LCM4 Conference

[Aliyah MORGENSTERN]

Call for abstracts

Language, Culture and Mind (LCM 4)

http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/

The 4th International Conference on Language, Culture and Mind (LCM 4)  
will be held in Turku, Finland, at Åbo Akademi University, 21st-23rd  
June 2010. The goals of LCM conferences are to contribute to situating  
the study of language in a contemporary interdisciplinary dialogue  
(involving linguistics, psychology, philosophy, anthropology,  
semiotics and other related fields), and to promote a better  
integration of cognitive and cultural perspectives in empirical and  
theoretical studies of language.

Currently confirmed plenary speakers:

·       Associate Prof. Jukka Hyönä, University of Turku

·       Prof. Peggy Miller, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana

·       Prof. Cornelia Müller, Berlin Gesture Centre and Europa  
Universität Viadrina

·       Prof. Bradd Shore, Emory University, Atlanta

·       Prof. Dan Zahavi, Centre for Subjectivity Research, Copenhagen



The International LCM committee invites the submission of abstracts  
for presentations (oral and posters), on topics including but not  
limited to:

·       biological and cultural co-evolution

·       comparative study of communication systems

·       cognitive and cultural schematization in language

·       emergence of language in ontogeny and phylogeny

·       language in social interaction and multi-modal communication

·       language, intersubjectivity and normativity

·       language and thought, emotion and consciousness


Abstracts of up to 500 words, including references, should be sent to lcm4turku at gmail.com 
  as an attachment, in pdf or rtf format. Indicate if the abstract is  
for an oral or poster presentation. Note that there will be proper  
poster session(s), with one minute self-presentations to the audience  
in the plenary hall, just before the poster session. The deadline for  
abstract submission is Dec 15, 2009. Please see the homesite for  
additional information on abstract formatting.

Registration for the conference should be done through the online  
registration form; see http://web.abo.fi/fak/hf/fin/LCM4/registration.html 
.

The fees for the LCM conference are:

·       Early registration (until 1st March 2010): 140 euros

·       Late registration (from 2nd March 2010 to 1st May 2010): 165  
euros

·       Reduced registration fee (see registration form): 125 euros

·       The Finnish Evening 70 euros


The registration fee includes lunch and coffee breaks during the  
conference, admission to all scientific sessions, all congress  
materials and administration costs. The Finnish evening fee includes a  
steam ship trip, dinner and sauna (swimming), and Finnish tango music.


Important dates

·       Deadline for abstract submission 15 Dec 2009

·       Notification of acceptance 15 Feb 2010

·       Last date for early registration 1 Mar 2010

·       Last date for registration 1 May 2010

·       Final program publication 15th May 2010



The international LCM committee

·       Alan Cienki, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Language and  
Communication

·       Carlos Cornejo, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile,  
Psychology

·       Barbara Fultner, Denison University, Philosophy

·       Anders Hougaard, University of Southern Denmark, Social  
Cognition

·       Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, Linguistics

·       John Lucy, University of Chicago, Comparative Human  
Development and Psychology

·       Aliyah Morgenstern, Université Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3,  
Linguistics

·       Chris Sinha, University of Portsmouth, Psychology

·       Daniel Wolk, University of Kurdistan Hawler, Sociology

·       Jordan Zlatev, Lund University, Linguistics/Cognitive Semiotics


LCM4 Local organizing committee

·       Urpo Nikanne, Åbo Akademi University, Finnish language

·       Anneli Pajunen, University of Tampere, Finnish languge

·       Esa Itkonen, University of Turku, General linguistics



Aliyah MORGENSTERN
http://anr-leonard.ens-lsh.fr/





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