<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Call for papers FEAST 2016 (Venice, September 1-2)<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The fifth
meeting of the “Formal and Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory”
(FEAST) colloquium will take place at the University of Venice on September 1-2,
2016. For the coming four years, FEAST is the official conference of the
research project “</span><span lang="EN-US">The
Sign Hub: Preserving, Researching and Fostering the Linguistic, Historical and
Cultural Heritage of European Deaf Signing Communities with an Integral
Resource” (2016-2020) funded by the European Commission within the Horizon 2020
programme.</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">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"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><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.<br>
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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>
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Conference dates: September, 1-2, 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline
for submission: May 9, 2016</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification
of acceptance/rejection: June 20, 2015<br>
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The conference e-mail:<br>
<a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it">venicefeast@unive.it</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Conference
web page:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast-venice-2016"><span style="font-size:9.5pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;background-image:initial;background-repeat:initial">https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/home/conferences/feast-venice-2016</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"> </span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">The
official languages of the conference will be English and ASL. Interpreting
between ASL and English will be provided.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Although
there is no registration fee, people who plan to attend the conference are
asked to inform the organizers by sending an e-mail to: </span><span lang="IT"><a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it"><span lang="EN-US">venicefeast@unive.it </span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Scientific committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Chiara Branchini</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Diane Brentari </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Caterina Donati</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Karen Emmorey </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Carlo Geraci</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Meltem Kelepir</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Gaurav Mathur </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Roland Pfau</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Christian Rathman<b> </b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Josep Quer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Markus Steinbach</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Ronnie Wilbur</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Bencie Woll </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Organizing committee:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Branchini Chiara</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Josep Quer</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.8px">The SIGN-HUB project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No </span><span style="font-size:12.8px">693349.</span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal"><img src="cid:ii_15390bc3b9ea31eb" alt="Imatge inserida 1" width="57" height="40" style="font-size: 12.8px;"><br></p>
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