training programs: Central Asia, Southeast Europe Message-ID: Contact info on these programs is in the message. -------------------- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is now accepting applications for its 2012-2013 Title VIII Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training programs in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for these awards. The application deadline for all Title VIII fellowships is October 1, 2011. Please note that Title VIII Research Scholar Program and Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program must begin between June 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013; and must be completed by September 30, 2013. Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program offers fellowships for Spring 2012 and Summer 2012 only. Fellowships will be offered in three categories: *Title VIII Research Scholar Program: Provides full support for three- to nine-month research trips to Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include roundtrip international travel, housing and living stipend, visa support, medical insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the field. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Annual deadline: October 1st. *Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program: Provides full support for research and up to ten academic hours per week of advanced language instruction for three-to-nine months in Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include roundtrip international travel, housing and living stipend, tuition, visa support, medical insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the field. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Annual deadline: October 1st. *Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program: Provides fellowships for graduate students, faculty, and scholars to study language for spring 2012 and/or summer 2012 in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Open to students at the MA and Ph.D. level, as well as post-doctoral scholars and faculty, who have at least elementary language skills. For a full list of countries eligible for each fellowship, please see our website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ Funding for these programs is available through American Councils from the U.S. Department of State’s Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). All competitions for funding are open and merit based. All applications will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, or disability. Applications are available for download at: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ or by contacting the American Councils Outbound Office. Applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date. For more information, please contact: Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L St. NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: (202) 833-7522 Email: outbound at americancouncils.org Website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ ******************** Brita Ericson Fitzpatrick Information and Outreach Officer American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L St., NW Suite 1200 Washington DC 20036 http://www.aceurasiaabroad.org http://www.americancouncils.org http://www.acrussiaabroad.org http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:26:31 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:26:31 +0200 Subject: Open jobs in Zurich: Two PhD positions Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Doctoral assistant Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for two doctoral researchers whose main focus is the description of lesser-studied indigenous languages of the Americas and the morphological typology thereof. Applicants must have completed an M.A. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application and have an acute sensitivity to ethical issues raised by linguistic fieldwork in the region. All candidates must have advanced skills in oral and written English, and those applicants planning to work on Central or South American languages must be fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese by the time of application. Fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary. ???? ???? Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2011), with a salary (before taxes) of CHF 40,200 per year the first year, rising to CHF 43,200 the second year and CHF 46,200 the third and fourth years. ? Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, a sample of written work, and the names of three referees. ? Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Z??iga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:27:19 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:27:19 +0200 Subject: Open job in Zurich: Post-doc position Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Post doc Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher whose main focus is morphological typology. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application. Candidates with a focus on linguistic typology and/or the description of lesser-studied languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas, will be given preference. Applicants interested in the crosslinguistic variation of grammatical and phonological word domains are especially encouraged to apply. Advanced reading ability in Spanish and Portuguese is an additional bonus; fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.??? ? ????????? ? ???? Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2011), with a salary (before taxes) ranging from CHF 52,000 to CHF 72,000 per year according to experience and qualifications. ? Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, links to papers or electronic versions thereof, and two letters of reference. ? Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Z??iga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:52:22 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:52:22 +0200 Subject: Correction: PhD positions in Switzerland (starting 02/01/2012) Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Doctoral assistant Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for two doctoral researchers whose main focus is the description of lesser-studied indigenous languages of the Americas and the morphological typology thereof. Applicants must have completed an M.A. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application and have an acute sensitivity to ethical issues raised by linguistic fieldwork in the region. All candidates must have advanced skills in oral and written English, and those applicants planning to work on Central or South American languages must be fluent in Spanish and/or Portuguese by the time of application. Fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary. ???? ???? Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2012), with a salary (before taxes) of CHF 40,200 per year the first year, rising to CHF 43,200 the second year and CHF 46,200 the third and fourth years. ? Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, a sample of written work, and the names of three referees. ? Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Z??iga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland From fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch Wed Jun 1 07:53:03 2011 From: fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch (fernando.zuniga at spw.uzh.ch) Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2011 09:53:03 +0200 Subject: Coorection: Post-doc position in Switzerland (starting 02/01/2012) Message-ID: Job announcement Employer: University of Zurich Job location: Zurich, Switzerland Rank or title: Post doc Linguistic field(s): Morphological typology, Amerindian languages Job description: The General Linguistics Department at the University of Zurich invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher whose main focus is morphological typology. Applicants must have completed a Ph.D. degree in linguistics or equivalent by the time of application. Candidates with a focus on linguistic typology and/or the description of lesser-studied languages, especially indigenous languages of the Americas, will be given preference. Applicants interested in the crosslinguistic variation of grammatical and phonological word domains are especially encouraged to apply. Advanced reading ability in Spanish and Portuguese is an additional bonus; fluency in German is desirable (e.g. for teaching activities) but not necessary.??? ? ????????? ???? ???????????????????????? ???? Terms of employment: Full-time four-year contract (starting date: February 1, 2012), with a salary (before taxes) ranging from CHF 52,000 to CHF 72,000 per year according to experience and qualifications. ? Applications must include a curriculum vitae, a cover letter with a clear statement of research interests and a detailed description of research skills, links to papers or electronic versions thereof, and two letters of reference. ? Application deadline: 30-Sep-2011 Application address: Dr. Fernando Z??iga, General Linguistics Department, University of Zurich, Plattenstrasse 54, 8032 Zurich, Switzerland ? From mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu Wed Jun 8 17:13:49 2011 From: mithun at linguistics.ucsb.edu (Marianne Mithun) Date: Wed, 8 Jun 2011 10:13:49 -0700 Subject: GSCP 2012: Second Call for Papers (fwd) Message-ID: ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- Date: Friday, June 03, 2011 6:56 PM -0300 From: Tommaso Raso To: infogscp2012 at gmail.com Subject: GSCP 2012: Second Call for Papers [Image: "src="] SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS GSCP 2012 International Conference (complete call in attachment) ????????????????????????????? ???????????????? SPEECH AND CORPORA ?in memory of Clarie Blanche-Benveniste ? February 29 ? March 02, 2012 Faculdade de Letras, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil GSCP has been one of the main European forums for the discussion of the interdisciplinary area related to the study of spoken communication in all its aspects ever since its inception in Naples (Italy) in 2003. GSCP is a rich opportunity for the advancement of scholarship not only in linguistic studies related to spoken language but also to interfacing disciplines, including new technologies. GSCP 2012 has as its main theme the relationship between speech and corpora studies and welcomes submissions about spoken corpora, their methodologies, data collection, objectives, validation techniques, besides linguistic analyses based on speech corpora. Conference site: http://www.letras.ufmg.br/GSCP2012/ Contact: infoGSCP2012 at gmail.com Important dates: Conference: February 29 ? March 02, 2012 Deadline for abstract submission: July 15, 2011 Deadline for abstract acceptance notification: September 20, 2011 Deadline for reduced fee registration: October 15, 2011 Deadline for regular fee registration: November 30 2011 Deadline for registration for participants with presentations: December 30, 2011 Deadline for submission of full paper (format information will be available in the conference site): April 15, 2012 Organizing Committee chair: Tommaso Raso (UFMG) Keynote speakers: Pl?nio BARBOSA (Universidade Estadual de Campinas) Piermarco BERTINETTO (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa) Douglas BIBER (University of Northern Arizona) Philippe MARTIN (Universit? Paris Diderot) Simposium: ?Emotion, attitude, illocution and modality? Jo?o A. MORAES (UFRJ) Klaus SCHERER (Universit? de Gen?ve) V?ronique AUBERG? (Grenoble Universit?s) Roundtable: The C-ORAL-BRASIL presentation ---------- End Forwarded Message ---------- From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Mon Jun 13 02:07:41 2011 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 12 Jun 2011 19:07:41 -0700 Subject: (no subject) Message-ID: http://vision.fr/index080a.html From phonosemantics at earthlink.net Wed Jun 15 04:59:49 2011 From: phonosemantics at earthlink.net (jess tauber) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:59:49 -0400 Subject: Happenings and control Message-ID: Greetings 'netters. Yahgan has a number of different terms describing eventhood abstractly. One form, u:mama:shu:, appears to code events that overtake one without deliberate intent, and is based on mama:shu:, describing conveying of observations to another, what one has seen or heard, without much in the way of interpretation or deliberation. Another, u:chikari, codes events overtaking one that apparently were 'meant' (by some agency), based on chikari, involving planning etc. Do other languages any of you are familiar with similarly split 'happenings' by control in this manner? Thanks. Jess Tauber phonosemantics at earthlink.net From a.schalley at griffith.edu.au Wed Jun 15 13:55:58 2011 From: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au (Andrea Schalley) Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 23:55:58 +1000 Subject: Final Call / Deadline approaching fast -- Workshop =?windows-1252?Q?=93Epistemic_perspective_and_social_cognition=94=2C_?=Dec 2011, Australia Message-ID: *FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS* *Workshop Epistemic perspective and social cognition* Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society 2011 DATE: 4 December 2011 LOCATION: Australian National University, Canberra, Australia CONTACT PERSON: Andrea Schalley CONTACT EMAIL: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au ALS 2011 WEB SITE: ALS 2011 SUBMISSION WEB SITE: *EXTENDED CALL DEADLINE*: 23 June 2011 *WORKSHOP TITLE:* Epistemic perspective and social cognition *WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION:* Social cognition is the capacity to represent and reason about agents and events in our social universe, and to interact with others by building a shared mental world (e.g. Goody 1995; Enfield & Levinson 2006). This workshop will look at how social cognition categories are grammaticalised across the world?s languages, and will in particular focus on the nexus of social cognition and epistemic perspective (cf., amongst others, Evans 2007). This includes, but is by no means limited to, the tracking of contents of other minds, the expression of knowledge sources (such as mirative and evidential marking), representations and reports of others? speech and thoughts, or how social group role descriptors (such as kinship systems) depend on epistemic perspective. The workshop aims at bringing together researchers working in this new exciting area of typological research. We invite contributions that are evidence-based treatments of the epistemic perspective and social cognition nexus in a single language, but also those that showcase cross-linguistic comparisons or present overviews of a subarea such as the ones mentioned above. In addition, we welcome methodological discussions and presentations of fieldwork tasks used for such purposes. It is our hope that the workshop will invigorate and instigate a broad interest in the study of social cognition and how it is encoded in natural language. References: Enfield, Nick J., and Stephen C. Levinson (eds.) 2006. Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction. Oxford: Berg. Evans, Nicholas 2007. View with a view: Towards a typology of multiple perspective. Proceedings of the Berkeley Linguistics Society 2005, 93-120. Goody, Esther N. (ed.) 1995. Social Intelligence and Interaction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. *SUBMISSIONS:* We invite submissions of abstracts of no more than 200 words (with up to 100 more words for references and examples). Please follow the submissions guidelines and submit electronically at . Presentations consist of a 20-minute lecture-style presentation followed by 10 minutes for questions/responses. *MEETING DESCRIPTION:* This half-day workshop is part of the Annual Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society (ALS 2011), the yearly meeting of the society. It will run alongside five other workshops (one of them a closely related one on ?Modality in the Indigenous languages of Australia and PNG?) and general sessions. ALS 2011 is one of the events held as part of LangFest 2011, a series of events about language, languages and their relationship with the world held in Canberra, Australia. LangFest 2011 runs from 27 November 2011 until 9 December 2011. For more information on LangFest 2011, including information on the different events, the registration process, accommodation, transport, venues, visas, and the location, please cf. . *ORGANISERS:* The workshop is organized by the Australian Research Council Discovery project ?Social Cognition and Language? (). Workshop convenors are Barbara Kelly (University of Melbourne) and Andrea Schalley (Griffith University). -- Dr Andrea Schalley Lecturer in Linguistics School of Languages and Linguistics Nathan Campus, Griffith University Nathan, Brisbane, QLD 4111 AUSTRALIA Ph: +61 7 3735-4428 Fax: +61 7 3735-6766 Email: a.schalley at griffith.edu.au From matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi Mon Jun 20 12:47:17 2011 From: matti.miestamo at helsinki.fi (Matti Miestamo) Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2011 15:47:17 +0300 Subject: Job ad: Fellowships at the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies Message-ID: Dear All, I'm forwarding a job ad that may interest some members of the list. The fellowships are available at different career stages, postdoc and above. Apologies for cross-postings. Best wishes, Matti Miestamo Begin forwarded message: > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies invites applications for > 8?12 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCHER/ UNIVERSITY RESEARCHER/RESEARCH DIRECTOR POSITIONS > > for fixed terms ranging from one to three years, to begin on 1 September 2012. > The director of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will determine the length of the individual appointments on the basis of the applicants? research proposals. > > One of the vacancies is the Kone Foundation Senior Fellowship, which will be filled for the period 1 September 2012?31 July 2015. The fellowship is intended for research on issues of relevance to Finnish culture and identity. Successful applicants will take Finland?s international position and interaction into account in their research. > > The qualification requirement for all positions shall be a doctoral degree and the ability to conduct independent scholarly work. Appointees to the positions of university researcher and senior researcher shall also have evidence of scholarly research work as well as the ability to lead a research group and obtain supplementary research funding. When selecting the appointees, scholarly work outside Finland and evidence of international cooperation shall be given particular consideration. An appointee to the position of research director shall hold equivalent qualifications as an appointee to a professorship, but when considering qualifications, special attention shall be paid to scientific work, the efficient leadership of a research group, success in obtaining external research funding and evidence of international research cooperation. > > Successful applicants will have research experience in the human and social sciences as well as evidence of their ability to work in an international research environment of a high standard. Applicants must also demonstrate in their application how they plan to engage in the inter- and multidisciplinary cooperation conducted at the Collegium. > > Each applicant may submit only one application. The applicants may, however, use the same application form to apply for the Kone Foundation senior fellowship and/or the specially allocated thematic grant. The present call for applications continues last year?s application theme, which was mortality. The Collegium may select 2-4 researchers with a cross-disciplinary approach whose research interests are related to the theme of mortality. All applicants, including applicants for the Kone Foundation senior fellowship and/or the specially allocated grant, will also be taken into account in filling the open researcher positions at the Collegium. > > The salary will be based on the demands level chart for teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish universities. In addition, the appointees will be paid a salary component based on personal work performance. > > The appointees to the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies will be academics at different stages of their careers. > > The application must be submitted electronically. The link to the application form will be posted on the Collegium website (www.helsinki.fi/collegium/english/application_procedure/application_procedure.htm) on 1 August 2011. > > The application period will begin on Monday, 1 August 2011 at 9.00 and end on Wednesday, 7 September 2011 at 15.45 local Helsinki time. The decision on the appointments will be announced on 7 February 2012 in the afternoon. > > We kindly ask that you submit any questions to the email address collegium-office at helsinki.fi. > > > *********** > Maria Soukkio > Programme coordinator > Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies > PO BOX 4 > FIN 00014 University of Helsinki > Finland > tel. +358 (0)9 19124974, +358 (0)50 4154503 > email: maria.soukkio at helsinki.fi > > From v.evans at bangor.ac.uk Wed Jun 22 21:30:29 2011 From: v.evans at bangor.ac.uk (Vyv Evans) Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2011 22:30:29 +0100 Subject: SECOND CALL--4th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE Message-ID: SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS 4^th UK COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS CONFERENCE -- LONDON 2012 The 4th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference (UK-CLC4) will take place 10-12 July 2012 at King's College London. Confirmed keynote speakers: * Professor Stephen Levinson (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics) * Professor George Lakoff (University of California - Berkeley) * Professor Gilles Fauconnier (University of California - San Diego) * Professor Elena Lieven (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) * Professor Martin Pickering (University of Edinburgh) * Professor Lawrence Barsalou (Emory University) We invite the submission of abstracts (for paper or poster presentations) addressing all aspects of Cognitive Linguistics. These include, but are by no means limited to: * Domains and frame semantics * Categorisation, prototypes and polysemy * Metaphor and metonymy * Mental spaces and conceptual blending * Cognitive and construction grammar * Embodiment and linguistic relativity * Language acquisition and language impairment * Language evolution and language change * Language use Cognitive Linguistics is an inherently interdisciplinary enterprise which is broadly concerned with the connection between language and cognition in relation to body, culture and contexts of use. We therefore invite interdisciplinary research that combines theories and methods from across the cognitive, biological and social sciences. These include, but are not limited to: * Linguistics * Psycholinguistics * Anthropology * Evolution * Paleoanthropology * Primatology * Neuroscience * Cognitive and developmental psychology * Discourse and Communication studies Talks will be allocated 20 minutes, plus 10 minutes for question. Posters will stay up for a day and be allocated to dedicated, timetabled sessions. The language of the conference is English. Abstracts of no more than 300 words (excluding references) should be submitted online at http://www.cognitivelinguistics.org.uk/submission/ All abstracts will be subject to double-blind peer review by an international Scientific Committee. The deadline for abstract submission is 15 December, 2011. Notification of acceptance decisions will be communicated by 15 February 2012. For further information, please contact the Local Organising Committee at uk-clc4 at kcl.ac.uk -- Prof. Vyv Evans Professor of Linguistics www.vyvevans.net Head of School School of Linguistics & English Language Bangor University www.bangor.ac.uk/linguistics General Editor of 'Language & Cognition' A Mouton de Gruyter journal www.languageandcognition.net From alifarghaly at yahoo.com Sun Jun 26 23:31:30 2011 From: alifarghaly at yahoo.com (Ali Farghaly) Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:31:30 -0700 Subject: Second Call for Papers Message-ID: **Apologies for cross postings. Please redistribute to other interested parties** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ?????????????????????????? SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS The Seventh Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011) ????????????????????????? December 18th -20th, 2011 ???????????????????????? Dubai (United Arab Emirates) ???????????????????????? www.uowdubai.ac.ae/airs2011 ??????????????????????? NEW SUBMISSION DUE:? July 17th, 2011 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS) aims to bring together researchers and developers to exchange new ideas and latest achievements in the field of information retrieval (IR). The scope of the conference covers applications, systems, technologies and theory aspects of information retrieval in text, audio, image, video, and multimedia data. The AIRS 2011 welcomes submissions of original papers in the broad field of information retrieval. Technical issues covered include, but are not limited to the following: 1. IR Models and Theories 2. User Study, IR Evaluation, and Interactive IR 3. Web IR, Scalability, and Adversarial IR 4. Multimedia IR 5. NLP for IR (eg. Cross-/Multi- Language IR, Question Answering, Summarization, Information Extraction) 6. Machine Learning and Data Mining for IR (eg. Learning to Rank, Classification, Clustering) 7. IR Applications (eg. Digital Libraries, Vertical Search, Mobile IR) 8. Arabic-Script based IR 9. Cross Language IR IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Due:????July 17th, 2011 * Notification of acceptance:?August 25th, 2011 * Camera-ready due:????Sept 10th , 2011 * Registration:?????November 1st, 2011 * AIRS2011:??????December 18th-20th SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The AIRS 2011 proceedings will be published as an LNCS volume, so please follow the default author instructions available at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 . In addition, please anonymize your paper to facilitate blind reviewing, and make sure your paper is no longer than 12 pages in the LNCS format. Submissions that do not follow these guidelines will be rejected unconditionally. Duplicate submissions (the same paper being submitted to AIRS 2011 and to another conference at the same time) are strictly forbidden; if detected, these submissions will be unconditionally rejected. Program Committee Chair Khaled Shaalan, British University in Dubai khaled.shaalan at buid.ac.ae Conference Co-Chairs Mohamed Val Salem, University of Wollongong in Dubai MohamedSalem at UOWDubai.ac.ae Farhad Oroumchian, University of Wollongong in Dubai FarhadOroumchian at UOWDubai.ac.ae Publicity Chair Asma Damankesh, University of Wollongong in Dubai AsmaDamankesh at UOWDubai.ac.ae Abolfazl AleAhmad, University of Tehran a.aleahmad at ece.ut.ac.ir Publication Chair Kathy Shen, University of Wollongong in Dubai Dr. Azadeh Shakery, University of Tehran From kemmer at rice.edu Wed Jun 29 20:05:10 2011 From: kemmer at rice.edu (Suzanne Kemmer) Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 15:05:10 -0500 Subject: Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training programs: Central Asia, Southeast Europe Message-ID: Contact info on these programs is in the message. -------------------- American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS is now accepting applications for its 2012-2013 Title VIII Grants for Research and Advanced Language Training programs in Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Moldova, Russia, and Ukraine. Only U.S. citizens are eligible for these awards. The application deadline for all Title VIII fellowships is October 1, 2011. Please note that Title VIII Research Scholar Program and Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program must begin between June 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013; and must be completed by September 30, 2013. Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program offers fellowships for Spring 2012 and Summer 2012 only. Fellowships will be offered in three categories: *Title VIII Research Scholar Program: Provides full support for three- to nine-month research trips to Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include roundtrip international travel, housing and living stipend, visa support, medical insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the field. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Annual deadline: October 1st. *Title VIII Combined Research and Language Training Program: Provides full support for research and up to ten academic hours per week of advanced language instruction for three-to-nine months in Russia, Central Asia, the South Caucasus, Southeast Europe, Ukraine, and Moldova. Fellowships include roundtrip international travel, housing and living stipend, tuition, visa support, medical insurance, archive access, and logistical support in the field. Open to U.S. graduate students, post-doctoral scholars, and faculty. Annual deadline: October 1st. *Title VIII Southeast European Language Training Program: Provides fellowships for graduate students, faculty, and scholars to study language for spring 2012 and/or summer 2012 in Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, and Serbia. Open to students at the MA and Ph.D. level, as well as post-doctoral scholars and faculty, who have at least elementary language skills. For a full list of countries eligible for each fellowship, please see our website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ Funding for these programs is available through American Councils from the U.S. Department of State?s Program for Research and Training on Eastern Europe and the Independent States of the Former Soviet Union (Title VIII). All competitions for funding are open and merit based. All applications will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, marital status, political affiliation, or disability. Applications are available for download at: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ or by contacting the American Councils Outbound Office. Applications must be postmarked by the application deadline date. For more information, please contact: Russian and Eurasian Outbound Programs American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L St. NW, Suite 1200 Washington, DC 20036 Telephone: (202) 833-7522 Email: outbound at americancouncils.org Website: http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org/ ******************** Brita Ericson Fitzpatrick Information and Outreach Officer American Councils for International Education: ACTR/ACCELS 1828 L St., NW Suite 1200 Washington DC 20036 http://www.aceurasiaabroad.org http://www.americancouncils.org http://www.acrussiaabroad.org http://researchfellowships.americancouncils.org