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LAST CALL CROATIAN ACADEMY OF and ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND ARTS ESPERANTO International Symposium on Language Planning and Lexicology Under the auspices and sponsorship of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Academy of Esperanto will organize an International Symposium on Language Planning and Lexicology, to be held in Zagreb, Croatia, July 28--30, 2001. The working languages are Croatian, Esperanto, English, and French. The opening ceremony of the Symposium will take place in the afternoon of Saturday, July 28, and the symposium will end in the afternoon of Monday, July 30, 2001. Venue The Illyrian Hall of the Croatian Academy od Sciences and Arts, Opaticka 18, HR-10 000 Zagreb, Croatia. Contributions Contributions to the symposium are invited. Prospective contributors should send their papers in electronic form to Professor Geraldo Mattos, <mattosMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issuesuper.com.br>, before the end of November 2000. In exceptional cases, contributions not in electronic form may be accepted, but only subject to prior agreement with Professor Mattos and only if they reach him at Rua Dr. Jo�o Motter, 98, BR-81210-260 Curitiba PR, Brazil, before the end of October, 2000. Accepted contributions will be published in a volume that will be ready before the Symposium. Participation Persons who wish to attend the symposium (even without giving a talk) are kindly requested to inform Professor Christer Kiselman, <kiselman
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Second announcement: CALL FOR PAPERS * The 8th NILO-SAHARAN LINGUISTICS COLLOQUIUM * will be held at Hamburg University, August 22-25, 2001 Scholars are invited to present papers covering both traditional topics of Nilo-Saharan linguistics as well as those related to text analysis and to literature in Nilo-Saharan languages (20 min. + 10 min. discussion). There are limited funds for scholars from African and from Eastern European universities wanting to actively attend the conference. Please contact the organizer early. Deadline for submission of paper + preliminary abstract: March 31, 2001. Participants will be notified about acceptance of paper by April 15, 2001. Deadline for final abstract (max. 500 words): June 30, 2001. Registraton via website (s. below) is strongly preferred. If you use ordinary mail, please also provide an e-mail address if possible. Registration and further information see Homepage at http://www.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/Nilo_Saharan_Coll/ - Email: nilosahMail to author|Respond to list|Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issueuni-hamburg.de - Slowmail: 8th NSLC 2001 (Mechthild Reh) Inst. of African & Ethiopian Studies, Hamburg University Rothenbaumchaussee 67/69 D-20148 Hamburg/Germany - Fax: 0049-40-428385675 - Tel.: 0049-40-428384873/4