LINGUIST List 9.1691

Mon Nov 30 1998

Calls: Slavic Languages, Latin American Languages

Editor for this issue: Karen Milligan <karenlinguistlist.org>

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1. Uwe Junghanns, Slavic Languages
2. Michele Neylon, Interdisciplinary Approaches to Latin America

3rd European Conference
on
Formal Description of Slavic Languages

1-3 December, 1999

hosted by the University of Leipzig

The Slavic Department of the University of Leipzig is pleased to announce
the 3rd European Conference on Formal Description of Slavic Languages
(FDSL-3).

Abstracts are invited for 30-minute talks (20-minute presentation plus 10
minutes for discussion) on the syntax, morphology, phonology, semantics,
and psycholinguistics of Slavic languages. Presentations will be in any
Slavic language, English or German.

Deadline for receipt of abstracts: May 30, 1999

How to submit abstracts:
Abstract submission must be by post (email submissions will not be
accepted). Send 4 copies of an anonymous one-page abstract to the postal
address below. One additional page with references, figures and data (no
text) may be appended, if necessary. Please include an extra sheet of paper
with:
- title of paper
- your name (and title)
- complete mailing address and affiliation (or home address, if necessary)
- telephone and fax numbers
- email address (and URL of personal homepage)

Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be notified in mid-July 1999.

Those interested in attending FDSL-3 are invited to register their email
and/or postal addresses at the conference address below (email is preferred
for all communication except submission of abstracts).

Additional information is available at the FDSL-3 web site:
<http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~jungslav/fdsl/fdsl-3/fdsl-3.html

Organizing Committee:
Gerhild Zybatow, Uwe Junghanns, Grit Mehlhorn, Luka Szucsich

Postal address:
Universitaet Leipzig
Institut fuer Slavistik
FDSL-3 Organizing Committee
Augustusplatz 9
04109 Leipzig
GERMANY

Email: <fdsl-3rz.uni-leipzig.de>
Phone: ++49-341-97 37 450, -454
Fax: ++49-341-97 37 499

CROSSING BOUNDARIES: INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACHES TO LATIN AMERICA

29th JUNE- 2nd JULY
1999


CALL FOR PAPERS


This international conference aims to explore some of the contemporary
cultural debates taking place about Latin America and to draw together
the various strands of those debates in a multidisciplinary forum.
Papers might consider the various issues around modernization,
hybridity, or transculturation as they apply to various fields of
study. Papers would be welcome in any of the following fields:
cultural studies, literature (particularly those looking at trends in
contemporary narrative including neo-avantgarde and popular fiction),
drama studies, cinema, gender studies, popular culture, comparative
literature, anthropology, ethnography, sociology,linguistics,economics, 
politics and/or law.

Symposia proposed so far include 'Exile: the Latin American
Experience', 'Indigenismo & Negrismo', 'U.S. & Latin America'. 

Papers should be no longer than 20 minutes. Abstracts of no more than
200 words in English, Spanish or Portuguese should be sent, preferably
by email, to the Conference Organisers (see below), Department of
Languages and Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Ireland by the
31st of January 1999. 


Conference Organizers

Nuala Finnegan, Kate Quinn, Nancy Serrano, Department of Languages and
Cultural Studies, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.

Tel. 353 61 202700
Fax: 353 61 330316

email: Nuala.Finneganul.ie, Kate.Quinnul.ie, Nancy.Serranoul.ie

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For updates etc., please visit our webpage:
http://www.ul.ie/~neylonm/conf.html


Mr. Michele J. Neylon,
Department of Language & Cultural Studies,
University of Limerick,
Limerick,
Ireland
Tel. 353-61-202670
http://www.ul.ie/~neylonm/index.html
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