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call for papers - english
NOTE! The deadline for paper proposals has
been
extended until 31 January 2007.
CALL FOR PAPERS: 9TH WORLD CONGRESS OF IASS-AIS
COMMUNICATION: UNDERSTANDING / MISUNDERSTANDING
This is the first call for papers for the 9th World Congress of
Semiotics, to be held on June 11-17, 2007 at the University of
Helsinki, and at International Semiotics Institute at Imatra. The
congress will take place in the two locations as follows:
Helsinki: Monday–Wednesday, 11-13 June 2007; Imatra:
Thursday–Sunday, 14-17 June 2007.
Deadline for submissions: November 30, 2006. You may send
your submissions earlier than the given deadline, and receive the
official acceptance letter from the Committee within one month from the
receipt of your proposal (as proof to obtain funding from your home
institutions).
Content of proposal: (1) an abstract of approximately 300
words; (2) a short CV, including professional / institutional
affiliation (maximum length: 1 page).
Proposals may be sent as follows: (1) as word-processing (.rtf or .doc) file attachments to:
iass-9@helsinki.fi (2) or as
print-copy + file on disk via regular mail to: IASS 9 Local Organizing
Committee International Semiotics Institute, Imatra Cultural Center,
Virastokatu 1, 55100 Imatra, FINLAND.
Fees: The participation fee for the congress is 180 Euros
(125 Euros for students), which should be paid to the bank account of
the congress no later than March 31, 2007. After this date, the
participation fee will be raised to 240 Euros. The fee includes two
buffet receptions, one-way transportation from Helsinki to Imatra by a
special congress train, plus materials and services during the event.
The congress does not pay
travel expenses except for those of the Board and plenary speakers.
There are some grants available to scholars that are attending the
congress as active participants from countries outside the EU except
Norway, Switzerland, US, Canada, Australia and Japan.
The proceedings of the congress will be published as an anthology in
the international
series Acta Semiotica Fennica.
The accepted languages of the congress and the publication are the
official ones of the IASS-AIS: English, French, Spanish and German.
Very
sincerely yours / Très cordialement / Atentamente / Mit den besten Grüssen
Eero
Tarasti, President of the IASS-AIS
José
Maria Paz Gago, Secretary General of the IASS-AIS
The
local organising committee / Le Comité d’Organisation Local / El Comité
Organizador local / Das Örtliches Organisationskomitee
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