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Upcoming Conferences on Metaphor and Applications in Various Fields

 

Research and Application of Metaphor (RaAM) International Association, (Seventh international conference):  Metaphor in Cross-Cultural Communication, University of Extremadura, Cáceres, Spain, 29 - 31 May 2008.

III International Conference of Metaphor in Language and Thought, State University of Ceara, Fortaleza-Ceara, Brazil, October  21st - 24th,  2008.

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International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.,  3-6 July 2008.

Association for Conflict Resolution Family Section Bi-Annual Conference, Park City, Utah, U.S.A., 24-27 July 2008.

Association for Conflict Resolution (ACR) 8th Annual Conference, Austin, Texas, U.S.A., 24 - 27 September 2008.

 

Links to Other Conference Listings:

Researching and Applying Metaphor International Association Events Calendar lists its own and possible other organizations' conferences on metaphor.

The Association for Conflict Resolution has a web page listing conferences (not always kept up to date).

World Mediation Forum has a web page listing international conferences.

Scottish Mediation Network has a resource page of interest.

 

Other conferences in 2008 that metaphor scholars might be interested in attending:

The Stockholm 2008 Metaphor Festival: Invitation to submit abstracts

Both linguists and literary scholars are invited to submit abstracts for a talk or a poster presentation at The Stockholm 2008 Metaphor Festival, which will be on Thursday 18 and Friday 19 September 2008 at the English Department, Stockholm University. Abstract by Monday 21 January 2008, sent to the following email address: Metaphorfestival@English.su.se . Each talk will be allotted 30 minutes at the Festival, roughly 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for discussion. Information about acceptance of abstracts will be emailed to you in late February/early March.

Abstracts on talks and poster presentations from different research perspectives, dealing with many different aspects of the field of figurative language and its occurrence in various types of natural language communication. In other words, contributions to the Festival can be about the character and use of tropes such as metaphor, metonymy, simile, oxymoron, hyperbole and punning, as well as on the character and use of schemes such as end rhyme, alliteration and parallelism.

There is more information about the Metaphor Festival on: www.english.su.se/research/metaphorfestival

The 5th International Contrastive Linguistics Conference will be taking place in Leuven Belgium, 7th – 9th July, 2008. More information is available at: http://www.arts.kuleuven.be/ICLC5/

The third conference on Language, Culture, Mind will take place July 14-16, 2008, this time at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense.  The special theme is “social life and meaning construction”.  Abstracts are being accepted until the end of December: http://www.lcm.sdu.dk

The Poetics and Linguistics Association will be holding its annual conference on the topic of Time and the Text on 23rd - 26th July 2008 at the University of Sheffield, UK. More information is available at: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/pala2008/index.html

A conference on Language, Communication and Cognition will take place August 4-7, 2008, at the Univ. of Brighton, UK.  It will include a theme session on "The socio-cultural, cognitive and neurological bases of metaphor".  Details can be found at: http://www.languageandcognition.net/

The Third International Conference of the German Cognitive Linguistics Association will be taking place in Leipzig, Germany, September 25 - 27, 2008. More information is available at: http://webapp.rrz.uni-hamburg.de/~DGKL/GCLA_08/ .

  Conferences Yet to Be Announced:

World Mediation Forum (WMF) VIIth International Conference

The 4rd International Biennale on Negotiation,  Paris, at NEGOCIA

The Mediators' Institute of Ireland (MII) Annual Conference,

European Mediation Conference 2010, a project of European Mediation Network Initiative (EMNI).