CONF: Reminder deadline Cogling, France, 10-12 May, 2007

[Maarten Lemmens]

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ONLY 2 WEEKS LEFT TILL REGISTRATION DEADLINE
(APRIL 1, 2007)
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Second International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive 
Linguistics (AFLiCo)

University of Lille 3, Lille, France
10-12 May 2007
http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/colloque2007/

INVITED SPEAKERS (see the conference web site for titles and abstracts)
Jean-Marc COLLETTA (Univ. de Grenoble, France)
William CROFT (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Christan CUXAC (Univ. Paris 8, France)
Susan GOLDIN-MEADOW (Univ of Chicago, Chicago, USA)
Nini HOITING (Royal Effatha-Guyot Group Haren, Netherlands)
Scott LIDDELL (Gallaudet Univ., Washington, DC, USA)
Irit MEIR (Univ. of Haifa, Israel)
Dan SLOBIN (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Eve SWEETSER (Univ. of California, Berkeley, USA)
Phyllis WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)
Sherman WILCOX (Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA)

PROGRAMME
The detailed programme is downloadable from the conference web site.
There will be 4 parallel sessions, of which one is always a thematic 
session (devoted to sign, gesture or typology), depending on the day. The 
other sessions deal with different topics in cognitive linguistics. There 
will also be two special thematic sessions, one on the Lexical-Grammar 
interface (Lexical bootstrapping), the other on metonymy in gesture. There 
will also be a poster session on the first two days.

CONFERENCE VENUE
The conference is hosted by the University of Lille3, France. All talks 
will be held in the B building. For more info on how to come to Lille or to 
campus, please check the conference web site.

LANGUAGES
The official languages of the conference are French, English and French 
Sign Language (LSF), the latter at least for the first two days. Given the 
overall international character of the participants, English will generally 
be preferred.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURE
See the website for details.

REGISTRATION FEE
Upon registration, you will have to specify on the form which fee applies 
to you. To encourage deaf people to attend the conference, especially the 
first two days, when the sessions on sign language will be held, a special 
formula has been set up for them (not open to others):
- Regular : 80 euros
- Student : 40 euros
- Member AFLiCo : 60 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- AFLiCo student : 30 euros  (membership effective at time of registration !)
- Deaf person attending Thursday, May 10 & Friday, May 11: 50 euros

SATELLITE EVENT
On the day before the conference, May 9, 9h00 ­ 18h00, there will be a 
workshop on “Language and Space”, with renowned invited speakers (see the 
conference web site for full details).
The regular fee for this conference is 30 euros (including lunch and 
coffee), but people also registered for the AFLiCo conference only pay 15 
euros. Registration for the workshop is to be done via the same form as 
that for the conference.

SOCIAL PROGRAMME

(1) WELCOME RECEPTION & REGISTRATION: Wednesday, May 9, 17h00 ­ 20h00
Given the tight conference schedule and given that many participants will 
already have arrived, registration will be on the day before the 
conference. We plan to have a small welcome reception.

(2) CONFERENCE Dinner: Thursday, May 10, 20h30, Restaurant "Le Flore", Lille.
The price for the diner is 30 euros (unlimited beverages during the meal).

(3) CONCERT with French-Flemish Renaissance music, Friday May 11, 21h00
This concert will be a unique occasion to hear magnificent polyphonic 
Renaissance music from the region. It will further have a nice personal 
touch, in that it will be brought by the vocal ensemble OrSeCante from 
Leuven, Belgium, the choir of which one of the conference organisers, 
Maarten Lemmens, has been a member since 1991. The choir is specialized in 
Renaissance and Baroque music.
The concert would be free for the conference participants.

(4) GUIDED TOUR IN OLD LILLE, Sunday May 12, 10h00-12h00
To offer visitors a view of the beautiful city of Lille and its rich 
history, the organisers plan to have a guided tour of old Lille, the day 
after the conference. Whether this guided tour takes place depends on the 
number of people who sign up (minimally 15); the price is 8 euros per person.

CONTACT
- organisers : aflico at univ-lille3.fr
- secretary : emmanuelle.jablonski at univ-lille3.fr


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Maarten Lemmens
  Maître de Conférences habilité, Université Lille 3,
     U.F.R. Angellier (anglais), B.P. 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, 
France
  Membre de l'UMR 8163 Savoirs, Textes, Langage
         http://perso.univ-lille3.fr/~mlemmens
  Président de l'Association Française de Linguistique Cognitive
         http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/
  Editor-in-Chief "CogniTextes"
         http://aflico.asso.univ-lille3.fr/cognitextes/