
<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">SignWriting List</FONT><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">May 25, 2005</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Dear SW List Members:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Four conferences include presentations on SignWriting in June and July:</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">----------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">1. June 10, 2005, Dourdan, France</FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">TALS 2005...Traitement Automatique des Langues des Signes</FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://tals.limsi.fr">http://tals.limsi.fr</A>/</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Several SignWriting presentations from Belgium, Brazil, France and other countries,</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">showing the use of SignWriting software in sign language transcription...</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">-----------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">2. June 30-July 2nd, 2005, Albuquerque, New Mexico</FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">National Deaf Latino Conference 2005</FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://www.n-d-l-c.org">http://www.n-d-l-c.org</A>/</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Two SignWriting workshops taught by Dr. Cecilia Flood</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">and teachers from the Albuquerque Public Schools</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">who participate in the SignWriting Literacy Project</FONT></DIV><DIV>with their Deaf students.</DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">----------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">3. July 17th-20th, Maastricht, Netherlands</FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">ICED 2005...20th International Congress on the Education of the Deaf</FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://www.conferenceagency.com/iced2005/index.htm">http://www.conferenceagency.com/iced2005/index.htm</A></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><B></B></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Keynote Speaker on July 20th: Stefan Woehrmann<BR>Topic: SignWriting</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Language and Literacy: reading and writing</FONT></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">----------------------------</FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">4. July 21-22nd, Brussels, Belgium</FONT></DIV><DIV><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">First European SignWriting Symposium (ESWS)</FONT></B></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><A href="http://signwriting.org/symposium/2005/">http://signwriting.org/symposium/2005/</A></FONT><FONT cla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