LINGUIST List 12.54

Thu Jan 11 2001

Calls: New Zealand Ling Soc, Storytelling/Americas

Editor for this issue: Jody Huellmantel <jodylinguistlist.org>

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1. Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, New Zealand Ling Soc Conference
2. Irene Blayer, Storytelling in the Americas Conference

You are warmly invited to Christchurch from 30 August to 1 September 
2001 for the next New Zealand Linguistic Society conference! (This 
timing should suit people attending the 15th International Conference 
on Historical Linguistics in Melbourne, Australia, on 13-17 August, 
and who would like to holiday in New Zealand or Australia between the 
two conferences.)

More information, and a form to register your interest, is at the 
following URL:
http://www.massey.ac.nz/~wwlingui/NZLS/01Conf.html
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New Zealand Linguistic Society Conference, 2001

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The conference will take place from 30 August to 1 September 2001. 
The sole (or main) venue will be College House, Ilam Road, 
Christchurch (a hall of residence adjoining the campus of the 
University of Canterbury). The conference will begin at about 9.00 
am on 30 August and end about mid-afternoon on 1 September.

If you are interested in participating, please print off the form on 
the second page (below), fill it in, and mail it to:
Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Department of Linguistics, University of 
Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, Christchurch, New Zealand (e-mail: 
a.c-mccling.canterbury.ac.nz)

Papers are welcomed on any area of linguistics. We expect that most 
papers will occupy 45-minute time slots (i.e. about 30 minutes plus 
15 minutes for discussion), but we will be able to accommodate 
shorter papers (30-minutes time slots), and perhaps also longer ones, 
as well. Please indicate any special requirements below. You are 
invited to indicate a provisional title now, and supply an abstract 
before 7 June 2001.

The registration fee (which includes morning and afternoon tea and 
lunch, and welcoming drinks and nibbles) is:
 Normal Earlybird discount (by 1 May 2001)
Students $72.00 $62.00
Nonstudents $100.00 $90.00

Accommodation per night (bed and continental breakfast) at College 
House will cost $38.00.

Dinner is not included in the registration fee or accommodation 
charge. There will be a conference dinner on one of the nights, of 
which details and cost will be announced later. On other nights, 
conference-goers will have the choice of dining at one of several 
venues on campus, or near the campus in Ilam, or elsewhere in 
Christchurch.

________ [tear-off portion] _______

NEW ZEALAND LINGUISTIC SOCIETY, 30 AUGUST TO 1 SEPTEMBER 2001
FORM FOR EXPRESSION OF INTEREST (Please indicate YES/NO as appropriate)

Name:	 _____________________________________________________

Address: _____________________________________________________

	_____________________________________________________

	_____________________________________________________

Phone:	 _______________

E-mail:	 _____________________________________________________

Fax:	 _______________

I would like to give a paper YES/NO
Provisional title:

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________

I would like the time slot for the paper to be:
45 minutes YES/NO
other (please specify): ______________

I enclose my registration fee:
Student ($62.00 before 1 May 01) YES/NO ____
Nonstudent ($90.00 before 1 May 01) YES/NO ____
OR
I will pay my registration fee later YES/NO

I would like to reserve accommodation at College House ($38.00 per 
night, including breakfast) YES/NO
for the night of:
	29 August	 ____
	30 August	 ____
	31 August	 ____
	1 September	 ____
OR
I will probably reserve accommodation at College House later YES/NO
OR
I will probably not need accommodation at College House YES/NO

Total amount enclosed	 ____

Please make cheques payable to the Linguistic Society of New Zealand, 
Canterbury Branch. All amounts are in New Zealand dollars. Cheques 
for equivalent amounts in other currencies can also be accepted.

Please mail this form to: Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy, Department of 
Linguistics, University of Canterbury, Private Bag 4800, 
Christchurch, New Zealand.

 Storytelling in the Americas Conference

 DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONOF ABSTRACTS EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 20, 2001

 August 30 to September 1, 2001
 Brock University
 St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada

 (keynote speaker: Prof. Mario Valdes, University of Toronto)


We welcome the submission of abstracts for 20-minute talks. Papers
accepted for presentation will be considered for an independent
volume. Submissions must address the issue of storytelling in the
Americas. Specific areas of inquiry include, but are not limited to
the following:

 Aboriginal Studies
 Literary Studies
 Audience and Reader's Response 
 Myth
 Children's Narratives 
 Oral Traditions
 Cinema 
 Power and Language
 Ethnolinguistics
 Semiotics
 Gender 
 Testimonial Narratives


Acceptance of your paper for presentation implies a commitment on your
part to register and attend the conference. Notification of acceptance
will be sent out on March 2, 2001. Only one individual and one joint
abstract per author will be accepted. Send 3 copies of a 250 word
abstract. (Submissions by e-mail are also encouraged. Abstracts sent
via e-mail should be in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.) Include
the title of the paper on the abstract, but not the names. Papers may
be given in English, French, Portuguese or

Spanish. Please include a cover page with the following:
 author's name(s) and affiliation(s)
 title of presentation
 mailing address
 e-mail address
 fax number

 Abstracts should be sent to either contact below.

 Storytelling in the Americas
 c/o Dr. Mark Anderson
 Dept. of History
 Brock University
 St. Catharines, Ontario
 Canada L2S 3A1
 e-mail: mandersospartan.ac.brocku.ca

 Storytelling in the Americas
 c/o Dr. Irene Blayer
 Dept. of French, Italian and Spanish
 Brock University
 St. Catharines, Ontario
 Canada L2S 3A1
 e-mail: blayerspartan.ac.brocku.ca

 OR

 icswww.BrockU.CA

 OR

Fax: 905-688-2789, attention: Irene Blayer, Department of French,
Italian and Spanish


Note: The independent volume from the 1999 conference Storytelling:
Interdisciplinary and Intercultural Perspectives published by Peter
Lang) will be available. 

URL of this document: 
http://www.brocku.ca/storytelling/callforpapers.htm 

Conference questions: icswww.BrockU.CA