<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The third meeting of the “Formal and
Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory” (FEAST) colloquium will take
place at the University of Venice on June 9-10-11, 2014. FEAST is the
conference of the COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action
"Unraveling the grammars of European sign languages: pathways to full
citizenship of deaf signers and to the protection of their linguistic
heritage". For information about this COST Action:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT"><a href="http://www.signgram.eu/">http://www.signgram.eu/</a></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">FEAST is a regular forum to discuss formal
approaches to sign language grammar (in particular in the generative
tradition), experimental approaches to sign languages, and their
interaction. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The keynote speakers of Venice FEAST 2014 will
be:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Rachel Mayberry (University of California San Diego)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Stephen McCullough (San Diego
State <span lang="EN-GB">University)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br>
<span lang="EN-GB">Submissions are now
invited for Venice FEAST. Authors are
asked to submit their abstracts as e-mail attachments in .pdf format to the
following address: <a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it">venicefeast@unive.it</a>.
Files should be anonymized.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">We plan to have oral presentations (30 minutes
+ 10 minutes discussion) as well as a poster session (posters are particularly
welcome for contributions reporting experimental work). The poster session will
be preceded by a special session in which each poster presenter will be
allotted 5 minutes to introduce the topic of his/her poster.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
The anonymous abstract should include the title and indicate whether it is
intended for poster or oral presentation. The title of the paper, name of the
author(s), affiliation(s), surface mail address and e-mail address should be
included in the e-mail message. Abstracts should not be longer than two pages
in length (including tables, examples and references), in 12-point type, single
line spacing and 2,5 cm. margins. Abstracts will be reviewed by an external
panel and the reviewing process will be double-blind. At maximum two abstracts
(one of which must be co-authored) can be submitted.<br>
<br>
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The languages of the conference will be English
and ASL/IS. Interpreting between ASL/IS and English will be provided.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
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Conference dates: June, 9-10-11, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for submission: February 15th, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance/rejection: March
16th, 2014</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
The conference e-mail:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it">venicefeast@unive.it</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Conference web page:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://virgo.unive.it/venicefeast/">http://virgo.unive.it/venicefeast/</a> <b></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Presently we expect participation to the conference to be free. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Scientific
committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Chiara Branchini</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Diane Brentari</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Caterina Donati</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Karen Emmorey</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Geraci</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Meltem Kelepir</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Gaurav Mathur</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Roland Pfau</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Christian Rathman</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Josep Quer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="DE">Markus Steinbach</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Ronnie Wilbur</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Bencie Woll</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify">Organizing committee:</p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Chiara Branchini </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto</span></p>
<span lang="IT"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif">Josep Quer</font></span><br></div></div>
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