9.1822, Calls: Postgrad/U of Manchester, Humor & Gender

Tue Dec 22 14:27:53 UTC 1998

LINGUIST List:  Vol-9-1822. Tue Dec 22 1998. ISSN: 1068-4875.

Subject: 9.1822, Calls: Postgrad/U of Manchester, Humor & Gender

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1)
Date:  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:31:10 GMT0BST
From:  "Wiebke Brockhaus" <mflstwb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Postgraduate Events, Manchester (UK)

2)
Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:24:36 -0700
From:  Susan Ervin-Tripp <ervin-tr at cogsci.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:  International Humor Conference

-------------------------------- Message 1 -------------------------------

Date:  Mon, 21 Dec 1998 19:31:10 GMT0BST
From:  "Wiebke Brockhaus" <mflstwb at fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
Subject:  Postgraduate Events, Manchester (UK)

       The University of Manchester and
  the North-West Centre for Linguistics (NWCL)
                  announce
    Three Postgraduate Linguistics Events
          University of Manchester
               25-27 March 1999

The three events taking place in March 1999 have been organised
specially for postgraduate students, but they are also open to
anyone with an interest in the areas covered.

We start off with an afternoon's workshop on Lexical Functional
Grammar, which is followed by the First NWCL Postgraduate Training
Day, an event devoted to the discussion of how both data and theory
can be approached in syntax and pragmatics. The final event is the
Eighth Manchester Postgraduate Linguistics Conference, organised by
postgraduates for postgraduates. There will be up to 28 papers
lasting 20 minutes in all areas of linguistics, as well as a guest
speaker, Prof. Neil Smith of UCL, who will be giving a talk on
Dissociations and Modularity.  Proceedings will be published in the
PLUM series (Papers in Linguistics from the University of
Manchester). Postgraduates are invited to submit a one-page abstract
by 5 February 1999.

The registration deadline for all three events is 1 March 1999 and
further information is available on our website at
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/linguist/

Finally, a brief summary:

1. NWCL Lexical Functional Grammar Workshop
Thursday 25 March 1999, 2.00 - 5.00 pm
Speakers include: Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
Organised by: John Payne (University of Manchester)
Contact: John.Payne at man.ac.uk
Registration fee: GBP5.00 (students), GBP15.00 (staff)

2. The First NWCL Postgraduate Training Day
"Data and Theory in Syntax and Pragmatics"
Friday 26 March 1999, 11.00 am - 5.30 pm
Speakers include: Dick Hudson (UCL), Guy Cook (University of Reading)
and Nigel Vincent (University of Manchester)
Organised by: Diane Blakemore (University of Salford) and Wiebke
Brockhaus (University of Manchester)
Contact: W.Pickles at esri.salford.ac.uk or NWCL at man.ac.uk
Registration fee: GBP7.00

3. The Eighth Postgraduate Linguistics Conference
Saturday 27 March 1999, 9.00 am - 5.00 pm
Guest Speaker: Neil Smith (UCL)
Organised by: Ioanna Sitaridou (University of Manchester)
Contact: PGC at man.ac.uk
Registration fee: GBP5.00 (Late registration fee: GBP8.00)
Deadline for submission of one-page abstracts:
Friday 5 February 1999

-------------------------------- Message 2 -------------------------------

Date:  Tue, 22 Dec 1998 00:24:36 -0700
From:  Susan Ervin-Tripp <ervin-tr at cogsci.Berkeley.EDU>
Subject:  International Humor Conference

               The 1999 International Humor Conference
          sponsored by the International Society for Humor Studies

   The 1999 International Humor Conference is the eighteenth in a series
   of scholarly meetings on humor and laughter and the eleventh such
   meeting sponsored by the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS).
   The 1999 Conference is scheduled to take place from June 29 to July 3,
   1999 at Holy Names College in the Oakland Hills overlooking the San
   Francisco-Oakland Bay Area. For this conference, scholars, professionals,
   and students are invited to submit proposals for papers, posters, and
   symposia focusing on humor research in the arts and humanities as well
   as in the health, cognitive, and social sciences. We are also accepting
   proposals for workshops and for the following prescheduled symposia:

     Cognitive Science and Humor Research
     (Chair: Victor Raskin, Purdue University)

     The Connections between Humor and Health
     (Chair: Sven Svebak, University of Trondheim)

     The Sense of Humor: Further Explorations of a Personality
     Characteristic (Chair: Willibald Ruch, University of Duesseldorf)

     Wisecracking and Storytelling: Gender Differences in the
     Conversational Humor of of Children and Adults
     (Chair: Susan Ervin-Tripp, UC Berkeley)

   A sixteen-page brochure containing a full overview of the conference
   along with registration materials and information on how to submit
   proposals for papers, symposia, and workshops can be obtained by
   writing

     Martin D. Lampert, Chair
     1999 International Humor Conference
     Holy Names College
     3500 Mountain Blvd.
     Oakland, CA  94619-1699

   or calling in the United States, (510) 436-1699.

   Brochures and additional conference information can also be requested
   through the Internet from humor99 at hnc.edu or downloaded from the
   conference webpage at http://www.hnc.edu/events/humor99.

   The deadline for all proposals is March 1, 1999.

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