LINGUIST List 10.286

Mon Feb 22 1999

FYI: IASS-Info 2/5, IASS-Info 1/5

Editor for this issue: Brett Churchill <brettlinguistlist.org>


Directory

  • alan harris, IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 2/5 - 1999/04-05 (fwd)
  • alan harris, IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 1/5 - 1999/01-03

    Message 1: IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 2/5 - 1999/04-05 (fwd)

    Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:40:13 -0800 (PST)
    From: alan harris <vcspc005csun.edu>
    Subject: IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 2/5 - 1999/04-05 (fwd)


    IASS-AIS Bulletin-Newsletter - -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999 CONGRESS CALENDAR 2/5 = APRIL - MAY - --------------------------------------------------------------------

    1999 APRIL

    99-04-01 Potsdam: The GLOW Phonology Workshop Info: Ren Kager, Utrecht Institute of Linguistics/OTS, Trans 10, NL-3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands; Tel: +31 30 253 8064; Fax: +31 30 253 6000, Email: <kagerlet.uu.nl> "http://www.ling.uni-potsdam.de/ik/glow.html";

    99-04-02/03 Washington, DC: Oral Fixations: Cannibalizing Theories, Consuming Cultures. A Metadisciplinary Conference on the Thematics of Incorporation. Info: Oral Fixations; Program in Human Sciences, 801 22nd Street NW, Suite T-412, The George Washington University, Washington, DC 20052 USA; Fax: +1-202-994-7034, Email: <cannibalgwu.edu> "http://www.gwu.edu/~cannibal"; "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-04-06/09 Edinburgh: AISB'99 Convention. "http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/CFP"; - Symposium on Metaphor, AI and Cognition. Info: John Barnden, School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, Edgbaston Birmingham B15 2TT, UK; Email: <J.A.Barndencs.bham.ac.uk> "http://www.dai.ed.ac.uk/daidb/people/homes/geraint/aisb99/CFP/08-Metaphor"; "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9812")

    99-04-07/10 Duisburg: LAUD-Symposium - Women and Religious Discourses [Part 1: the Dominance of Male Discourse in Theology and Religious Studies * Part 2: Women Theologians Today and Feminist Theologies - New Theoretical and Exegetical Approaches to Theology Which Employ Insights From Gender Studies. * Part 3: Women, Poetic Space and Religious Experience * Part 4: Women and Religious Discourse in Practice: the Development of Feminist Ethics, New Styles of Pastoral Care and New Forms of Liturgy in Religions Generally]. Info: LAUD (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg), University of Duisburg, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany; Email: <lauduni-duisburg.de> Info: Pamela Anderson, LAUD (Linguistic Agency University of Duisburg), University of Duisburg, D-47048 Duisburg, Germany; Email: <pamela.andersonsunderland.ac.uk> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9801")

    99-04-08/10 Clemson, SC: Creativity and Values. Deadline: 18 January 1999 Info: Daniel E. Wueste, Dept of Philosophy, and Religion, 101 Hardin Hall, Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29634-1508, USA; Tel.: 864-656-5379, Fax: 864-656-2858, Email: <ernestClemson.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-04-08/11 Urbana-Champaign, IL: 13th Annual Conference on Pragmatics and Language Learning. Info: Larry Bouton, Email: <l-boutonuiuc.edu> "http://deil.lang.uiuc.edu/pragmatics/conference99.html";

    99-04-09/11 Austin, TX: SALSA - Symposium About Language and Society-Austin. Deadline: 15 January 1999 Info: SALSA VII, Dept of Linguistics, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX 78712, USA; Email: <SALSAccwf.cc.utexas.edu> "http://www.dla.utexas.edu/depts/anthro/projects/salsa";

    99-04-10 New Rochelle, NY: Literature and Transnationalism: Immigration, Migration, Diaspora. Deadline: 15 January 1999 Info: Deborah Williams, Dept of English, Iona College, New Rochelle, NY 10801; Tel: +1 914 633-2056, Email: <Dwilliamsiona.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-04-14/17 Newcastle upon Tyne: 2nd International Symposium on Bilingualism. Info: Gillian Cavagan, Dept of Speech, King George VI Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, GB-NE1 7RU UK; Fax: +44-191-2226518, Email: <gillian.cavagannewcastle.ac.uk> "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-1128.html";

    99-04-15/17 Paris: Acquisition of a foreign language: perspectives and research - Pragmatic Uses & Acquisition of Foreign Languages / Acquisition d'une langue etrangere: perspectives et recherches - Usages Pragmatiques et Acquisition des Langues Etrangeres. Info: Daniel Veronique or Francine Cicurel, Colloque, UFR Didactique du Francais langue etrangere, 46 rue Saint-Jacques, F-75230 Paris Cedex 05, France; Tel: +33 1 40462825; Fax: +33 1 40462930, Email: <daniel.veroniqueparis3.sorbonne.fr> or Email: <francine.cicurelparis3.sorbonne.fr> "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-640.html";

    99-04-15/27 New York: Rethinking Identities: State, Nation, Culture - 4th Annual Convention Association for the Study of Nationalities ASN. Info: Dominique Arel, Watson Institute. Brown University, Box 1970, Two Stimson Ave.. Providence, RI 02912, USA; Tel: +1 401 863 9296, Fax: +1 401 863 1270, Email: <darelbrown.edu> & Oded Eran, Harriman Institute, 1215 IAB, Columbia University, 410 W. 118th St., New York, NY 10027, USA; Tel: +1 212 854 6239, Fax: +1 212 666 3481, Email: <asncolumbia.edu> "http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/99-4-snc.html"; "http://library.pace.edu/asn";

    99-04-16/17 Pittsburgh, PA: Northeast Modern Language Association Info: "http://www.anna-maria.edu/nemla/";, on most sessions: "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807" + "cfp.9809")> - Session: Class and Cultural Conflict in Twentieth-Century Literature. Info: Cheri Louise Ross, School of Humanities, Penn State Harrisburg, Middletown, PA 17057, USA; Tel: +1 717 948-6727, Fax: +1 717 948-6727, Email: <clr5psu.edu> - Session: Engendering Composition: Conceptualizing Theory and Practice in Gendered Terms. Info: Jeanne Rose, Dept. of English, Univ. of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627, USA; Email: <jmrruhura.cc.rochester.edu> - Session: Geography in Post/Imperial Literature: Mapping Motives and Metaphors. Info: Rebecca Weaver, Dept of English, Univ of Kentucky, POT 1215, Lexington, KY, 40506-0027, USA; Email: <raweav1pop.uky.edu> - Session: The Literary Suburbs: Examining "Whiteness" in American Literature. Info: Patty Keefe Durso, 21 Hillside Ave, Mahwah, NJ 07430, USA; Tel: +1 201 512 1646, Fax: +1 201 512 9410, Email: <pkdidt.net> - Panel: Contemporary German Cinema Info: Vincent Hausmann, Dept. of Core Humanities, Villanova University, 800 Lancaster Ave., Villanova, PA 19085-1699, USA; Voice mail: +1 610 519-6000 ext 83410, Email: <vhausmanemail.vill.edu> - Panel: Sexuality and the Body in the Works of Non-White Women Writers Info: LaMonda Horton-Stallings, 1212 University Village, Apt. A, East Lansing, MI 48823 - Panel: Crime Fiction, Law & Lierature. Info: Jonathan H. Grossman, Dept. of English, U. of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716-2537, USA; Fax: +1 302 831 1586; Email: <grossmanudel.edu> - Panel: Literary Representations of the Witch. Info: Karen Humphreys, Dept of Modern Languages, Trinity College, Hartford, CT 06106, USA; Email: <Karen.Humphreysmail.trincoll.edu>

    99-04-16/17 Wien: 18. Seminar aus Semiotik des Rechts. Info: Gloria Withalm, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien, Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Wien, Austria; Email: <gloria.withalmuni-ak.ac.at>

    99-04-16/18 New York: Gender and Language - 44th Annual Conference of the International Linguistics Association. Info: Alice H. Deakins, English Dept, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ 07470, USA; Tel: +1 973 720 2582, Email: <deakinsfrontier.wilpaterson.edu>

    99-04-16/18 Kiel: Asthetik - am Anfang oder am Ende? - 7. Symposion der Gesellschaft fur Neue Phanomenologie Info: Andreas Kuhlmann, Gesellschaft fur Neue Phanomenologie, Wilhelmshavener StraBe 5, D-24105 Kiel, Germany; Fax: +49-431-8066422

    99-04-17 York: White Women Info: Ann Kaloski & Heloise Brown, Centre for Women's Studies, University of York, York YO10 5DD, UK; Fax: +44 1904 433670, Email: <eakn1york.ac.uk>, Email: <hjb104york.ac.uk> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807")

    99-04-18/20 Fargo, ND: Communication, Culture and Change [Grad.Stud.Conf]. Deadline: 1 March 1999 Info: Deanna Sellnow, Red River Valley Student Communication Conference, Dept of Communication, NDSU, Box 5075, Fargo, ND 58103, USA; Tel. +1 701 231-8221, email: <dsellnowbadlands.nodak.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-04-22/24 San Jose, CA: Business Culture/Culture of Business. Info: Bill Orchard, College of Business, 1 Washington Square, San Jose CA 95192-0067, USA; Email; <orchar_bcob.sjsu.edu> - Special Session: Gender and Business: An Interdisciplinary Dialogue. Deadline: 30 January 1999 Info: as above, or: Jennifer Gouine, Email: <gouine_jcob.sjsu.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9812")

    99-04-22/24 Thessaloniki: 13th International Symposium on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics. Deadline: 22 January 1999 Info: Katerina Nicolaidis, Aristotle University, School of English, 54006 Thessaloniki, Greece; Fax: +30 31 99 7432, Email: <knicolenl.auth.gr> "http://www.enl.auth.gr/events/13ling.htm";

    99-04-23/24 Binghamton NY: Philosophy, Interpretation, Culture - 9th Annual Conference. Info: Stephen David Ross, PIC Conference Coordinator, Dept of Philosophy, Binghamtpn University, POBox 6000, Binghamton NY 13902-6000, USA; Tel: +1 607 777-2735, Fax: +1 607 777-2734, Email: <srossbinghamton.edu> "http://philosophy.binghamton.edu";

    99-04-23/24 Neuchatel: Lire les passions - Kolloquium der Schweizer Gesellschaft fur Semiotik. Info: Evelyne Thommen, Institut de Psychologie, Uni-Fribourg, Faucigny 2, CH-1701 Fribourg, Switzerland; Email: <Evelyne.Thommenunifr.ch>

    99-04-23/25 Fargo, ND: Mapping Territory: Reinscriptions, Retellings and Revisions. Info: R.S. Krishnan, Red River Conference on World Literature, Dept of English, 322J Minard Hall, North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5075, USA; Email: <rkrishnaplains.nodak.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-04-24 London: Victorian Crime. Info: Chris Willis, Dept of English, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HX, UK; Email: <100415.1234compuserve.com> "http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Crete/3783/crimeconf.html";

    99-04-29 / 99-05-01 Milwaukee: Knowing Mass Culture/Mediating Knowledge. Info: Lynne Joyrich, Center for Twentieth Century Studies, P.O. Box 413, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA; Tel: +1 414 229-4141; Fax: +1 414 229-5964; Email: <ctr20csuwm.edu> "http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/20th";

    99-04-30/05-02 Santa Cruz, CA: On Edge - 1999 Meeting of the California American Studies Association. Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: Renny Christopher, CASA Program Chair, English Dept, California State University, Stanislaus, 801 W. Monte Vista, Turlock, CA, 95382, USA; Tel: +1 209 667-3294, Email: <rchristototo.csustan.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    1999 MAY

    99-05-06/08 Minneapolis MN: Creating the Other: The causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern europe. Info: Center for Austrian Studies, 314 Social Sciences Building, University of Minnesota, 267 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis MN 55455, USA: Email: <casahymaroon.tc.umn.edu> "http://www.mcs.net/~zupko/calls/call0189.htm";

    99-05-06/09 Kalamazoo MI: International Congress on Medieval Studies. "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9808")> - Special Session: Men Who Weep and Wail: Innovative Constructions of Masculinity in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Info: Jennifer C. Vaught, Dept. of English, Northern Michigan University, 1401 Presque Isle Ave., Marquette, MI 49855-5363, USA; Tel: +1 906 227-2752, Fax: +1 906 227-1096, Email: <jvaughtnmu.edu> - Special Session: The Sciences in Later Medieval Culture. Info: Scott Lightsey, Dept of English, University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716, USA; Email: <lightseyudel.edu>

    99-05-07/09 Amsterdam: Amsterdam Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (Amstelogue '99). Thems: I. Formal Semantics of Dialogue * II. Dialogue Systems * III. Dialogue Analysis (Empirical) Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: 5 pages abstracts to <amstelogai.hum.uva.nl> "http://earth.hum.uva.nl/~amstelog/";

    99-05-14/16 London, Ont.: Masculinities and Codes of Conduct in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Info: William D. Acres, Huron College, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada; Tel: +1 519 434-1581 "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9810")

    99-05-14/16 Wien: 4. Internationales Interdisziplinares Kolloquium uber Bildsprache - Visualisierung - Diagrammatik. Info: Jeff Bernard, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien, Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Wien, Austria; Fax: +43-1-5045344, Email: <gloria.withalmuni-ak.ac.at>

    99-05-15/16 Brighton: Landscapes of Memory - Oral History Society Annual Conference. Info: Steve Hussey, History Dept, Essex University, Colchester, CO4 3SQ, UK; Email: <husssessex.ac.uk> "http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.d/termine/1999/cland059.htm";

    99-05-19/21 Enschede, Netherlands: Interactions in Virtual Worlds - Workshop Deadline: 1 March 1999 Info: Olaf Donk, Parlevink Research Group, University of Twente/CTIT, Enschede, The Netherlands; Email: <donkcs.utwente.nl> "http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/Conferences/twlt15.html";

    99-05-19/21 Baltimore, MD: Advances in Digital Libraries Conference - IEEE ADL'99. Info: Susan Hoban, UMBC/NASA CESDIS NASA GSFC, Greenbelt, MD, USA; Tel: +1 301 286-7980, Email: <shobanpop900.gsfc.nasa.gov> Submission Abstracts: Elke Rundensteiner, Computer Science Dept, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, 100 Institute Road, Worcester, MA 01609, USA; Tel: +1 508 831-5815, Email: <rundenstcs.wpi.edu> or: Erich Neuhold, GMD-IPSI, Dolivostrasse 15, D-64293 Darmstadt, Germany; Tel: +49-6151-869-803, Fax: +49-6151-869-802, Email: <neuholddarmstadt.gmd.de>

    99-05-21/23 Bowling Green, OH: 3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display. Deadline: 15 February 1999 Info: Jack Santino, Dept of Popular Culture, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403-0226, USA; Tel: +1 419 372-2983, Fax +1 419 372-2577, Email: <jsantinbgnet.bgsu.edu> "http://seeing2020.com/holiday/";

    99-05-26/28 Vechta: Internationale Tagung uber Meter, Rhythm, and Performance - Metrum, Rhythmus und Performanz. Info: Christoph Kuper, Anglistische Sprachwissenschaft, DriverstraBe 22, D-49377 Vechta, Germany; Tel. +49-4441-15301, Fax: +49-4441-15444, Email: <Christoph.Kueperuni-vechta.de> "http://www.uni-vechta.de/termine/";

    99-05-27/29 Cieszyn: Organs, Organisms, Organisations. Organic Form in 19th Century Discourse. Deadline: 31 January 1999 Info: Tadeusz Slawek [or Tadeusz Rachwal], University of Silesia, Bankowa 12, Katowice, Poland; Tel: +48 32 2917417, Email: <rachwalus.edu.pl>

    99-05-27/29 Graz: Identity/Globalization/Promoting History - 4. Osterreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag Info: 4. Osterreichischer Zeitgeschichtetag '99, Abteilung Zeitgeschichte, KFU Graz, ElisabethstraBe 27, A-8010 Graz, Austria; Tel: +43 316 380 2617, Fax: +43 316 380 9738, Email: <zeitgeschichtegewi.kfunigraz.ac.at> "www.zeitgeschichte.at/cfp.html"

    99-05-28/29 Hamilton, Ont: Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory and Semiotics. Papers are welcomed on texts and music, which bring together postmodern and medieval interpretations of narrative, theory, philosophy, gender and class. Deadline: 1 February 1999 Info: Anne Savage, Dept of English, McMaster University, 1280 Main Street West, Hamilton L8S 4L9, Ontario, Canada; Email: <savagemcmail.cis.mcmaster.ca> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-05-28/30 Baltimore MD: 10th Annual Conference American Literature Association Conference. "http://english.byu.edu/croning/ala.htm"; - Session: Periodicals and the Making of American Culture. Deadline: 11 January 1999 Info: Ezra Greenspan, English Dept, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208, USA; Email: <ezra.greenspansc.edu> (preferred) - Panel: The Fact/Fiction Divide in Contemporary Literature. Deadline: 10 January 1999 Info: Andrew Burke, Dept of English, 252 Park Hall, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; Email: <arburkearches.uga.edu> - Panel: The Literature of Natural Disaster. Info: McKay Jenkins, English Dept, University of Delaware, Newark, DE 19716, USA; Email: <mckayudel.edu>

    99-05-29/06-01 State College PA: Gendered Landscapes: An interdisciplinary exploration of past places and space. Info: Ms. Bonj Szczygiel, Center for Studies in Landscape History, The Pennsylvania State University, 210 Engineering Unit D, University Park PA 16802-1429, USA; Email: <bxs28psu.edu> "http://www.outreach.psu.edu/C&;I/GenderedLandscapes/"

    - --end CONGRESS CALENDAR 2/5-----------------------------------------

    Message 2: IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 1/5 - 1999/01-03

    Date: Thu, 18 Feb 1999 05:28:50 -0800 (PST)
    From: alan harris <vcspc005csun.edu>
    Subject: IASS-Info Congress-Calendar 1/5 - 1999/01-03




    - -------------------------------------------------------------------- IASS-AIS Bulletin-Newsletter - -------------------------------------------------------------------- 1999 CONGRESS CALENDAR 1/5 = JANUARY - MARCH - --------------------------------------------------------------------

    1999 JANUARY

    99-01-05/08 Rotorua, New Zealand: The 8th IFIP 2.6 Working Conference on Database Semantics (DS-8) "Semantic Issues in Multimedia Systems". Info: "http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au/conf/ds8/";

    99-01-05/08 Maui: International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS). Info: Thomas Erickson, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, 3136 Irving Ave. S., Minneapolis MN 55408-2515, USA; Fax: +1-612-8231576, Email: <snowfallacm.org>

    99-01-10/14 Cape Town: World Archaeology Congress 4: Global Archaeology at the Turn of the Millenium. Info: Carolyn Ackermann, WAC4 Congress Secretariat, PO Box 44503, Claremont 7735, South Africa; Tel: +27 21 762 8600 Fax: +27 21 762 8606. Email: <wac4globalconf.co.za> "http://www.uct.ac.za/depts/age/wac";

    99-01-13/15 Tilburg: 3rd International Workshop on Computational Semantics (IWCS-3). Info: Conference Secretariat, Anne Adriaensen, Dept of Linguistics, Tilburg University, PO Box 90153, NL-5000 LE Tilburg, The Netherlands; Tel: +31 13 466 3060, Fax: +31 3 466 3110, Email: <computational.semanticskub.nl> "http://cwis.kub.nl/~fdl/research/ti/Docs/IWCS/iwcs.htm";

    99-01-16/17 Santa Barbara, CA: "Looking Up" - An International Conference Discussing the Cultural, Social, and Scientific Implications. Info: Jason M. Kelly, Dept of History, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA; Email: <lookingup99hotmail.com> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9712")

    99-01-19/21 Moscow: Speech Communication: Secrets of Success - International Coference. Info: Faculty of Foreign Languages, Moscow State University, 31/1 Lomonosovskuj pr., 117192 Moscow, Russia; Email: <fl_communicatintcol.msu.su>

    99-01-21/23 Adelaide: Self, Place and Imagination - Cross-Cultural Thinking in Architecture: 2nd Symposium. Info: Samer Akkach, Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia 5005; Tel: +61-8-8303 5832, Fax: +61-8-8303 4377, Email: <cameaarch.adelaide.edu.au> "http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/201_99aArchCrossCuADELAI.html";

    99-01-21/23 Adelaide: Self, Place and Imagination - Cross-Cultural Thinking in Architecture: 2nd Symposium. Info: Samer Akkach, Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture, The University of Adelaide, SA, Australia 5005; Tel: +61-8-8303 5832, fax: +61-8-8303 4377, Email: <cameaarch.adelaide.edu.au> "http://home.worldcom.ch/~negenter/201_99aArchCrossCuADELAI.html";

    99-01-23/24 Berkeley, CA: 14th Meeting of the Semiotic Circle of California. Info: Semiotic Circle of California; 5319 Dwinelle Hall; University of California Berkeley; Berkeley, CA 94720-3243, USA; Tel: +1 510 642-2003; Tel/Fax: +1 707 746-7480, Email: <irauchsocrates.berkeley.edu> "http://www.sfs.nphil.uni-tuebingen.de/linguist/issues/9/9-1516.html";

    99-01-25/26 Edinburgh: Workshop on Ethnographic Studies in Real and Virtual Environments - Inhabited Information Spaces and Connected Communities. Info: Katie Bates, Living Memory Project, Queen Margaret College, Clerwood Terrace, EH12 8TS Edinburgh, UK; Fax: +44-131-3164165

    99-01-25/28 Santiago de Cuba: 6th International Symposium on Social Communication [This international event will focus on social communication processes from the points of view of Applied Linguistics, Computational Linguistics, Cybernetics, Medicine and the Mass Media]. Info: Eloina Miyares Bermudez, Secretaria Ejecutiva Comite Organizador, Apartado Postal 4067. Vista Alegre, Santiago de Cuba 4, Cuba, 90400; Tel: +53-226-42760, +53-226-41081, Fax: +53-226-41579, Email: <leonellingapli.ciges.inf.cu> "http://wwwseti.cs.utwente.nl/Parlevink/cuba"; "http://www.univ-tlse2.fr/gril/Cuba.html";

    99-01-31/02-06 Rochebrune, Switzerland: 8e Journee de Rochebrune - Recontres interdisciplinaires sur les systemes complexes naturels et artificiels: Conflits des interpretations et interpretation des conflits Info: Christophe Parisse. INSERM Laboratoire de Neuropsychologie de l'Enfant, Batiment Pharmacie 3eme etage, Hopital de la Salpetriere, 47 bd de l'Hopital, 75651 Paris Cedex 13, France; Tel: +33 1 42160058, Email: <parisseext.jussieu.fr> "http://www.idiap.ch/~glotin/rb99.html";

    1999 FEBRUARY

    99-02-06 Bristol: Discours masculins, discours feminins. Info: Jessa Karki, Faculty of Languages and European Studies, UWE, Bristol, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK; Tel: +44 117 9763842, ext 2724, Fax: +44 117 976 2626, Email: <Jessa.Karkiuwe.ac.uk>

    99-02-12/13 Tucson AZ: Sources and Sites: Cross-disciplinary Uses of Critical Theory [GradStud]. Deadline: 20 January 1999 Info: Marta Brunner or Sharon Sandgathe, English Dept, ML 445, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA; Email: <martabu.arizona.edu> or Email: <sandgatsu.arizona.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-02-13 Sheffield: Wild at Heart and Weird on Top: The Films of David Lynch. Info: Lynch Conference, Dept of English Literature, University of Sheffield, Sheffield S10 2TN, UK; Email: <J.CrockfordSheffield.ac.uk> Email: <MUP95ACDSheffield.ac.uk> Annette Davison "http://www.shef.ac.uk/uni/D-H/el/conferences/wild.html";

    99-02-17/19 Vienna: International Conference on Computational Intelligence for Modelling, Control and Automation (CIMCA'99). Info: CIMCA'99 Secretariat, School of Computing and Information Technology, Monash University Gippsland Campus, Switchback Road, Churchill 3842, Victoria, Australia. "http://www-gscit.fcit.monash.edu.au/conferences/cimca99";

    99-02-18/20 Tempe AZ: Material Culture and Cultural Materialisms in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Info: Robert E. Bjork, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Arizona State University, PO Box 872301, Tempe, AZ 85287-2301, USA; Tel: +1 602 965-5900, Fax: +1 602 965-1681, Email: <acmrsasu.edu> "http:/www.asu.edu/clas/acmrs"

    99-02-19/21 Santa Cruz CA: SALT 9 - 1999 (Semantics and Linguistic Theory Conference) Info: SALT 9 Committee, Linguistics Research Center, Stevenson College, UCSC, Santa Cruz CA 95064, USA; Email: <salt9ling.ucsc.edu> "http://ling.ucsc.edu/salt9.html";

    99-02-24/26 Konstanz: Sprachwandel - Jahrestagung der Deutschen Gesellschaft fur Sprachwissenschaft. Info: Wolfgang U. Wurzel, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, JagerstraBe 10-11, D-10117 Berlin, Germany; Email: <wurzelzas.gwz.berlin.de>

    99-02-24/26 Konstanz: Meaning Change - Meaning Variation. Info: Regine Eckardt/Klaus von Heusinger, FG Sprachwissenschaft, Fach D 185, D-78457 Konstanz, Germany; Email: <regine.eckardtuni-konstanz.de>, Email: <klaus.heusingeruni-konstanz.de>

    99-02-26 Wilmington DE: Private Time, Private Space, Private Parts: Negotiating the Boundaries of Private and Public in History. Info: Deborah Kreiser, Hagley Fellows Conference, Dept of History, University of Delaware, 236 Munroe Hall, Newark, DE 19716, USA; Tel: +1 302 831-2371 "http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.d/termine/1999/cwilm029.htm";

    1999 MARCH

    99-03-04/07 Denton, TX: Language 99 - A conference across literature, linguistics and writing. Info: Languaging 99, University of North Texas, Dept of English, PO Box 311307, Denton, TX 76203-1307 USA; Email: <linglitunt.edu> "http://www.unt.edu/languaging";

    99-03-05/06 Binghamton NY: Identity, Ethnicity, Origins. Info: Antonio Sobejano-Moran, Binghamton University, Dept of Romance Languages & Literatures, P.O. Box 6000, Binghamton NY 1395-6000, USA; Email: <sobebinghamton.edu>, or Carol Stiner <cstinerbinghamton.edu> "http://www.geocities.com/collegepark/4248";)

    99-03-05/07 Lexington, KY: Connections: Weaving a Web of Interdisciplinary Understanding [GradStud Conference Cultural Studies ] Info: Matthew Sutton, Connections Conference, University of Kentucky, 1215 Patterson Office Tower, Lexington, KY 40506-0027; USA; Email (no attachments, please) <mdsutt00pop.uky.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-03-06 Wilhelmshaven: Tagung uber das Meer als kulturellen Erfahrungsraum IV. Info: Dirk Roller, Semeion - Institut fur Semiotische Praxis, Heinrich-Heine-Ring 30, D-26386 Wilhelmshaven, Germany

    99-03-12/13 Munster: Special Conference on Johann Leo Weisgerber Info: Studienkreis Geschichte der Sprachwissenschaft, c/o Klaus D. Dutz, Postfach 5725, D-48031 Munster, Germany; Email: <dutz.nodust-online.de>

    99-03-12/14 Dublin: Cinema and the City Keynote Speakers: Mike Davis, Geoffrey Nowell-Smith. Kevin Rockett. Topics include: Cinema, Architecture, and Capitalism * The Human Body in the City * Mobility, Escape, and Urban Alienation * Utopian and Dystopian Visions of Urban Space * the City and the Country - the Natural vs. the Built-Environment * Suburbia and the Cinema - Histories and Representations * Local histories of particular film industries and their home cities * the City as Cinema Marketplace - Reception and Consumption. Info: Mark Shiel. Centre for Film Studies, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland; Tel. +353-1-7068629 or 7068327, Fax: +353-1-7068605, Email: <mashieltinet.ie> "http://www.ucd.ie/~film/conf.htm";

    99-03-12/14 Wien: Signs, Music, Society - a Transdisciplinary Colloquium. Info: Jeff Bernard, Institut fur Sozio-Semiotische Studien, Waltergasse 5/1/12, A-1040 Wien, Austria; Fax: +43-1-5045344, Email: <gloria.withalmuni-ak.ac.at> "http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/99-3-sms.html";

    99-03-14/20 Claremont, CA: Visual Cultures - Fifth International Conference on Word and Image. - Session: Philosophical Pictures * Ekphrasis * Art Criticism and Social Institutions of Art * Experimental Poetics & Word and Image Studies * Ancient and "Non-Western" Cultures * Narrtive/Narratology * Dialogues of "East" and "West" * Theories of Illustration * Dance, Image, Text * Hybrid Culturs in the Garden * Semiotics of Word & Image * Power Structures * Body Art * Moving Word & Image * Identity Signs * Popular Word & Image Cultures * Muti-Media Cultures * Metavisual Trace in Dramatic Performance * Museum Culture(s) * Verbal-Visual Cognitions: Versions of Self * Historical and Contemporary Perspectives * Images of the Other * Hypertext. - Special Session: Illustrating Alice Info: Eric T. Haskell, Dept. of French and Humanities, Scripps, College, Claremont, CA 91711-3948, USA; Tel: +1 909-621-0250, Fax: +1 909-621-8323, Email: <ehaskellscrippscol.edu> "http://www.let.ruu.nl/scholar_asoc/iawis/claremont.html";

    99-03-16/18 Mannheim: 35. Jahrestagung des Instituts fur deutsche Sprache (IDS) Sprache und neue Medien. Info: Werner Kallmeyer, Jahrestagung 1999, Postfach 10 16 21, D-68016, Mannheim, Germany "http://www.ids-mannheim.de/aktuell/tagung99.html";

    99-03-17/19 Gif-sur-Yvette: Workshop on Gesture-Based Communication in Human-Computer Interaction. Info: Annelies Braffort, LIMSI-CNRS, BP 133, F-91403 Orsay Cedex, France; Email: <gw99limsi.fr>

    99-03-19/21 Stony Brook NY: Posing Questions: Interrogating Performance, Exhibition, and Representation. Info: Julie Burton-Swift, POSING QUESTIONS, Dept of English, State University of New York, Stony Brook, Stony Brook, NY 11794-4433, USA; Email: <jburtonsic.sunysb.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9811")

    99-03-24/28 Milwaukee: American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies Meeting. - Panel: Aesthetics and the 18th Century Constructions of Self. Info: Mona Narain, Email: <Mnarainotterbein.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807")> - Panel: Furnishing and Fashion: Material Culture in the early Americas. Info: Dennis Moore, Dept of English, Florida State University, Tallahassee FL 32306-1580, USA; Tel: +1 850 644-1177, Email: <dmooreenglish.fsu.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9808")> - Session: Discourse of the Body: Medical, Legal, Literary. Info: Kathryn Temple, English Dept, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20057, USA; Email: <templekgusun.georgetown.edu>

    99-03-25/26 Le Havre: Societies and Cultures: Order and Disorder. Info: CERIL, Virginie Lecouvez, Universite du Havre, Faculte des Affaires Internationales, 25, rue Philippe Lebon, BP 540, F-76058 Le Havre, France, Email: <barbichefst.univ-lehavre.fr> "http://www.sun.rhbnc.ac.uk/Music/Conferences/99-3-sac.html";

    99-03-25/26 Roskilde: Broadcast Conversations: Interaction in the Media. Deadline: 15 January 1998 Info Abstracts: Mie Femo Nielsen, Roskilde University, Dept. of Language and Culture, Universitetsvej 1, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark; Tel: +45 46 74 20 00, Fax: +45 46 74 30 62, Email: <femoeruc.dk> Info Registration: Birgit Bech (secretariat), Roskilde University, House 46.2, Universitetsvej 1, DK-4000 Roskilde, Denmark; Tel: +45 46 74 20 00, Fax: +45 46 74 30 04, Email: <bberuc.dk>

    99-03-25/27 Amsterdam: Iconicity in Language and Literature. Info: Olga Fischer, Engels Seminarium, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Spuistraat 210, NL-1012VT Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Tel: +31-20-5253825, Fax: +31-20-5253052, Email: <olga.fischerhum.uva.nl> or: Max Nanny, Englisches Seminar, Universitat Zurich, Plattenstrasse 47, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland; Tel: +41-1-6343551, Fax: +41-1-6344908, Email: <naennyes.unizh.ch> "http://www.es.unizh.ch/iconicity";

    99-03-25/27 Milwaukee, WI: Women and Creativity 2: Women as Artists and Subjects. Info: Diane Long Hoeveler, Women's Studies Program, Marquette University, P. O. Box 1881, Milwaukee, WI 53201, USA; Fax: +1 414 288-5433, Email: <diane.hoevelermarquette.edu> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807")

    99-03-26/28 DeKalb IL: Midwestern Conference on Film, Language and Literature. Deadline: 18 January 1999 Info: MCFLL Co-Directors, Dept of English, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL 60115, USA; Email: <MidwestCFLLyahoo.com> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9812")

    99-03-26/28 Iowa City: Screening Disability - A Conference on Cinema and Disability Info: The Cinema and Disability Group, c/o Christopher R. Smit, Dept. of Communication Studies, 105 Becker Communication Studies Bldg., University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA 52242, USA; Fax: +1 319 351-6134, Email: <Crvsmitaol.com> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9810")

    99-03-29/04-01 Potchefstroom, South Africa: Poetics and Linguistics: Discourses of war and conflict. Info: Ina Biermann, Dept of Literary Theory, University of South Africa, PO Box 392, 0001 Pretoria, South Africa; Fax: +27 12 429, Email: <biermwgjalpha.unisa.ac.za>

    99-03-29/31 Berlin: The 1999 GLOW Colloquium. Info: GLOW Selection Committee, c/o Artemis Alexiadou, Zentrum fur Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Typologie und Universalienforschung, Jagerstr. 10/11, 1d-0117 Berlin, Germany; Tel: +49 30 2019 2404/1; Fax: +49 30 2019 2402, Email: <glow99zas.gwz-berlin.de> "http://www.zas.gwz-berlin.de/events/glow/index.html";

    99-03-31/04-03 San Diego, CA: National Convention Popular Culture Association & American Culture Association. - Session: Science Fiction/Fantasy. Info: Barbara Silliman, POBox 19722, Johnston, RI 02919-0722, USA; Email: <BSill8360aol.com> "http://www.english.upenn.edu/CFP/index.html"; (->Monthly Archive "cfp.9807")

    - --end CONGRESS CALENDAR 1/5-----------------------------------------