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

• Talk (20 minutes and 10 minutes for discussion)
• Poster talks (5 minutes oral presentation and subsequent poster presentation in the poster session. 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
• be submitted electronically to <contactisgs2010@berlingesturecenter.de>

Please include the following information in the main body of your email:

• author's name
• affiliation
• email address for correspondence
• title of talk/poster talk/panel/
• 3-5 keywords
• submission for Best Paper Award
  
  
  

DEADLINES

Panel submission: October 11th, 2009

Individual paper submission: November 15th, 2009

Poster talk: November 15th, 2009

Best Paper Award: November 15th, 2009

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