<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">SignWriting List</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">August 2, 2011</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial">A message posted on the Sign Language Linguists List (SLLING) ... </font><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">Perhaps someone on our SignWriting List will be interested in this workshop?... I know there are several List members writing sign languages from the African continent - Val ;-)</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; "><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; ">---------</span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b><br></b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>From: </b></span>"Rezenet Moges" <<a href="mailto:rezearcher@ERINAD.ORG">rezearcher@ERINAD.ORG</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>Date: </b></span>July 22, 2011 7:40:55 AM PDT</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>To: </b></span><a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>Subject: </b></span><b>Call for Paper - 2nd Sign Language Workshop @ WOCAL-7</b></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Helvetica; "><span style="color: #7f7f7f"><b>Reply-To: </b></span>"linguists interested in signed languages" <<a href="mailto:SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU">SLLING-L@LISTSERV.VALENCIACOLLEGE.EDU</a>></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><br></div>
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<td valign="top" style="width: 769.0px"><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">It is with great pleasure that our committee is announcing a call for paper for 2nd Sign Language Workshop, associating with World Congress of African Linguistics-7 (WOCAL-7).</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> The conference date of WOCAL-7 is August 20th through 24th, 2012 and the workshop will be one full-day on August 21st. This event will take place at University of Buea, in Cameroon, Africa.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> The workshop aims to foster international exchange and cooperation in African Sign Language and d/Deaf community research and to contribute to further development of the field.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> The workshop will be accessible for all people and we encourage African Deaf academics and Deaf community leaders to participate in the workshop and present their work. For the first time this exciting event is taking place in Africa, which is a unique opportunity for professionals, academics and Deaf community members in this part of the world to get together and share their experiences and expertise!</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> The Sign Language Workshop aims to focus on (but not necessarily limited to) sign language description and documentation, deaf community development, deaf education, and the preservation of deaf cultural heritage in Africa. We also provide room for a focus on the Cameroon context. We welcome papers on:</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> 1) Sign language documentation and linguistic analysis</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> 2) Sign languages and gestures in social, cultural, and political contexts</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> 3) Emergence and development of sign languages and deaf communities</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> 4) Sign language in (deaf) education and interpreting training</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> 5) Cameroon Sign Language and the Cameroon Deaf Community</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> Languages:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> International Sign is the preferred workshop language. Languages of the workshop include International Sign, Cameroon Sign Language, American Sign Language, French Sign Language, French, and English.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> Abstract submission formats:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> There are two options of submitting your abstract(s) in a different format. The conventional method is textual format, with max. 500 words and two languages are acceptable for typed-abstract submissions: English and French. Secondly, the abstract submission may be translated in a signed language on a video format. The maximum of a videotaped abstract should go up to 5-minute long. Acceptable sign languages for signed-translation video submissions are: American Sign Language, Cameroonian Sign Language, French Sign Language, and International Signs.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">Please email your abstracts to SignLanguageWorkshopWOCAL7 @ gmail . com or use large-file web services--dropbox or yousendit--to send your videos.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> Important dates:</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> The deadline of the abstract submission is on October 31st, 2011.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> Notification of paper acceptance will be on January 31st, 2012.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> For more information or other translations (en français, International Signs or American Sign Language (ASL)), please view the website of this event at <a href="http://wocal7.erinad.org">http://wocal7.erinad.org</a></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> If you have any question, please email to the committee at SignLanguageWorkshopWOCAL7 @ gmail . com .</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial"> We will appreciate it very much if this announcement is circulated with your colleagues, students, d/Deaf communities or other universities, particularly those with interests of African Studies, Anthropology, Linguistics and International Development.</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial; min-height: 18.0px"><br></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">On behalf of the organizing committee,</p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Arial; "> <br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 16.0px 0.0px; font: 16.0px Arial">Dr. Gratien G. Atindogbé, Dr. Goedele De Clerk, Sam Lutalo-Kiingi, Rezenet Moges, and Dr. Victoria Nyst</p>
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Val ;-)<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Valerie Sutton</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">SignWriting List moderator</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:sutton@signwriting.org">sutton@signwriting.org</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Post Messages to the SignWriting List:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><a href="mailto:sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu">sw-l@listserv.valenciacollege.edu</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">SignWriting List Archives & Home Page</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><a href="http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist">http://www.signwriting.org/forums/swlist</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; ">Join, Leave or Change How You Receive SW List Messages</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: medium; "><a href="http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1">http://listserv.valenciacollege.edu/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=SW-L&A=1</a></span></div></div></span></span>
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