17.3615, Calls: Applied Ling, Cognitive Science/UK; General Ling/Canada

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Subject: 17.3615, Calls: Applied Ling,  Cognitive Science/UK;  General Ling/Canada

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1)
Date: 06-Dec-2006
From: June Luchjenbroers < junel at bangor.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference 

2)
Date: 06-Dec-2006
From: Anna Limanni < anna.limanni at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Levy-Wasteney's 27th Annual Graduate Symposium 

	
-------------------------Message 1 ---------------------------------- 
Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:11:01
From: June Luchjenbroers < junel at bangor.ac.uk >
Subject: 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference 
 


Full Title: 2nd UK Cognitive Linguistics Association Conference 
Short Title: NDCL-2 

Date: 27-Aug-2007 - 30-Aug-2007
Location: Cardiff, Wales, United Kingdom 
Contact Person: June Luchjenbroers
Meeting Email: ndcl at cardiff.ac.uk
Web Site: http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/encap/ncdl/index.html 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Cognitive Science 

Call Deadline: 05-Feb-2007 

Meeting Description:

Papers dealing with any facet of cognitive linguistics research are welcome, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues. We also encourage papers that relate to the secondary conference theme, "Cognitive Linguistics, Applied"; as well as the primary theme, "New Directions". 

Second Call for Papers and Posters

Keynote Speakers:

Lynne Cameron,   Open University, U.K.
Seana Coulson,   Univ. California, San Diego, USA
Klaus Panther, Univ. Hamburg, Germany
Chris Sinha,   Univ. Portsmouth, England, UK
Eve Sweetser,   Univ. California, Berkeley, USA
Arie Verhagen,   Leiden Univ., Netherlands

We invite scholars of diverse disciplines and languages to contribute to this conference. Papers dealing with any facet of cognitive linguistics research are welcome, including research on meaning, conceptual structure, conceptual operations, cognitive processing, grammar, acquisition, language use, discourse function, and other issues.

Types of Submissions & submission deadlines
(i) theme session: Mon. 8 January 2007
(ii) paper presentation: Mon. 5 February 2007
(iii) poster presentation: 5 February 2007
(iv) paper or poster: 5 February 2007

We also hope to publish papers given at this conference.

Coordinators:	
     June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK
     Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK

Organising Committee::
     Michelle Aldridge, Cardiff Univ. WALES UK
     June Luchjenbroers, Univ. Wales Bangor WALES UK
     Vyvyan Evans, Centre in Language, Communication
                   & Cognition, Univ. Brighton,
     Esther Pascual, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands


	
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Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2006 15:11:32
From: Anna Limanni < anna.limanni at utoronto.ca >
Subject: Levy-Wasteney's 27th Annual Graduate Symposium 

	

Full Title: Levy-Wasteney's 27th Annual Graduate Symposium 

Date: 23-Mar-2007 - 24-Mar-2007
Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada 
Contact Person: Anna Limanni
Meeting Email: spgsa.symposium at gmail.com
Web Site: http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/spanish_portuguese/lwsymposium/ 

Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics 

Language Family(ies): Romance 

Call Deadline: 26-Jan-2007 

Meeting Description:

Witnessing Change: A Multi-disciplinary Perspective 

The University of Toronto's Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students' Association announces a

Levy-Wasteney's 27th Annual Graduate Symposium
University of Toronto
March 23rd & 24th, 2007

Witnessing Change:
A Multi-Disciplinary Perspective

The Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students' Association of the University of Toronto is pleased to announce its 27th Levy-Wasteney's Annual Graduate Symposium, which will include the following distinguished guest speakers:

Guest of Honour: 	

Dr. María del Carmen Sillato
Department of Spanish and Latin American Studies, 
University of 	Waterloo
Presenting ''Función del testimonio en la (re) construcción de la memoria histórica'' (The function of testimony in the (re)construction of historic memory)

Special Guest: 	
Marina Nemat
Research Assistant, Women's Studies, University of Toronto
Presenting her memoir ''Prisoner of Tehran'' (Penguin Canada, May 2007)

We welcome proposals for 20-minute presentations (with an additional 10 minutes allotted for questions) on the theme of ''Witnessing Change.'' In order to integrate different disciplines, we encourage proposals from any of the following fields: literature, linguistics, philosophy, history, politics, cultural studies, cinema, and visual arts. Presentations should focus on, but are not limited to, the Spanish and Portuguese speaking world.  Suggested, but not exclusive, topics include: 
- testimony
- cultural memory and history
- historicity and fiction
- the changing ''Canon''
- hybridity, muticulturality and heterogeneity
- discourses of travel
- dislocation and border-crossings
- politics of race and gender
- language contact, variation and change
- emerging technologies and new media

Abstracts in Spanish, Portuguese, English or French must not exceed 500 words and should be accompanied by a short CV of the author.

Deadline for submissions is Friday, January 26th, 2007.  

Email:	spgsa.symposium at gmail.com (plain text, Microsoft Word, RTF or PDF formats)

Mail:	Spanish and Portuguese Graduate Students' Association 
c/o Levy-Wasteney's Symposium 2007 
University of Toronto 
Victoria College, Room 208 
91 Charles Street West 
Toronto, ON M5S 1K7
 



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