Call for papers for the conference
University of Niš, Serbia
Faculty of Philosophy
6-7 December 2024
Quick info:
Topic: The schematic basis of meaning in language, music, and visual cognition.
Confirmed plenary speakers: Ray Jackendoff (Tufts / MIT), Todd Oakley (CWRU), Beate Hampe (Erfurt)
Abstract submission to https://forms.gle/bFLkpxz6FEg14uno7, by 1 Aug 2024.
We are pleased to announce the first call for papers for the conference “Schemas in Language, Music, and Visual Cognition,” to be held on December 6th and 7th 2024, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Niš, Serbia. The broader field of interest for the conference is cognitive science, which has yielded a plethora of opportunities for interdisciplinary endeavors that bring together philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, linguists, musicologists, media and AI researchers, computer scientists, engineers, and other experts from various fields. Within such a complex area, this conference will tackle the problem of meaning construction, in particular the notion of (conceptual) schematicity, its dynamic nature, potential for interaction, and overall role in generating semiosis.
We cordially invite submissions from linguists, psychologists, computer scientists, musicologists, media researchers and other experts from related fields and disciplines, whose research pursues topics dealing with schematicity in meaning construction in various contexts. Contributions dealing with schematicity related to image schemas, conceptual primitives, cross-modal correspondences, conceptual metaphor and metonymy, multimodality, in language, music and visual cognition will be particularly welcome. Also, we welcome research dealing with schematicity in the broader sense, i.e., studies dedicated to mental models, situation models, and semantic frames, all of which operate at a “macro-schematic” level which has a more pronounced connection with background knowledge structures and provides broader schematic structures of various types of discourse and interactions within the discourse.
Possible topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
Confirmed plenary speakers:
Ray Jackendoff, professor emeritus of philosophy, Tufts University / research affiliate, Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA)
Todd Oakley, professor of cognitive science, Case Western Reserve University (USA)
Beate Hampe, professor of linguistics, University of Erfurt (Germany)
Abstract Submission to: https://forms.gle/bFLkpxz6FEg14uno7
Abstract Submission Deadline: August 1st, 2024.
Notifications of acceptance by September 1st, 2024.
Early Bird discount for Conference Fee Payments: 80 EUR (until October 20th 2024)
Regular Conference Fee: 100 EUR.
Ph.D. Student Conference Fee: 60 EUR.
Payment deadline: November 1st, 2024.
Book of Abstracts will be published by the end of November 2024.
Conference Program and Panel Schedules will be posted by the end of November 2024.
More practical details, including travel info, will be posted early in the summer.
The official language of the conference is English.
E-mail: schemas.conference@filfak.ni.ac.rs
The conference is supported by the Serbian Science Fund through the SCHEMAS project (Structuring Concept Generation with the Help of Metaphor, Analogy and Schematicity, Grant No. 7715934). It is organized jointly by the Faculty of Philosophy and the Center for Cognitive Sciences, University of Niš.
Academic Committee
Mihailo Antović, Vladimir Ž. Jovanović, Biljana Mišić Ilić, Ivana Mitić, Miloš Tasić, Vladimir Figar, Aleksandra Janić (U Niš), Dušan Stamenković (U Södertörn), Wei-lun Lu, (U Masaryk, Brno), George Athanasopoulos (Humboldt U), Janina Wildfeuer (U Groningen), Robert Kiełtyka (U Rzeszow), Mario Brdar (U Osijek), Renee Timmers (U Sheffield).
Abstracts submission: https://forms.gle/bFLkpxz6FEg14uno7
Abstracts are invited for an oral presentation (20min)
Abstract should be no more than 300 words long, not including references and up to 5 keywords.