Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication

Special issue: Social media in news discourse

As professional media producers pay more attention to social media, from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and YouTube videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among these are how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused media with the public and fact-centred discourse of the news.

This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging around the use of social media by news organisations, and the implications of those conventions for public communication. Contributions will have as their central concern whether or not the encounter with social media
is changing aspects of news journalism.

Possible questions arising from this concern include:

how do the forms of personal expression to be found in social media translate into news discourse?
what authority or status as ‘knowers’ is given in the news to voices from various social media?
how are specific kinds of social media typically made use of within news discourse?
how are journalism’s ethical frameworks applied to these media? to what extent is social media content decontextualised from its online social context when used by journalism?
are social media texts produced within news organisations also used in news texts?

Papers should be 5000-7500 words in length and submitted electronically to the guest editor, Donald Matheson, at donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz. Deadline for completed manuscripts is 20 November 2010. The issue is scheduled for publication in the second half of 2011.

Yah, it’s difficult to hand in all of those papers, apply for travel grants, and get that abstract sent off in time, but not impossible. You just have to know how to manage your time.

Ideally you should start a list of promising Calls for Papers about six months ahead of the busiest months for deadlines – December and June. Start local if you are not a seasoned conference speaker as you are going to need all the time you can get on writing that proposal and preparing your speech. In this case, you should be asking peers and professors if there are any low-profile symposia coming up, as your goal is to have the least stressful preparation time. Often your university will have workshops or student-led discussions that can get you started.

One good thing about conferences is that you usually do not have to prepare much more than 10 pages of text for your presentation. Ideally you will have a thesis/chapter all ready to be edited into a concise little package for your abstract; but if it isn’t quite ready to be released upon the world, the best way to save time and keep your sanity – and maybe even enjoy your research a bit – is to recycle papers and articles you have been working on but have not published yet. The trick is to find an angle.

So dust off that paper on Mughal floral symbolism from last year that you have been dying to get back to, and look at the CFPs to see if there is any way you can fit it into someone’s conference theme. Is there a symposium with a post-colonial bent? Maybe you can connect European collections of Asian art with issues of paternalism. Is there a conference on the decorative arts? Maybe you can discuss floral symbolism in Persian rugs. You should try a few different angles, but they should not be so different and so far from your original subject that you end up sacrificing deep research for broad.

Once you have crafted a few good abstracts that you think can be pursued in tandem with your primary research, send them off and continue to take notes and craft good outlines. Don’t bother with the final writing until someone invites you to speak at a conference, but you should be prepared to write quickly once you get that invitation. Sometimes there are only a few weeks between the time you are notified and the actual date of the conference. Also, remember conferences are fun, good for your resume, and great for bouncing new ideas off your peers, but unless you are pretty far along in your grad program, conference papers are much less important than getting your thesis/PhD proposal all together. If you can’t fit it all in, there will always be another conference.

Finally, prepare for your speech. If you can, please try to work from notes rather than reading a paper. This always makes the speech more dynamic. Also, practice speaking. It is really impossible to give a really good speech without running through it more than a few times. And don’t forget about the time limit. There is nothing more annoying to your fellow speakers than speaking for a half hour or 45 minutes when you have a suggested 20 minute time limit. less time speaking also means more time for questions, and that is what you are there for, right? To find out where you can strengthen your argument or to learn more from people in related areas? The organizers will appreciate it and remember you for it as well if you can control your time. They may even like you better for it and look for you at the next networking opportunity.

I ran into this call (via Danah Boyd) for papers for a special issue of Interacting with Computers about Feminism and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that didn’t pop up in my mailing lists so I thought I would post it here.

From the CfP:

[...] The “Feminism and HCI: New Perspectives” Special Issue seeks to provide a forum for scholarly contributions and applications of feminism to the discipline of HCI. Though the topic of feminism has many inputs and applications, we confine our focus to the interaction design implications of this problem space. Specifically, we are concerned with the design and evaluation of interactive systems that are imbued with sensitivity to the central commitments of feminism—agency, fulfillment, identity and the self, equity, empowerment, diversity, and social justice. We also seek to improve our understanding of how gender identities and relations shape both the use of interactive technologies and their design. Additionally, feminist HCI entails critical perspectives that could help reveal unspoken values within HCI’s dominant research and design paradigms, and underpin the development of new approaches, methods and design variations.

• Abstract submission (300-500 words) deadline: February 28, 2010
• Full paper submission deadline: June 1, 2010
• First-round reviews to authors: late August/early September, 2010
• Revised papers due for final review and comments to authors: November 2010
  
• Final papers due: Dec 15, 2010
• Special issue publication: March, 2011

You can read the full text here.
And to get into the spirit, I will add this Geek and Poke cartoon here:

LRR10: LOGIC, REASONING AND RATIONALITY

http://www.lrr10.ugent.be/

September 20-22, 2010

Centre for Logic and Philosophy of Science, Ghent University, Belgium

The idea that there is a strong connection between logic, reasoning, and rationality, which was very popular among the philosophers of the Wiener Kreis, has long been out of  fashion. Findings from history and philosophy of science and from cognitive psychology have revealed that the traditional logician’s tool, Classical Logic, is not fit for explicating human reasoning either in the sciences or in everyday life. Times have changed, however. Today, a multiplicity of formal frameworks (ranging from non-classical  logics over probability theory to Bayesian networks) is available in addition to Classical Logic. Also, historians and philosophers of science as well as psychologists have described a rich variety of patterns in both scientific and common sense reasoning.

The aim of LRR10 is to stimulate the use of formal frameworks to explicate concrete  examples of human reasoning and, conversely, to challenge scholars in formal studies by presenting them with interesting new examples of actual reasoning. Therefore, we welcome papers in all areas related to non-classical logics and non-classical formal frameworks. We also welcome case studies from history and philosophy of science, as well as from psychology, that enhance our apprehension of concrete reasoning patterns that occur in the sciences and in everyday life. Finally, we welcome contributions that deal with the philosophical implications of the present-day insights for our understanding of rationality.

Contributions may cover topics from the following (non-exhaustive) list:

- non-classical logics (adaptive logics, paraconsistent logics, relevant logics, modal logics, non-monotonic logics, epistemic and doxasticlogics, erotetic logics, many-valued logics, fuzzy logics, conditional logics, …)

- formal methods in philosophy of science and in epistemology (probability theory, bayesian and causal nets, …)

- knowledge and belief dynamics (belief revision, belief merging, conceptual change, …)

- reasoning patterns (induction, abduction, IBE, analogical reasoning, model-based reasoning, inconsistency-handling, defeasible reasoning, causal reasoning, argumentation schemes, historical case-studies, …)

- present-day views on rationality (bounded rationality, rationality and values,fallibilism, …)

Confirmed keynote speakers:

Arnon Avron, Diderik Batens, Giovanna Corsi, Newton da Costa, Thomas Nickles, Graham Priest and Andrzej Wisniewski

Practical information:

* If you would like to present a paper at the conference, please submit an abstract (500 to 1000 words) by MARCH 15, 2010 to the following e-mail address: LRR10@UGent.be.

* Please write “ABSTRACT SUBMISSION” in the Subject header of your mail.

* Abstracts can be submitted in .doc, .docx or .pdf. Abstracts received will be acknowledged by e-mail. All abstracts will be carefully refereed.

Timetable:

* March 15, 2010: deadline for submission of abstracts

*May 1, 2010: notification of acceptance of abstracts

* May 15, 2010: deadline for speaker confirmation of attendance

* September 19, 2010: Academic Session in honour of Diderik Batens (partly in Dutch, followed by a reception)

* September 20-22, 2010: Conference

I think I’ve posted about this before, but since the deadline for submissions is approaching, I thought I’d repost this CFP:

The conference topic covers all aspects of the theme Hegel, Religion, and Politics, broadly understood. We invite papers that investigate or problematize in new ways and in new connections the intersection of religion and politics in Hegel’s philosophy. Papers that tackle the issue historically, systematically, or in connection to contemporary questions are welcome.

Submitted papers are limited to 6,000 words, formatted for blind review, and should be accompanied by an abstract (300 words.) Papers must be submitted at this length and later adjustments must remain within this limit. All papers should be in English. Although papers presented at meetings of the Hegel Society of America are usually published as a collection of essays, publication cannot be guaranteed. By submitting a paper, however, the author agrees to reserve publication for the HSA proceedings if the paper is accepted for the program, and if the program is accepted for publication.

Please send papers (electronic submissions only) to Prof. Angelica Nuzzo (Program Chair) at anuzzo@brooklyn.cuny.edu.

Electronic Journal of Communication/La Revue Electronique de Communication

Special issue: Social media in news discourse

As professional media producers pay more attention to social media, from personal blog entries and tweets to Facebook updates and YouTube videos, journalists are faced with numerous decisions. Among these are how to integrate personal and often-relationship-focused media with the public and fact-centred discourse of the news.

This special issue of the Electronic Journal of Communication invites contributions exploring the conventions that are emerging around the use of social media by news organisations, and the implications of those conventions for public communication. Contributions will have as their central concern whether or not the encounter with social media is changing aspects of news journalism.

Possible questions arising from this concern include:

how do the forms of personal expression to be found in social media translate into news discourse?
what authority or status as ‘knowers’ is given in the news to voices from various social media?
how are specific kinds of social media typically made use of within news discourse?
how are journalism’s ethical frameworks applied to these media?
to what extent is social media content decontextualised from its online social context when used by journalism?
are social media texts produced within news organisations also used in news texts?

Papers should be 5000-7500 words in length and submitted electronically to the guest editor, Donald Matheson, at donald.matheson@canterbury.ac.nz. Deadline for completed manuscripts is 20 November 2010. The issue is scheduled for publication in the second half of 2011.

BSA ESSAY PRIZE

The British Society of Aesthetics is running an essay prize competition, open to early-career researchers in aesthetics. The winning author will receive £500 and an opportunity to present the paper at the Society’s annual conference. The winning essay will normally be published in the British Journal of Aesthetics.

The regulations for the competition are as follows:

i) Aim.
The aim of the prize is to encourage and reward new talent in the field of aesthetics.

ii) Amount.
The amount of the Prize is £500.

iii) Deadline.
The deadline for submissions is February 1, 2010.

iv) Eligibility.
The Prize is intended to foster the development of the field of aesthetics. The competition is open to anyone who has not been employed as lecturer (or equivalent) at a higher education institution for more than five years. Persons in doubt about their qualifications are encouraged to consult the secretary of the British Society of Aesthetics in advance. Entrants must include with their entry a statement indicating how they qualify. Entry is not limited to members of the BSA nor to residents of the United Kingdom.

v) Essay Content and Length.

The essay may be on any topic in aesthetics or the philosophy of art. The essay should be a maximum of 7,500 words (about 25 double-spaced typed pages).

vi) Judging.
The panel of judges will comprise members of the Executive Committee of the British Society of Aesthetics and one of the Editors of the British Journal of Aesthetics. The winning essay will normally be published in the British Journal of Aesthetics, and it is a condition of entry to the Prize competition that the essay has not been (and will not be until the result of the competition are announced) submitted for publication elsewhere. If, in the opinion of the judges, no essay that merits publication in the BJA is submitted, the prize will not be awarded. The decision of the judges is final. The prize will be presented at the 2010 BSA annual conference.

vii) Presentation.
The winning author will have the opportunity to read the paper at the 2010 annual conference of the Society. If the author is an enrolled student, they will be automatically eligible for a BSA postgraduate conference subsidy. The winner’s name will be announced in the British Journal of Aesthetics.

viii) Submission Requirements.
Submissions should be clearly identified as entries for the BSA Essay Prize and be sent electronically to the Secretary of the BSA, Kathleen Stock -email: secretaryATbritish-aesthetics.org (please replace ‘AT’ with @).Entries should be in English, and should not exceed 7,500 words in length (including footnotes). Each entry must be accompanied by an abstract not exceeding 150 words. Entries that are too long or without an abstract will not be considered. Essays should be prepared for blind review and should follow guidelines for submissions to the British Journal of Aesthetics. Each entry should contain a separate title page giving the name, institution and address of the author. Candidates should supply evidence that they are eligible for the prize. Essays will not be considered for the prize if they are currently under consideration by another journal or competition. No non-winning essay will be considered for publication in the BJA unless it has been separately submitted to that journal.

http://www.british-aesthetics.org/

We here at JWG big fans of this song. Take a gander.

We don’t know what the first thing is YOU think of when you hear that song, but for us it went like this:
MEGHAN: “Doesn’t this sound like the best video game of your DREAMS?”
ABBY: “Yeah.”
MEGHAN: “And all the characters would go around the video game world like this?” [dances in chair]
ABBY: “It’s the Jerks With Glasses game. Let’s put out a CFP.”

And so:
CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Jerks With Glasses seeks proposals for a video game themed around the general snarkiness, jerkdom, and spectacle-wearing activities of Jerks With Glasses and its Board of Directors.

PRIORITIES
Proposed games must:
- prominently incorporate “Golden Phone” by Micachu and the Shapes
- include characters that dance like Meghan
- feature copious juxtapositions and other surprising combinations of incongruent elements (the more jarring the better, obviously)
- be detrimental to participants’ eyesight (see our banner image, jerks)

ANTICIPATED OUTCOMES
- a video game, duh
- more people wearing glasses
- increased influence over public policy, international treaties, and the construction of cultural modes of production

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submit proposals to jerkswithglasses [at symbol] gmail.com by Sunday, January 31, 2010.  Proposals should include:

1. Your name and contact info
2. A brief bio
3. A work sample
4. A narrative describing the proposed game
5. A timeline for production
6. Images representing the general aesthetic of the proposed game
7. A budget (HA!  Hahahahaha!  Come on, you’re doing this for free…)

Check out this conference on “Affective Fabrics in digital cultures”. Will probably hand in a panel with some colleagues.

Affective fabrics of digital cultures: feelings,technologies, politics

3-4 June 2010
The University of Manchester

Plenary speakers:
Una Chung (Sarah Lawrence College)
Patricia Clough (Queens College, CUNY)
Anne-Marie Fortier (Lancaster University)
Melissa Gregg (The University of Sydney)
Athina Karatzogianni (The University of Hull)
Luciana Parisi (Goldsmith, University of London)

Organiser: Adi Kuntsman (RICC, The University of Manchester)

This two-day international conference brings into creative tension two fields that are receiving growing scholarly attention: cultural studies of affect, public feelings and the politics of emotion, on the one hand, and scholarship on digital culture, new media and information-communication technologies, on the other. The conference aims to create a space for intellectual dialogue between the two fields by examining the relations between technologies, and in particular, new digital technologies – the Internet, digital cinema and photography, mobile communication, CCTVs, computer games – and affective politics.

Bringing together contributions from the fields of sociology, media and cultural studies, arts, politics and science and technology studies, the conference will engage with the following questions:  How does affect work in on-line networks and digital assemblages? What are the affective regimes of on-line sociality? What kind of perceptions, sensations, affective movements and public feelings emerge in our highly mediated and digitalised environments? What is the cybertouch of war, violence, terror? What are the structures of feeling that operate in the digitalised everyday and computerised ordinary? How can we theorise psycho-political formations of nation, race, empire, population and generation in the age of digital reproduction, mediated visions and globalised communication technologies? How do digital cultures shape our political horizons of fear, anxiety, mourning, hate, hope?

We invite submission of abstracts for individual papers or roundtables. Alternative presentation formats are welcome; please contact us to discuss further options. Please send your abstract (300 words for individual papers, 500 words for roundtables) by 1st of February 2010 to Adi.kuntsman@manchester.ac.uk. Candidates will be notified by 15th of March 2010. Selected papers will be considered for post-conference publication.

http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/ricc/events/digital_affect/index.html

Cogency announces a special issue devoted to papers on Wittgenstein’s role in the development of informal logic and argumentation theory. Contributions will illustrate how Wittgenstein’s ideas have been applied (or misapplied) have aided (or have impeded) research in these inquiries.

Possible topics could include:

•    The implication of Wittgenstein’s views for argumentation theory
•    Wittgenstein’s views on formal logic
•    Wittgenstein’s influence on the development of informal logic
•    Wittgenstein and Rhetoric
•    Wittgenstein and Dialectic
•    Wittgenstein and uses of reason
•    The logic of deep disagreements

All papers will be blind refereed.

Guest Editor: Dr. Ralph H. Johnson. Submit papers to him at johnsoa@uwindsor.ca Subject line: Cogency—Special Issue on Wittgenstein

Format specifications: Papers should be in Word (or compatible program) in Times New Roman 12 pt font, single-spaced, 8000 words at most. Consult MLA Style manual for how to handle quotations and references.

Closing Date for submissions: March 1, 2010.
Publication Date: August, 2010

Centre for the Study of Argumentation and Reasoning
Faculty of Psychology
Diego Portales University
Santiago
Chile

CALL FOR PAPERS

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
LOGIC, ARGUMENTATION AND CRITICAL THINKING II

October 7-9, 2010

Keynote speakers:

Eveline Feteris, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chris Reed, University of Dundee, Scotland
Luis Vega, UNED, Spain

The organizing committee invites proposals for papers on logic, informal logic, argumentation theory, rhetoric, and critical thinking.

ABSTRACTS of 200-250 words prepared for blind refereeing must be submitted electronically no later than June 30, 2010 to Cristián Santibánez: cristian.santibanez@udp.cl

CALL FOR PAPERS:

Seventh International Workshop on

ARGUMENTATION IN MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS (ArgMAS 2010)

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/argmas/argmas10/

Toronto, Canada

10 or 11 May 2010

International Workshop to be held in conjunction with AAMAS 2010

http://www.cse.yorku.ca/AAMAS2010/

The ArgMAS Workshop series web site:

http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/irahwan/argmas/

Overview

This workshop will focus on the concepts, theories, methodologies, and applications of computational models of argumentation in building autonomous agents and multi-agent systems. Argumentation can be abstractly defined as the formal interaction of different arguments for and against some conclusion (eg, a proposition, an action intention, a preference, etc.). An agent may use argumentation techniques to perform individual reasoning, in order to resolve conflicting evidence or to decide between conflicting goals.   Multiple agents may also use dialectical argumentation in order to identify and reconcile differences between themselves, through interactions such as negotiation, persuasion, and joint deliberation.

The main goal of ArgMAS 2010 will be to bring together the community of researchers working on argumentation in multi-agent systems. The workshop has the following technical goals:

- To explore the use of argumentation in practical reasoning.

- To investigate how argumentation can be used to enable rational interaction between autonomous agents.

- To explore the applicability of argumentation for solving a variety of problems in multi-agent systems, such as information exchange, negotiation, team formation, deliberation, etc.

- To explore strategic reasoning and behavior in argumentation-based interaction.

- To understand how argumentation relates to other areas of multiagent research, such as game theory, agent communications, and planning.

- To present and encourage implemented systems which demonstrate the use of argumentation in multi-agent systems.

- The workshop will solicit papers looking at both theory and practice. In particular, the workshop aims at bridging the gap between the vast amount of work on argumentation theory and the practical needs of multi-agent systems research.

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Topics

We solicit papers dealing with, but not limited to, the following areas:

Computational models for argumentation

Argumentation-based decision making

Argumentation-based joint deliberation

Argumentation-based persuasion

Argumentation-based inquiry

Argumentation-based negotiation and conflict resolution

Argumentation and risk assessment

Argumentation for legal reasoning

Argumentation for electronic democracy

Argumentation for coordination, cooperation and team formation

Argumentation and game theory in multi-agent systems

Human-agent argumentation

Argumentation and preferences modeling

Strategic behaviour in argument-based dialogues

Deception, trust, reputation in argument-based interaction

Computational complexity of argumentation dialogues

Properties of argumentation dialogues (termination, success, etc)

Hybrid argumentation-based models

Implemented argumentation-based multi-agent systems

New application areas

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Important Dates (Strict):

Submission Deadline: 2 February 2010

Notification of Acceptance/Rejection: 2 March 2010

Camera Ready Copy Due: 7 March 2009

Workshop: 10 or 11 May 2009 (TBA)

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Publication

The proceedings of ArgMAS will be distributed at the workshop.

As with previous ArgMAS workshops, it is planned to publish revised versions of the accepted full papers in an edited book as part of the Springer Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI) series. This publication would have an ISBN number, and would be available both in printed form, as well as electronically on the SpringerLink online library.

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Submission Procedures

As with previous workshops, each ArgMAS submission will be reviewed anonymously by two members of the expert program committee.

Contributors may submit either full papers (no longer than 18 pages) or a 2-page position statement that outlines their interests, background, and discussion of an aspect of the workshop theme.

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers in the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style, since this will be the format required for the planned post-proceedings book. Formatting instructions, as well as the style and sample files, can be found here:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Papers must be submitted through the dedicated EasyChair site, which can be found via:

http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=argmas2010

At least one author of each accepted papers must register for the workshop.

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Organising Committee:

Co-Chairs:

Peter McBurney (Corresponding Organizer)

Department of Computer Science, University of Liverpool, UK

Email:   mcburney [at] liverpool.c.uk

Simon Parsons

Department of Computer and Information Science, Brooklyn College, Brooklyn, NY USA

Iyad Rahwan

Faculty of Informatics, British University in Dubai, UAE

and

School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh, UK.

TLA Plenary – Call for Papers

2010 Annual Conference of the American Society for Theatre Research-Theatre Library Association-Congress on Research in Dance

Seattle, Washington, November 18-21, 2010

Harnessing the Power of Performance:

Documentation Strategies for Theater and Dance

Throughout history, capturing performance through various media has been challenging.   Performance historians have based their work on archeological artifacts, paper records, oral history and memory, audio recordings, and film documentation of dance and theater performances.  Each method – in itself ephemeral – presents challenges due in part to limitations inherent in its physical characteristics:  images fade, paper crumbles, and memory fails.

This session will address and assess past, current, and future methodologies for harnessing the power of performance – and the extent to which these approaches and strategies support or impede research.  We invite papers addressing the many forms of documentation – from depictions of Athenian performances on vases to computer-generated dance notation/animation.

Papers might consider:

• How do documentation strategies negotiate, undermine, or emphasize power?
• How do developments and changes in technology impact performance studies?
• How do cultural politics and the power of societal perceptions of theater and dance affect performance documentation?
• How do documentation strategies or models strengthen or undermine our understanding and appreciation of performance?
• How have theater and dance practitioners, librarians and scholars collaborated to develop effective documentation strategies?
• What are the limitations and drawbacks of video and film documentation of performance?
• How will the proliferation of born-digital objects impact documentation of theater and dance?
• Do artists have the ethical right to resolve that their work may perish with them?

Please submit one-page Proposal as e-mail attachment by February 15, 2010 to:

Susan Brady, Chair, TLA Plenary Program Committee

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University

Susan.Brady@yale.edu

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L’appel de propositions pour le congrès annuel de la Société de Philosophie du Québec est lancé depuis octobre et se termine dans les prochaines semaines. Les membres de la communauté philosophique montréalaise et québécoise sont tous invités à soumettre leurs propositions de communications, de symposiums ou de tables rondes. Le thème proposé cette année est "esprit et nature" (voir l’appel de propositions en PDF sur la page de la SPQ sur http://www.er.uqam.ca/nobel/philuqam/spq/index.php?section=congres2010 pour de plus amples détails).

Notez que les propositions de contribution n’ont pas à se limiter au thème proposé. Comme à chaque année, le congrès annuel de la SPQ fait appel à des communications, des symposiums et des tables rondes touchant autant le thème proposé que tous les domaines de la philosophie. Ainsi, tous ceux et celles qui désirent participer au congrès de 2010 peuvent nous soumettre leurs propositions de communication, de table ronde autour d’un ouvrage récent d’un auteur québécois ou étranger ou de symposium relatif à un auteur, une problématique ou un thème donné.

Enfin, j’attire particulièrement votre attention sur le fait qu’uniquement les propositions de communications libres ou de symposiums directement soumises à la SPQ pourront être considérées et intégrées au programme du congrès. Afin de vous assurer de pouvoir tenir votre communication, votre symposium ou votre table ronde dans le cadre du congrès de la SPQ, il est primordial d’adresser votre proposition uniquement à la SPQ. Les propositions soumises à l’Acfas ne pourront être considérées.

Procédure à suivre pour soumettre des propositions de communications, tables rondes ou symposiums :

Projets de communication libre : vous devez faire parvenir votre communication par courrier électronique à frechette.guillaume@gmail.com, au plus tard le 16 janvier 2010. Il doit s’agir d’un document en format DOC (Word) ou RTF, d’un maximum de 3000 mots, comprenant sur la première page un résumé de 75 mots. Notez que ce document ne doit comporter aucun renseignement permettant d’identifier l’auteur, puisqu’il sera ensuite envoyé aux membres du comité scientifique. Vous y joindrez en attachement le formulaire word Proposition de communication libre dûment rempli. Ce formulaire est disponible sur le site web de la SPQ au http://spq.uqam.ca, dans la section ‘Congrès 2010’.

Projets de table ronde ou de symposium : Les projets de tables rondes et de symposia doivent être adressés à frechette.guillaume@gmail.com avant le 22 décembre 2009. Ceux-ci doivent comprendre a) une description du projet ; b) une liste des conférenciers pressentis ainsi que le titre et le résumé de chacune des communications ; c) une version préliminaire du programme de l’activité.

Prix SPQ des meilleurs textes étudiants :
Deux prix seront décernés aux meilleurs textes étudiants soumis comme propositions de communication libre pour le colloque de la SPQ. Les candidats doivent s’identifier comme tels dans le formulaire word.

Bien cordialement, et dans l’attente de vos propositions qui j’espère seront nombreuses,

Guillaume Fréchette

responsable des colloques et congrès

Société de Philosophie du Québec
frechette.guillaume@uqam.ca
http://spq.uqam.ca

Call for poster presentations (FRENCH VERSION BELOW)

Summer Institute in Cognitive Science: The origins of language
21-30 June 2010, Montreal

You are invited to submit an abstract for a poster presentation to be displayed at the Summer Institute on The origins of language. The Institute is organized by the Cognitive Science Institute (UQAM, Montreal), the Université René Descartes (Paris) and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Leipzig).

When in human evolution did language appear? Did it appear suddenly or gradually? What were the physiological, cognitive, and social prerequisites of language? The Summer Institute will bring together 40 of the world leading specialists of these questions, among which Michael Arbib, Terrence Deacon, Stevan Harnad, Ray Jackendoff, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Duane Rumbaugh, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Maggie Tallerman, Ian Tattersall, Michael Tomasello, Stephanie White, and David Sloan Wilson.

Presentations from graduate, postgraduate, and faculty members working on The origins of language in any of the following disciplines are welcome: Anthropology, Archaeology, Computer Sciences, Linguistics, Neurosciences, Paleontology, Philosophy, Psychology, or Zoology.

***Registration is mandatory to attend and present a poster at the Summer Institute.

Submissions

Poster abstracts must not exceed 300 words and should be sent attached to an e-mail message containing the following information:

Title of the abstract
Author’s name
Affiliation
Discipline (Anthropology, Archaeology, Computer Sciences, Linguistics, Neurosciences, Paleontology, Philosophy, Psychology, or Zoology)
Author’s e-mail address and telephone number.

For submission and additional information:
http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca

Timetable

Submissions will be accepted from 1 December 2009 to 31 January 2010.
Notifications of acceptance will be sent to authors by 28 February 2010.

Appel à présentation par affiche

Institut d’été en sciences cognitives: L’origine du langage
21 au 30 juin 2010, Montréal

Vous êtes invités à soumettre une proposition d’affiche à présenter dans le cadre de l’Institut d’été sur L’origine du langage, organisé conjointement par l’Institut des sciences cognitives de l’UQAM (Montréal), l’Université René Descartes (Paris) et l’Institut Max Planck en Anthropologie évolutionnaire (Leipzig).

À quel moment dans l’évolution humaine le langage est-il apparu? Est-il apparu soudainement ou graduellement? Quels facteurs physiologiques, cognitifs et sociaux lui ont permis d’évoluer? L’Institut regroupera 40 des meilleurs chercheurs au monde sur ces questions, parmi lesquels Michael Arbib, Terrence Deacon, Stevan Harnad, Ray Jackendoff, Giacomo Rizzolatti, Duane Rumbaugh, Sue Savage-Rumbaugh, Dan Sperber, Kim Sterelny, Maggie Tallerman, Ian Tattersall, Michael Tomasello, Stephanie White, and David Sloan Wilson.

Les propositions provenant des étudiants des cycles supérieurs, des chercheurs postdoctoraux et des professeurs travaillant sur l’origine du langage dans les domaines suivants sont les bienvenues : anthropologie, archéologie, informatique, linguistique, neurosciences, paléontologie, philosophie, psychologie et zoologie.

***L’inscription est obligatoire pour assister à l’Institut d’été et y présenter une affiche.

Soumissions

Le résumé de la proposition d’affiche ne doit pas dépasser 300 mots et doit être joint à un courriel comprenant les informations suivantes :

Le titre du résumé
Le nom de l’auteur
Son affiliation
Sa discipline (anthropologie, archéologie, informatique, linguistique, neuroscience, paléontologie, philosophie, psychologie, ou zoologie)
Son adresse courriel et son numéro de téléphone.

Pour soumettre une proposition ou obtenir davantage d’information:
http://www.summer10.isc.uqam.ca

Calendrier

Les soumissions seront acceptées entre le 1er décembre 2009 et le 31 janvier 2010.
Les réponses seront envoyées aux auteurs avant le 28 février 2010.