IASCL Conference in 2002

[Brian MacWhinney]

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   Request for Proposals to Host the 2002 IASCL Meeting
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The next meeting of the International Association for the Study of Child
Language (IASCL) will be held in July 2002.  We would like to encourage
people who are interested in hosting the conference to contact either Brian
MacWhinney (IASCL President, macw at cmu.edu) or Steven Gillis (IASCL
Secretary, gillis at uia.ua.ac.be) for informal discussions in the next weeks.

Formal conference proposals should reach either of use by the first of
January 1997.  These proposals should include the following information:

1. Location.
2. Proposed date (or the available alternatives from which the IASCL
Executive Committee can choose).
3. The composition of the local organizing committee (adding a brief CV of
the chief organizers); the composition of the conference committee; and the
composition of the program committee.
4. A particular topic or theme of the conference: in addition to a general
program, the conference may focus on a particular topic of general interest.
5. Available facilities:
- space for plenary sessions (ca. 600 people), parallel sessions (number
and size of rooms available), poster sessions.
- available equipment: overhead projectors, slide projectors, audio
equipment, computer projection, and video projection.
6. The available institutional support, including a reasonable estimate of
the amount of financial assistance that could be expected for
organizational purposes, travel and accomodation, supporting participants
from countries with severe currency restrictions.
7. Proposed registration fee (the fee includes the membership fee of the
IASCL).
8. Accomodation information: prices of hotels and the availability of
inexpensive student accomodations.  If the conference center and the hotels
are not exactly in one another's vicinity, please discuss the availability of
public transportation and availability.
9. A proposed schedule for mailing circulars, the call for papers,
the deadline for abstracts, meetings of the program committee, communication
of the provisional program, and advertising the conference on electronic
bulleting boards or in periodicals.
10.  Other aspects of the proposed conference site or activities that might
be relevant.
11.  Copies of the proposal to circulate to all 15 members of the IASCL
executive committee.