Friday, February 22, 2013

Deadline extended: Methods in Biolinguistics Workshop

The deadline for abstracts for the Methods in Biolinguistics Workshop at the 2013 LSA Summer Institute has been extended to March 15. Please see the original announcement for details.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

CFP: ESHE 3rd Annual Meeting

European Society for the Study of Human Evolution (ESHE) 3rd Annual Meeting
Vienna, Austria - September 20-21, 2013
http://www.eshe.eu/meetings.html

From the ESHE website:
We are pleased to announce the 3rd annual ESHE Meeting in Vienna, Austria. The meeting will be hosted by the local organizer Professor Gerhard Weber, from the Department of Anthropology at the University of Vienna. On Thursday 19 September, the eve of the opening of the meeting, a special Keynote presentation will be given by Professor Tecumseh Fitch, from the University of Vienna, on the evolution of speech, language and music. The meeting will be held on Friday 20 and Saturday 21 September in the spectacular Groβer Festsaal and Kleiner Festsaal at the University of Vienna. Each day will be composed of plenary podium sessions in the morning, specialized workshops in the afternoon and poster sessions in the early evening. An open bar will be organized during the first poster session on Friday and on Saturday evening a General Assembly of the members of the society will take place, followed by a closing party at a traditional Austrian ‘Heuriger’. On Sunday, 22 September an optional excursion will be offered to some of Austria’s most important archaeological sites, namely Willendorf and Krems Wachtberg, and will include a cruise along the beautiful Wachau section of the Danube river.

Abstracts are due on May 31, 2013.

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