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
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