University of Vigo, 25-27 November 2004
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University of Vigo, 25-27 November 2004 |
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Third circular
| Dear participant,
As we are getting closer to our meeting at the LMEC2 Conference, the following information concerning the venue, transport, and social programme will be of interest to you. The venue has been changed to Club Financiero Vigo (CFV) for reasons of convenience. (Click here for a view: http://webs.uvigo.es/lmec2/venue.htm) The building is in the city centre, within easy walking distance from the hotel Zenith-Lisboa. We hope that the new venue is of your liking. If you are travelling to Vigo by plane, the best means to get from the airport to the city centre is by taxi. You will find a taxi rank immediately as you come out of the terminal. The estimated cost of the ride from the airport to the hotel is 14 €. Remember that three of the social events of the conference are a folk-music concert (‘Nao d’Ire’) on the Thursday evening, a formal dinner on the Friday and a coach trip to Baiona on the Saturday afternoon. The folk music concert will take place in the pub “Sete Mares”, which is half-way between the venue and the hotel Zenith-Lisboa. The formal dinner will be held at CFV. Please let us know if you are a vegetarian. The trip to Baiona will include a guided tour of the old part of the town and the Monterreal Fort, a precint located on the Mount Boi peninsula and surrounded by 3 kms of walls dating back to the Middle Ages. You will also have the opportunity to visit the hotel Parador de Baiona, which is located inside the precint overlooking Baiona Bay and the Atlantic. At the Parador you will be offered a farewell wine. We have created an electronic discussion
list which allows you to send messages to all the conference participants
(including the organising committee, the plenary lecturers, the communication/workshop
presenters, etc). The relevant e-mail addresses are thus as follows:
We are looking forward to meeting you at the conference. The organising committee: Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso, Dolores González-Álvarez, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Esperanza Rama-Martínez |
Second circular
| Dear Participant,
The Organising Committee is pleased
to inform you that a preliminary programme of the Conference is now on
our web page (http://webs.uvigo.es/lmec2/prog.htm),
containing abstracts of papers and indicating the date and time for each
speaker.
The organising committee: Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso, Dolores González-Álvarez, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Esperanza Rama-Martínez |
Call for papers (first circular)
| The University
of Vigo, through its Department
of English, is organizing the Second International Conference on
the English Language in the Late Modern Period 1700-1900 (LMEC2),
which will take place in Vigo, 25th-27th November 2004. It is our aim to
follow the path already unfolded by our colleagues at the University of
Edinburgh in 2001 by presenting and evaluating ongoing research in the
syntax, lexis, phonology, sociolinguistics, etc. of the period in question.
Since the topic is still very much alive in the minds of everyone devoted to historical linguistics, we consider it a good idea to summon the LModE fellowship again in Vigo with several aims to pay heed to: a) what is the status of the projects we all presented at the Edinburgh Conference?, b) how many areas of the period are still unexplored?, c) what projects could be presented to tread on those relatively new linguistic territories?, etc. As this constitutes an almost never-ending list of research topics, we set out this Call for Papers by means of which we invite you to submit your proposals – papers and/or workshops – to participate in the Conference. The papers will last twenty minutes with a discussion of around ten minutes, whereas the workshops will cover either 60 or 90 minutes. Abstracts should be no longer than 300 words and take up one page only (including references), and may be submitted in hard copy or electronically to the e-mail address below, by 30th April 2004. It is the intention of the Conference organisers to promote the publication of an edited and peer-reviewed volume to include some of the material presented at the Conference. The following guest speakers have already confirmed their attendance: Prof. Laurel Brinton (British Columbia), Prof. Teresa Fanego (Santiago de Compostela), Prof. Bernd Kortmann (Freiburg) and Prof. Merja Kytö (Uppsala). If you are interested in attending the Conference do not hesitate to contact the organisers at the earliest. Abstracts, queries and comments should be sent to: Second Late Modern English Conference (LMEC2), Department of English, Facultade de Filoloxía e Traducción, University of Vigo, Campus Lagoas-Marcosende, E-36200 Vigo (Spain) E-mail: lmec2@uvigo.es, website: http://webs.uvigo.es/lmec2, phone: +34 986812350 / 13958 / 12365 / 13959, fax: +34 986812380 The organising committee: Jorge L. Bueno-Alonso, Dolores González-Álvarez, Javier Pérez-Guerra, Esperanza Rama-Martínez |