AFLiCo Conference - Announcement

Mon Jan 29 15:12:48 UTC 2007

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Second International Conference of the French Association for Cognitive 
Linguistics (AFLiCo), with special thematic sessions on “Typology, Gesture, 
and Sign” 

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

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!!! REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN !!!
!!! DEADLINE: APRIL 1, 2007 !!!
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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
A provisional 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
To register, please download the registration form from the website and send 
it back, together with your payment, to the conference secretary Emmanuelle 
Jablonski. To simplify the administration, we strongly encourage you to send 
us the spread sheet file (MS-Excel or OpenOffice) via email 
(emmanuelle.jablonski AT univ-lille3.fr). Alternatively, you send the 
printed form, duly filled out, via regular mail (Université Lille 3, UMR 
8163 STL, BP 60149, 59653 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France).
Your registration will only be valid after your payment has been received. 
(See below for methods of payment). 

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 

The conference fee covers the organisational costs of the conference and 
also includes a conference bag, a book of abstracts, name tag, coffee 
breaks, the concert, and a guided city tour (see below). Lunches and the 
conference dinner are not included but are offered at a modest price. It is 
strongly recommended to take the lunches offered by the conference, as it 
will be difficult to find other places to eat on campus (esp. on Saturday). 

METHOD OF PAYMENT
Unfortunately, no payment on site can be accepted!
 - Bon de commande (French institutions only)
 - Cheque (French cheques only)  -- see registration form for details
 - Money order or transfer  -- see registration form for details
 - Others (please contact the secretary) 

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 (pending funding). 

(2) CONFERENCE Dinner: Thursday, May 10, 20h30, Restaurant “Le Flore”, 
Lille.
The organisers have opted for a dinner formula that is affordable to all, so 
that also people on limited funding (particularly students) can also attend. 
The integration of students and young scholars is one of the main aims of 
the conference and of AFLiCo.
The diner will be held in the centre of Lille, in the restaurant “Le Flore” 
(Place Rihour), and will offer a menu of specialties of the North of France. 
The price for the diner is 30 euros (unlimited beverages during the meal). 

(3) CONCERT with French-Flemish Renaissance music, Friday May 11 , 21h00
If all goes as planned, 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, but open to the 
general public who will be asked a small entrance fee. 

(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 and on funding (once again, alas!). 

As already indicated, the welcome reception, the concert and the guided tour 
are not yet fully confirmed, still awaiting funding. We nevertheless ask 
that you indicate on the registration form whether you intend to participate 
in these events. 

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

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Susanna Bartsch
https://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/mitarb/homepage/bartsch/
bartsch at zas.gwz-berlin.de
Zentrum für allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie
und Universalienforschung (ZaS)
Centre for General Linguistics, Typology, and Universals Research
Schützenstr. 18
10117 Berlin
Germany
Tel. +49 (0)30 20192562
Fax  +49 (0)30 20192402
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