<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps">Call
for papers </span></b><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">FEAST 2018 (Venice, June 18-19-20)</span></b><b><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;font-variant-caps:small-caps"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The seventh meeting of the “Formal and
Experimental Advances in Sign language Theory” (FEAST) colloquium will take
place at the University of Venice on June 18-19-20, 2018. <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">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></span></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></span></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 the poster.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Abstracts
should be submitted in pdf format through the FEAST 2018 Venice Easychair page:
</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feast7">https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=feast7</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Files should be anonymized.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Video submission in IS or ASL are allowed
(maximum length 5 minutes). Those who would like to submit a video in sign
language should contact the organizers (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it">venicefeast@unive.it</a>).</span><span lang="EN-GB"><span></span></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. 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. <span></span></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">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: June, 18-19-20 2018<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Deadline for submission: <span style="color:black">February 18th, 2018</span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Notification of acceptance/rejection: <span style="color:black">March 26th, 2018</span><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
Contact: </span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black"><a href="mailto:venicefeast@unive.it">venicefeast@unive.it</a></span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></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></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:11pt;color:red"><a href="https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/feast-2018-venice">https://sites.google.com/site/feastconference/feast-2018-venice</a><span></span></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">Invited speakers will be:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">Meltem Kelepir </span><span lang="IT">(</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;background:rgb(255,253,248)">Boğaziçi
University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT" style="color:black;background:rgb(255,253,248)">Carlo Geraci </span><span lang="IT">(Institute Jean-Nicod)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Luca Des Dorides
(Istituto Statale Sordi di Roma)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="color:black;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Krister
Schönström (Stockholm University)</span><span lang="IT"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-GB">The official languages of the conference will
be English and ASL. Interpreting between ASL and English will be provided.<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Scientific
committee:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="IT"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Natasha Abner (Montclair State University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="IT">Gemma
Barberà (Pompeu Fabra University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="IT">Elena
Benedicto (Purdue University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Chiara Branchini
(Ca’ Foscari University of Venice)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Diane Brentari (University of Chicago) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti
(Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto (University
Paris 8/CNRS, University of Milan-Bicocca)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="IT">Debbie
Chen-Pichler (Gaulladet University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Brendan Costello (Basque center on Cognition, Brain
and Language)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Onno Crasborn (Radboud University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Kathryn Davidson (Harvard University)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Caterina Donati (Université
Paris Diderot, Paris 7)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Karen Emmorey (San
Diego State University) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT">Naama Friedman (Tel Aviv University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Geraci
(Institute Jean-Nicod)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Kadir Gökgöz (<span style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Boğaziçi University</span>)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Asli Göksel (</span><span lang="EN-US" style="color:black;background:rgb(255,253,248)">Boğaziçi University)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Annika Herrmann (University of Hamburg)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Jóhannes Jónsson (University of Iceland)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Meltem Kelepir </span><span lang="IT">(</span><span lang="IT" style="color:black;background:rgb(255,253,248)">Boğaziçi
University)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Vadim Kimmelman </span><span lang="EN-US">(University of Amsterdam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Helen Koulidobrova (Central Connecticut State
University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Diane Lillo-Martin (University of Connecticut)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="IT">Lara
Mantovan (Università Milano-Bicocca, Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial">Rachel Mayberry (University of California, San Diego)</span><span lang="EN-US"><span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Gaurav Mathur (Gallaudet University) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Richard Meier (University of California, San Diego)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-US">Carol
Padden (University of California, San Diego)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Roland Pfau (University of Amsterdam)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Christian Rathman<b> </b>(University of Hamburg)<b><span></span></b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Josep Quer (ICREA- Pompeu Fabra University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Philippe Schenkler (CNRS, NYU)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Markus Steinbach (Georg-August University
Goettingen)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span lang="EN-US">Gladys Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Ronnie Wilbur (Purdue University)<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="EN-US">Bencie Woll (University College London) <span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Organizing
committee:<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Branchini Chiara<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Anna Cardinaletti<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Carlo Cecchetto<span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify"><span lang="IT">Josep Quer<span></span></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"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align:justify;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><i><span lang="IT" style="font-size:11pt">The SIGN-HUB project has
received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation
programme under grant agreement No 693349.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:11pt"><span></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="IT" style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><img width="91" height="62"></span><br></p></div></div></div>
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