Special Issue for AI and Society Journal
Call for Papers: Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication

www.bdk.rug.nl/onderzoek/castor/
The home page for the CASTOR Project (Conversion and Semiotic Theories of Organization and Representation). This is a research project on Innovation, Knowledge Conversion and Representation.

Ergo's 1st Annual Parsing Contest

Creating the Other: The causes and dynamics of nationalism, ethnic enmity, and racism in central and eastern europe
Minneapolis, MN, USA: May 6-8, 1999

Amstelogue'99: Amsterdam Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue
May 7-9, 1999: University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Parlevink Research Group
University of Twente/CTIT, Enschede, The Netherlands: May 19-21, 1999

Workplace Studies Symposium
Manchester, England: May 21, 1999

3rd Multidisciplinary Conference on Holidays, Ritual, Festival, Celebration, and Public Display
Bowling Green, OH, USA: May 21-23, 1999

Intersections: Medieval and Postmodern Forms, Theory and Semiotics
Hamilton, ON, Canada: May 28-29, 1999

Gendered Landscapes: An interdisciplinary exploration of past places and space
State College, PN, USA: May 29-June 1, 1999

PRAGMA99
International Pragmatics Conference on Pragmatics and Negotiation
Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel: June 13-16, 1999

15th Colloquium of the International Association for the Semiotics of Law (IASL)
Theme: Law And Religion
Arrabida, Portugal: June 17-20 1999

ED-MEDIA / ED-TELECOM 99
World Conference on Educational Multimedia/Hypermedia and Educational Telecommunications
Seattle, Washington USA: June 19-24, 1999

Researching and Applying Metaphor III
Metaphor Across Languages: Translation and Intercultural Communication, Including Literature
Tilburg University: June 30 - July 2, 1999

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA) Conference
Typological Research on Signed Languages: Cognition and Discourse Structure
Stockholm, Sweden: July 1999

6th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference
Call for Abstracts: First and Second Language Acquisition
Stockholm, Sweden: July 11-16, 1999

Third Workshop On Human-Computer Conversation
Bellagio, Italy: July 12-14, 1999

ICCS'99
Seventh International Conference on Conceptual Structures
Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia USA: July 12-15, 1999

IASCL Conference:
International Congress for the Study of Child Language
San Sebastian, Spain: July 12-16, 1999

Visual Cultures & Visual Literacies: Changing Ways of Imaging Science & Society
1999 Annual Conference - International Visual Sociology Association
University of Antwerp, Belgium: July 14-18, 1999

Second International Conference on Cognitive Science (ICCS'99)
Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan: July 27-30, 1999

Logic Colloquium '99: European Summer Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic
University of Utrecht, Netherlands: August 1-6, 1999

The Twenty-Sixth LACUS Forum
Linguistics Association of Canada and the United States
University Of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: August 2-7, 1999

Language, Vision & Music
The Eighth International Workshop on the Cognitive Science of Natural Language Processing (CSNLP-8)
National University of Ireland (NUI Galway), Galway, Ireland: August 9-11, 1999

Mind-IV: Two Sciences Of Mind
Mind-4 is the official annuual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society of Ireland.
Dublin City University, Dublin Ireland: August 16-19, 1999

Cognitive Science Society Conference
Vancouver BC, Canada: August 19-21, 1999

Symposium on Cybernetics and SemioticsSymposium on Cybernetics and Semiotics
The International Association for Cybernetics
Namur, Belgium: 28 August 1998

Fifth International Early Fall School of Semiotics: EFSS '99
Semiotic Space And Cultural Time
New Bulgarian University, Plovdiv, Bulgaria: September 14-18, 1999

EUROCALL'99
Besancon, France: September 15-18, 1999

Computational Semiotic Systems II
Theory, Implementation, Semiotic Relevance
Dresden, Technical University, Dresden, Germany: October 4-5,7-8

Abduction and System at the International Congress of the IASS-AIS
Dresden University, Germany: October 6-11, 1999

7th International Pragmatics Conference
Budapest, Hungary: early July 2000

Pragmatics: Critical Concepts
Edited by Asa Kasher, Tel Aviv University, Israel

ETHNO/CA NEWS
Web site with various kinds of information on ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
http://www.pscw.uva.nl/emca/index.htm

NGDA-L
New listserv to discuss the National Graphic Design Image Database at The Cooper Union School of Art

G.A.I.L.A.: Grupo Autonomo de Investigaciones en Linguistica Aplicada
San Juan, Argentina
A new research institute concerned mainly with problems of Teaching English as a Foreign Language (TEFL), researching Foreign Language Learning and coordinating courses and debates on different topics within this general subject.

The American Sign Language Linguistic Research Project
Boston University, Gallaudet University, and Rutgers University

Discourse Studies
An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Text and Talk

The Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, Theory and Interpretation (ASCA)
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

PHIL-LIT e-mail list service
Philosophy and Literature, the interdisciplinary journal published by the Johns Hopkins University Press, sponsors an electronic-mail list service for philosophers and literary critics, scholars, and theorists.

Linguistic Abstracts On-line
Linguistics Abstracts On-line is designed to revolutionize your research and teaching by giving you immediate access via the internet to abstracts from virtually all linguistics articles published since 1985.

Web site for legal theory
Feminist legal studies, International Journal for the Semiotics of Law, Law and Critique, Liverpool Law Review, Res Publica, Legal Semiotics Monographs

Fundamentals of Argumentation Theory
A Handbook of Historical Backgrounds and Contemporary Developments

Journal of Memetics: Evolutionary Models of Information Transmission
Sponsored by the Centre for Policy Modelling, the Prinicipia Cybernetica Project, and SEPA, Delft University of Technology

Metaphor Database
It contains many real-discourse examples of metaphorical descriptions of mental states and processes. It also contains some examples of the use of metonymy in mental state descriptions. In addition, the databank points to related research papers on metaphors of mind and on an implemented AI system for metaphor-based reasoning about beliefs.

Ethnographic Studies
Ethnographic Studies is a journal for work in ethnography and ethnomethodology. Its aim is to promote qualitative inquiry in the human sciences.

CHAOS
Centre for Hyperincursion and Anticipation in Ordered Systems
Liège, Belgium

SEMCOM
SEMCOM is the Online bulletin of the Commission on Semiotics and Communication, National Communication Association.

Architectural Anthropology Home Page
A home page dedicated to architectural anthropology, habitat research, and the habitat theory of culture.

Discourse and Argumentation Studies
at the University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, The Netherlands

International Research Group on Semiotics of Reasoning and Abductive Inference
New Group at the University of Frankfurt
Frankfurt, Germany

Technical University of Berlin
"Kognition und Kontext"
The Interdisciplinary Research Project
Berlin, Germany

Technical University of Berlin
"Gesture Recognition with SensorGloves"
The Interdisciplinary Research Project
Berlin, Germany

Elementa
The Journal of Slavic Studies and Comparative Cultural Semiotics