<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><br><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">The fourth edition of the ‘<b>Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign Language Theory</b>’ (<b>FEAST</b>) conference will take place at Pompeu Fabra University (Barcelona) on May 4-6, 2015. FEAST is the conference of the COST Action IS1006 ‘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 visit: </span><a href="http://signgram.eu/" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(229,142,90);line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent" target="_blank">signgram.eu</a><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">.</span></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><br></font><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">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.</font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>CALL FOR PAPERS</b></font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font><div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px">We invite abstracts for oral presentations (30 + 10 minutes), as well as for posters (posters are particularly welcome for contributions reporting experiment</span><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent">al work). </span><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent">The poster sessions will be preceded by a special session in which each poster presenter will have 5 minutes to give a short introduction to it.</span></font></div><div style="color:rgb(107,93,64);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:13px;line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span style="font-size:medium;line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent"><br></span></div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent">Abstracts should be no longer than two pages in length (including tables, examples and references), in 12-point type, single line spacing and 2.5 cm margins. Abstracts should be submitted through the FEAST 2015 Barcelona Easychair page: </span><font style="line-height:16pt"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feast2015barcelona" rel="nofollow" style="text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(229,142,90);line-height:16pt" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feast2015barcelona</a></font></font></div><div style="color:rgb(107,93,64);font-family:Georgia,'Times New Roman',serif;font-size:13px;line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><br></div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><b>EXTENDED DEADLINE for the submission of abstracts: February 15, 2015.</b></font></div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2015.</font></div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"> </font></span></div><div style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">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. </font></span></div></div><div><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><br></font></span></div><div><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><b>INFORMATION ABOUT THE CONFERENCE</b></font></span></div><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The keynote speakers at the <b>main session</b> <span style="line-height:17.1200008392334px;background-color:transparent">(May 4-5) </span><font style="background-color:transparent">of the FEAST 2015 </font><span style="line-height:25.6000003814697px;background-color:transparent">Barcelona</span><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent"> will be:</span></font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><ul style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut, USA)</font></span></li><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">Philippe Schlenker (Institut Jean Nicod, ENS-Paris/New York University)</font></span></li></ul><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">On May 6 there will be an <b>outreach session </b>featuring a presentation of the final product of the Action (<i>The SignGram Blueprint, </i>a guide to the preparation of comprehensive reference grammars for sign languages<span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">) and a discussion panel on the impact of linguistic research for sign language communities and Deaf signers (education, interpretation, acquisition, language deficits, language policies). This session will be attended by different stakeholders, such as representatives of Deaf communities, associations of sign language interpreters, and language policy-makers.</span></font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">The speakers at the outreach session will be:</font></p><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><ul><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">Benjamin Bahan (Gallaudet University, USA)</span></li><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut, USA)</span></li><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">Josep Quer (ICREA-Universitat Pompeu Fabra) & Carlo Cecchetto (Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca)</span></li><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">Christian Rathmann (Universität Hamburg)</span></li><li style="list-style-position:outside;list-style-type:circle"><span style="line-height:1.6;background-color:transparent">Bencie Woll (DCAL, University College of London)</span></li></ul></font><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><font style="line-height:14.2666664123535px">The languages of the conference will be English and ASL/IS. Interpreting between ASL/IS and English will be provided.<br><br></font>Registration for the conference is free of charge, but if you are not a member of the COST Action, you must send an email to the conference address to tell us you intend to attend. Signing an attendance sheet during the conference is required.</font></span></p><p style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span lang="EN-US"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000"><br></font></span></p><p style="margin:0px;background-color:rgb(255,253,248)"><span lang="EN-US" style="line-height:21.3333320617676px"><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif" color="#000000">For further information and updates about the conference, please visit the conference website: </font></span><span style="line-height:21.3333320617676px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><font color="#000000" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><a href="http://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast-2015-barcelona-2" target="_blank">http://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast-2015-barcelona-2</a> </font></span></p><div><br></div></div></div></div>
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