LINGUIST List 6.584

Wed 19 Apr 1995

Calls: Cultural studies, Natural language processing

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1. ICSC konferenssi, Call for Papers
2. Kang-Hyuk Lee, CFP: NLPRS '95

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 CROSSROADS IN CULTURAL STUDIES
 An International Conference
 July 1-4, 1996, Tampere, Finland
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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Cultural studies is not a one-way street between the centre and
peripheries. Rather, it is a crossroads, a meeting point in
between different centres, disciplines and intellectual
movements. People in many countries and with different
backgrounds have worked their way to the crossroads
independently. They have made contacts, exchanged views and
gained inspiration from each other in pursuing their goals.
 The vitality of cultural studies depends on a continuous
traffic through this crossroads. Therefore the conference
organizers invite people with different geographical,
disciplinary and theoretical backgrounds together to share their
ideas. We encourage international participation from a wide range
of research areas.
 The conference is organized by the Department of Sociology
and Social Psychology, University of Tampere, and Network
Cultural Studies. The organizing committee represents several
universities and disciplines.

Organizing committee International advisory board

Pertti Alasuutari (chair) Ien Ang (Australia)
Marko Valo (secretary) Jostein Gripsrud (Norway)
Pirkkoliisa Ahponen Lawrence Grossberg (USA)
Katarina Eskola Kim Schroder (Denmark)
Pasi Falk
Marja-Liisa Honkasalo
Eeva Jokinen
Mikko Lehtonen
Kaisu Rattya
Matti Savolainen
Annika Suoninen
Soile Veijola

SPEAKERS WILL INCLUDE:

Ien Ang * Pasi Falk * Paul Gilroy * Jostein Gripsrud *
Jaber F. Gubrium * Lawrence Grossberg * Eeva Jokinen *
Sonia Livingstone * Anssi Perakyla * Kim Schroder * Soile Veijola

CALL FOR PAPERS AND COORDINATORS

As you will see below, many people have already volunteered to
organize sessions on a wide variety of topics, but there is still
the opportunity to add to the list. So please complete the
preliminary abstract form if you would like to give a paper or
offer to organize a session. There will also be a book
exhibition, and publishers are requested to contact the
organizers.
 The second announcement and invitation programme, including
more information about the conference, its side-events, and a
registration form will be available in September. At this stage
we assume that the conference fee - including lunch and coffee -
will be about 1000 FIM ($210) and hotel accommodation double $70
and single $60 (with breakfast included).
 The Conference will be held in Tampere Hall that is the
largest congress and concert centre in the Scandinavia. Opposite
to the University of Tampere, Tampere Hall is within easy walking
distance from the centre of the city and its many services. The
unique architecture clearly reflects the activities for which the
building was built: conferences, exhibitions, concerts and
ballet.

LIST OF SESSIONS:

 Anthropology and Cultural Studies: Influences and Differences
 Body in Society
 Cultural Studies and Space
 Cultural Encounters in Mediterranean
 Cultural Approaches to Education
 Diaries and Everyday Life
 Encountering with Otherness in Cultural Border-Crossings
 Ethnography and Reception: Dilemmas in Qualitative Audience
 Studies
 Feminist and Cultural Approaches to Tourism
 History and Theory of Cultural Studies
 (Inter)Net Cultures and New Information Technology
 Life Stories in European Comparative Perspective
 Media Culture in the Everyday Life of Children and Youth
 New Genders: The Decay of Heterosexuality
 Post-Socialism and Cultural Reorganization
 Risk and Culture
 Social Theory and Semiotics
 Study of Institutional Discourse
 The Culture of Cities
 The Narrative Construction of Life Stories
 Voluntary Associations as Cultures
 Youth Culture

_______________________________________________________________
 REPLY FORM

 To make sure you will receive the Invitation Programme and the
 registation form and to ascertain a speedy decision on your
 proposed paper, would you kindly return the reply form before
 August 31, 1995.

 Name:

 Organization:

 Address:

 Country:

 Tel:

 Fax:

 E-mail:

 Please send me the Invitation Programme

 I would like to organize a session on:

 I would like to present a paper at the session on:

 Preliminary Abstract (No more than 100 words, please type, or
 send a separate sheet):









 _____________________________________________________________
 Please complete and return to: Crossroads in Cultural Studies,
 University of Tampere, Department of Sociology and Social
 Psychology, P.O. Box 607, FIN-33101, Tampere, Finland;
 tel: +358 31 2156949, +358 31 368 1848; fax: +358 31 2156 080;
 e-mail: iscsmailuta.fi.

 NOTE:

 This document is also made available in gopher and WWW (World
 Wide Web) -systems. You can always find the updated version from
 the following addresses:

 * with WWW-browser (for example Lynx, Mosaic, NetScape) use the
 following URL (Universal Resource Locator):

 http://www.uta.fi/laitokset/sosio/culture/

 * with GOPHER you can execute the following command:

 gopher -p 1/information_in_english/university/Departments/sosio_sosiopsyk/
 culture vuokko.uta.fi 70

 or if the command above fails, connect your gopher to address:
 vuokko.uta.fi 70 and follow the path starting by: "16. Information in English/"

NLPRS '95 - CALL FOR PAPER

 Third Natural Language Processing
 Pacific-Rim Symposium

 Seoul, Korea
 December 4-6, 1995

NLPRS'95, which will be held from December 4-6, 1995 in Seoul, Korea, is
the third forums to bring together NLP researchers in the Pacific-Rim area
for scientific exchange and presentation. The program will include tutorials,
invited talks, and demonstrations as well as tracks for paper and video
presentations.

TOPICS OF INTEREST: Submissions are solicited on original and previously
unpublished research in all aspects of NLP, including, but not limited to:

 phonetics generation
 phonology parsing
 morphology machine(-aided)translation
 syntax linguistic models of natural language
 semantics natural language interface and dialog systems
 pragmatics language-oriented information retrieval
 discourse corpus-based language modelling

PAPER SUBMISSION: Papers of no longer than 6 pages in the double-column
conference format should be submitted by 20th June, 1995. We strongly
encourage papers to be electronically submitted. In this case, they should
be in either LaTeX format or plain text, and should be emailed to :

 nlprs95cair.kaist.ac.kr

If electronic submission is not possible, three hard copies of the paper
should be sent to:

 Mr. J.M. KIM
 NLPRS'95 Secretariat
 Foreign Tourist Dept II
 Hanjin Travel Service Co.,Ltd.(Conference Agency)
 132-4, 1-ka, Bongrae-dong, Chung-ku,
 100-161, Seoul, Korea
 Phone:+82-2-726-5540, Fax:+82-2-773-1623

DEADLINES: Paper Submission: June 20, 1995
 Notification of Acceptance: August 30, 1995
 Camera Ready Copy Due: September 30, 1995

ACCOMMODATIONS:

Hotel Sofitel Ambassador is designated for the Symposium accommodation.
Room rate is specially reduced as US$100.-/night approximately for single,
double or twin type. The above rate includes 10% service charge & 10% VAT,
but it does not include breakfast. Hotel reservation should be made through
the Secretariat.

The WWW version of this CFP is also avaiable at:

 URL:http//world.kaist.ac.kr/~KLE/NLPRS95.html

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Kang-Hyuk Lee, Ph.D
Senior Researcher
System Development Department
Korea R&D Information Center (KORDIC)
Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST)

E-mail: khleestissbs.kordic.re.kr
URL:http://stissbs.kordic.re.kr/~khlee/
Phone: +82-42-822-9875
Fax: +82-42-822-1974
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