CFP Resend Gesture: The Living Medium

[Kate Henning]

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Gesture: The Living Medium

First Congress of the International Society for Gesture Studies
University of Texas at Austin, June 5 - 8, 2002
www.utexas.edu/coc/speech/gesture/

Several times during our recorded cognitive history, gesture, this lively but
elusive medium of communication, became the focus of intense scrutiny and
debate: for example, among Roman rhetoricians who made precise recommendations
for the proper embodiment of public speech and saw in gesture the common
language of all humankind; in the Middle Ages, when gestural moderation
signified morality and elaborate gesture codes formed the basis for religious
and legal institutions; and during the Enlightenment when gesture appeared to
be the original language and sophisticated scenarios were proposed to explain
the evolutionary path from natural gesture to conventional spoken language.
All
the while, gesture occupied center-stage in the work of visual and performing
artists, in Asia and later in Europe, who developed their own practices of
communication on the basis of precise and complex analyses of body-motion in
social life; and it has always been the primary mode of common understanding
among the deaf.

Ours is another period in which gesture has become the topic of concerted
research and broad and sustained debate. The specialty of only a handful of
scholars just two decades ago, it is now subject to sustained investigation
by,
among others, interaction researchers seeking to identify gesture’s roles in
communication, collaboration, and social organization; anthropologists
interested in culture-specific gestural codes and practices; linguists
inquiring into the bodily foundations of conceptual systems and the
development
of gesture into full-fledged manual languages; and psychologists, cognitive
scientists, and neuroscientists who take gesture as a window into human
thought
and our ability to understand one another’s gestures as a clue to the
evolution
of mind. Gesture has also become eminently important to computer scientists
and
engineers trying to build intelligent machines. 

The conference Gesture: The Living Medium is intended to convene the “state of
the art” in research and theory on gesticulation and to serve as a forum for a
broad and lively interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, observations, and
research findings. As inaugural congress of the International Society for
Gesture Studies, it will also lay the foundation for a more organized
framework
of international cooperation. While there will be a focus on articulating
connections between social interaction, embodied knowledge, and symbol
formation, we invite papers, panels, and other programs from all disciplines,
including technology and the arts.

Location:
The conference will take place on the beautiful campus of the University of
Texas at Austin, in and around a new dormitory specifically designed to serve
as a conference site during the summer (San Jacinto dorm).
There will be plenary lectures, a special plenary program series “Gesture’s
Life-Worlds,” parallel panels and workshops (and potentially poster-sessions),
and performances. 

Registration:
Please register on-line on our web-site, if at all possible. Registration has
begun and will continue until the time of the conference. Registration for
accommodations begins in Spring 2002 (February or March); you will be notified
when you can register for a room.

Conference fees:
$ 100.00 (early bird, until April 30, 2002)
$ 120.00 (after April 30)
$ 50.00 (early bird) for students (please send a copy of a document showing
that you are currently enrolled as a student along with your payment)
$ 70.00 for students (after April 30)

Plenary speakers: 
Geneviève Calbris (Semiotics, CNRS, Paris)
Hubert Dreyfus (Philosophy/Cognitive Science, UC Berkeley)
Merlin Donald (Psychology, Queens U., Kingston/Ontario)
Charles Goodwin (Communication/Applied Linguistics, UCLA)
Adam Kendon (Anthropology, Philadelphia)
Scott Liddell (Sign Language/Linguistics, Gallaudet University)
David McNeill (Psychology, U. of Chicago)
Richard Shiff (Art History, UT Austin)

“Gesture’s Life-Worlds” (Plenary Program):
John Haviland (Anthropology, Reed College)
Curtis LeBaron (Communication, U. of Colorado)
and TBA

Scientific Committee: 
Janet Bavelas (Psychology, U. of Victoria)
Justine Cassell (The Media Lab, MIT)
Charles Goodwin (Applied Linguistics, UCLA)
Isabelle Guaitella (Linguistics, Aix-en-Provence)
John Haviland (Anthropology & Linguistics, Reed College)
Adam Kendon (Anthropology, U. Pennsylvania)
Satoro Kita (MPI/Cognitive Anthropology, Nijmegen)
Mark Knapp (Communication Studies, UT Austin)
Gene Lerner (Sociology, UC Santa Barbara)
David McNeill (Psychology, U. of Chicago)
Isabella Poggi (Linguistics, U. of Rome)
Roland Posner (Semiotics, TU Berlin)
Herman Roodenburg (History/Mertens Institute, Amsterdam)
Eve Sweetser (Linguistics, UC Berkeley)
Sherman Wilcox (Linguistics, U New Mexico)

Organizer and Program Chair:
Jürgen Streeck (Communication Studies, UT Austin)

Organizing Committee:
Kate Henning, Elizabeth Keating, Curt LeBaron, Kris Markman, Cornelia Müller,
Roland Posner, Serge Santi, Joel Sherzer 

Submissions:
Program proposals and abstracts of papers can be submitted on-line on our
web-site.

Deadlines: 
for submission of proposals for papers, posters, panels, workshops, and other
programs: January 1, 2002 (extended). 

Registration:
Please register on-line through the web-site.

For further information please visit us at
http://www.utexas.edu/coc/speech/gesture/

or contact us at: gestureconference at hotmail.com
or jstreeck at mail.utexas.edu

If on-line submissions and registration are a problem for you, please send us
all information (as requested on the web-site) by mail to

Gesture Conference
Department of Communication Studies 
CMA 7.114
The University of Texas at Austin
Austin, TX 78712-1089



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