The 4th conference of the ISGS

Gesture - Evolution, Brain and Linguistic Structures

European University Viadrina Frankfurt an der Oder (near Berlin)

July 25-30, 2010

Conference Website

CALL FOR PAPERS

The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) announces its fourth Conference, Gesture - Evolution, Brain, and Linguistic Structures, to be held July 25-30, 2010, in Frankfurt/Oder (near Berlin).

The conference will have the following thematic foci: linguistic, semiotic and pragmatic approaches to human gestural communication with a special focus on cognitive linguistic perspectives, possible evolutionary precursors, and neural correlates of gestures. A major goal is to provide a platform to discuss specific research questions within these areas and interdisciplinary approaches connecting these distinct areas of gesture research.

Topics

Gesture and

• language (grammar, metaphor, metonymy, iconicity, constructions, blending)
• speech (processing, comprehension, communication, conversation, interaction)
• multimodality
• nonhuman primate communication
• neurocognition/neural substrates
• sign languages (grammar, metaphor, metonymy, constructions
• evolution (spoken and signed languages)
• emotion
• development (first and second language acquisition
• culture (emblems, cultural diversities, cultural specificities)
• arts (art history, dance, theatre, film, painting, literature
• traditional and new media (tv, web, etc.)
• embodied conversational agents, gesture recognition, gesture in virtual reality, computer science, engineering
• other topics

Keynote speakers

• Josep Call (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig)
• Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
• Georg Goldenberg (Klinikum Bogenhausen, Technische Universität München)
• Adam Kendon (Naples, Philadelphia)
• David McNeill (University of Chicago)
• Roland Posner (Technische Universität Berlin)
• Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
  
  
  

Formats

Individual papers

- Talks: of 20 minutes with 10 minutes discussion

- Poster talks: of 5 minutes oral presentation

- Best Paper Award: PhD students can apply for the Best Paper Award (for poster talks and posters). The three best contributions (poster talk and poster) win a plenary lecture at the end of the conference. The best of the three lectures receives the Best Paper Award and wins reimbursement of the travel costs.

-Panels: integrated thematic sessions of at least up to 90 minutes, i.e. 3 presentations

Submission of abstracts

Abstracts should

• not exceed 500 words - references are excluded from this count
• clearly indicate a talk/poster talk/panel title
• be formatted as Word or RTF documents
• Abstracts can be submitted online www.isgs2010.de

DEADLINES

Panel submission: December 15, 2009

Individual paper submission: December 15, 2009

Poster talk: December 15, 2009

Best Paper Award: December 15, 2009

Notification of acceptance: at the latest January 15th, 2010

Local host

Program Chairs

• Cornelia Mueller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder)
• Ellen Fricke (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder)
• Hedda Lausberg (University Hospital Friedrich-Schiller-University, Jena)
• Katja Liebal (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
• Irene Mittelberg (HumTec, RWTH Aachen University)

Scientific Committee

• Alan Cienki (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
• Jean-Marc Colletta(Universite Stendhal, Grenoble)
• Pierre Feyereisen (Universite catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)
• Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
• Marianne Gullberg (Radboud University and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
• Christian Heath (King's College London)
• Henning Holle (University of Sussex, Falmer)
• Judith Holler (University of Manchester)
• Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)
• Adam Kendon (Philadelphia, Naples)
• Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham)
• Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University)
• David Leavens(University of Sussex, Falmer)
• Dario Mastripieri (University of Chicago)
• Karl-Erik McCullough (University of Chicago)
• David McNeill (University of Chicago)
• Lorenza Mondada (University of Lyon)
• Asli Oezyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
• Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)
• Lluis Payrato (Universitat de Barcelona)
• Simone Pika (University of Manchester)
• Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Stanford University)
• Gale Stam (National-Louis University, Chicago)
• Virginia Volterra (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rom)
• Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
• Christoph Wulf (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

Local Organizing Committee

• Jana Bressem
• Silva Ladewig
• Susanne Tag
• Ulrike Wrobel
• Iris Franke
• Julius Hassemer
• Benjamin Marienfeld
• Nicole Stein

Contact

contact@isgs2010.de