Call for papers

2nd Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS)

INTERACTING BODIES - CORPS EN INTERACTION

École normale supérieure Lettres et Sciences humaines Lyon-France June 15-18 2005

The 2005 conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS), Interacting Bodies, will be held at the École normale supérieure Lettres & Sciences Humaines (ENS-LSH) in Lyon, France, from June 15 through June 18 2005. The conference is intended to convene the state of the art in research on bodily conduct, gesture and gaze in human interaction. It includes :

  Plenary lectures by invited speakers.

  Individual communications : 20 min. lecture, 10 min. discussion, selected on the basis of an abstract (2000 characters including spaces) due for November 25, 2004.

  Thematic panels : one or more 90 min. sessions including up to 3 individual communications. The thematic panels focus on a well defined common research topic. They can bring together researchers from various countries, institutions and disciplines and they are selected on the basis of a written proposal which includes a general introduction on the thematic focus of the panel as well as the individual communication abstracts (2000 characters each including spaces).

  Project panels : one or more 90 min. sessions including up to 3 individual communications. The project panels yield a special locus for the presentation of currently ongoing research projects that are established in well institutionalized contexts (research labs, public as well as private national and international scientific networks etc.). Proposals for project panels should include a general presentation of the project content and objectives as well as the individual communication abstracts (2000 characters each including spaces).

  Data sessions : 45 min. presentation, discussion and collective analysis of one short significant piece of data. The number of participants of these sessions will be restricted and a primary discussant will be proposed by the congress organization. Proposals for data sessions are due for November 25, 2004 and should include a brief description of the type of data as well as indications with regard to their duration, their transcription and the necessary equipment for their display.

  Posters : special slots for poster communications will be included in the congress program. The abstracts for the posters are due for November 25, 2004 (2000 characters).

The congress languages are English, French and German and the proposals for this call for papers can be written in any one of them. However, we strongly encourage congress participants to prepare translations of their abstracts (as well as of their handouts, examples and other materials) in at least one second language.

A selection of the congress papers will be published on the internet.

SUBMISSION OF PROPOSALS

Please submit your proposal (RTF format) by November 25, 2004, by email only, as an attached file (in RTF) at the following address :

gesture-lyon2005@ens-lsh.fr

Please send your message with two separate attachments :

  the title of the 1st file must be your name and first name : the content of the file should include your name, your address, your e-mail, your affiliation, the title of your abstract and the kind of proposal ((Individual communication / Thematic panel / Project panel / Data session / Poster).

  the title of the 2nd file must be the title of your paper : the content of the file should include the title of your abstract and the abstract itself (2000 signs).

Acceptance notifications will be sent to the authors on January 30, 2004 (by e-mail only).