LINGUIST List 25.3025
Wed
Jul 23 2014
Calls: General
Linguistics/UK
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Anna White <awhitelinguistlist.org>
Date: 23-Jul-2014
From: Fernanda Barrientos
<fernandab
postgrad.manchester.ac.uk>
Subject: Manchester Forum in
Linguistics
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Full Title: Manchester Forum in Linguistics
Short Title: mFiL
Date: 13-Nov-2014 - 14-Nov-2014
Location: Manchester, United Kingdom
Contact Person: Fernanda Barrientos
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Meeting Email:
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Web Site:
http://mFiLconf.wordpress.com
Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
Call Deadline: 04-Sep-2014
Meeting Description:
Meeting Description:
The Manchester Forum in Linguistics (mFiL) is
an annual event which brings together new
researchers from every field of linguistics.
The aim of the event is to share current work,
results and problems, and to provide
information and advice for early career
researchers. This includes the presentation of
papers, posters, a careers panel and plenary
talks, as well as dinner and drinks.
Plenary Speakers:
We are delighted to welcome the following new
lecturers and emerging researchers to share
their research and experience of work in
academia.
Joel Wallenberg - University of Newcastle
Patrycja Strycharczuk - Queen Margaret
University
Wing Yee Chow - Basque Center on Cognition,
Brain and Language
Xiao He - University of Southern California
Careers Panel:
Our conference provides an opportunity to quiz
our experts of the recent job market on their
path to securing their current research
positions. We invite questions from the
audience which our guest speakers kindly answer
with targeted advice, based on their experience
of the past few years. Past topics include
publishing, increasing employability and
presenting knowledge and skills to others.
2nd Call for Papers:
Submissions for oral and poster presentations
in all areas of linguistics are welcomed.
Presentations should be no more than 20 minutes
in length with 10 additional minutes allocated
for questions, comments and discussion.
Preference will be given to abstracts which
contain implications for linguistic theory or
employ novel methodology.
Submission of Abstracts:
Deadline: September 4, 2014
Format: 350 words (excluding references) of
plain text. Copy your abstract into the plain
text box on our submissions page.
Submission: via EasyChair
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mfil2014
N.B. If you have not previously registered with
EasyChair, you will need to do so in order to
submit an abstract and questions.
Please do not hesitate to contact us at
mFiL
manchester.ac.uk with any
questions or comments.
To keep up to date with the conference,
please:
Visit our website :
http://mFiLconf.wordpress.com
Follow us on Twitter
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Like us on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/mFiLconf
Page Updated: 23-Jul-2014