Past Conferences and Workshops

• 3rd International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL3)
  11-13 September, 2009. Paris, France.
  

  After the two successful meetings of Leipzig (2005) and Hamburg (2007), the Third International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL3) will be held at the University of Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris. We expressly solicit contributions from the full range of Iranian linguistics, including formal theoretical perspectives, typological and functional perspectives, diachronic and areal perspectives, sociolinguistics, computational linguistics and language acquisition. Organizing committee: Geoffrey Haig (Kiel University), Simin Karimi (University of Arizona), Agnes Korn (University of Frankfurt), Pollet Samvelian (University of Paris 3 - Sorbonne Nouvelle) Keynote speakers: Richard Larson (Stony Brook University) and Nicholas Sims-Williams (SOAS) Submission Deadline: 28 February, 2009. We invite submissions of abstracts for papers (20-minute presentation plus 10-minute discussion). Abstracts must be anonymous. They should be at most 2 pages in length (A4), including examples and references. Authors may be involved in at most two submissions and may be the sole author of at most one abstract. Abstracts can be submitted via email to icil3@univ-paris3.fr.

  
  
• 3rd International Conference of Cognitive Science
  3-5 March, 2009. Tehran, Iran.
  

  The Third International Conference of Cognitive Science is an international gathering of cognitive scientists from different countries that will be held by the Institute for Cognitive Science Studies. Conference topics will include cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy of mind, and cognitive linguistics, with an emphasis on Cognitive Education. Organized by the Institute for Cognitive Science Studies, Iran Submission Deadline: 21 September, 2008. Abstracts can be submitted through the Abstract submission page.

  
  
  
• Middle Persian Lexicography Workshop
  20-22 December, 2008. The Israeli Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem.
  The workshop was devoted to presentation of papers and discussions relating to Middle Persian and more broadly Middle Iranian lexicography, semantics, textual editions, and closely related issues. Organized by the Middle Persian Dictionary Project
  
  
• Languages and dialects in Iran
  28-31 October, 2008. University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.
  The purpose of the conference was to stimulate linguistic research in Iran by creating a network of field linguists interested in the study of languages and dialects in Iran in their sociolinguistic milieu. Organized by the University of Sistan and Balochestan and Uppsala University's Iranian Languages program.
  Plenary Speakers: Prof. Ali Ashraf Sadeghi (University of Tehran), Prof. Emeritus Bo Utas (Uppsala University), and Prof. Gernot Windfuhr (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
  
  
• Critical Retrospectives on Iranian Linguistics
  July 31-August 3, 2008; Toronto.
  Linguistics panel at Seventh biennial conference of ISIS (International Society for Iranian Studies)
  The aim of the panel was to bring together scholars who work on different aspects of Iranian linguistics, and to promote collaboration and scholarly exchanges between academic colleagues working in the area of Iranian Studies.
  Keynote Speaker: Dr. Mohammad Reza Bateni (Farhang-e Moaser Publisher)
  
  
• International Conference on Complex Predicates in Iranian Languages
  July 5-6, 2008; Paris, France.
  Complex predicates are generally defined as predicates that are composed of more than one grammatical element (either morphemes or words), each of which contributes part of the information ordinarily associated with a single head. The conference was intended to cover analyses of complex predicates in languages belonging to the Iranian language family, in a range of different frameworks (theoretical, computational, functional, typological, historical, etc.). Handouts and slides of presentations can be found on the conference website.
  
  
• Workshop on Persian Language and Computer
  This site contains links to the papers from the 1st and 2nd wokrshops, held in Tehran University, Iran, in 2004 and 2006.
  
  
• International Conference on Iranian Linguistics (ICIL)
  ICIL1 website, June 2005, Leipzig, Germany. Abstracts of talks posted.
  ICIL2 website, August 2007, Hamburg, Germany. Abstracts of talks posted.
  
  

  Documenting Endangered Iranian Languages
  The Summer School was held in August 2007 at Kiel, Germany. It aimed at providing students and researchers a solid grounding in the objectives, theory and practice of language documentation. It is tailored specifically to meet the requirements of documenting endangered Iranian languages.
  
  

  Computational Approaches to Arabic Script-based Languages (CAASL)
  The workshop has been held in August 2004 and July 2007 and aims to bring together scholars working on the computational processing of arabic script-based languages which include Persian, Balochi, Kurdish, Pashto, Azerbaijani, among others. All papers presented at the workshops are available on the website.
  
  

  International Conference on Balochistan Studies
  The theme of this conference was Pluralism in Balochistan and it was held in August 2005 at Uppsala University.
  
  

  Discourses of Memory in Iranian Langauges
  The conference was held in Paris in February 2006, and focused on aspects of memory, oral history and oral tradition in Iranian languages and their rold in developing national and community identities. Abstracts posted.
  
  

  Irano-Armenian Workshop on Neural Networks
  The workshop was held in February 2004 in Tehran, Iran. Session 3 was a "Minisymposium on Neurocognitive and Computational Linguistics". No abstracts or papers are posted from this session. [Main site]