4.0864 Conferences: Music Analysis; Semiotics of Law (2/224)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Sun, 6 Jan 91 16:51:07 EST

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0864. Sunday, 6 Jan 1991.


(1) Date: Fri, 04 Jan 91 11:33:20 SET (140 lines)
From: Lelio Camilleri <CONSERVA@IFIIDG.FI.CNR.IT>
Subject: 2nd European Conference on Music Analysis

(2) Date: Fri, 4 Jan 91 05:43:38 EST (84 lines)
From: Bernard Jackson <LA06@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Conference Info

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Date: Fri, 04 Jan 91 11:33:20 SET
From: Lelio Camilleri <CONSERVA@IFIIDG.FI.CNR.IT>
Subject: 2nd European Conference on Music Analysis

SECOND EUROPEAN CONFERENCE OF MUSIC ANALYSIS
TRENTO (ITALY) 24-27 OCTOBER 1991
FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

The conference has been organized by the Group for the Analysis
and Theory of Music (GATM), the Accademia Filarmonica Trentina
and the University of Trento. It takes up and continues the
work of the conference organized at Colmar in 1989 by the
Societe Francaise d'Analyse Musicale. It proposes to
discuss above all several problems which have emerged in
research during the past few years, ones which the classical
tradition of analysis has so far touched upon only marginally.
The conference will also take account of the fact that
analysis is not solely the preserve of specialist
expertise, but is an indispensible instrument of knowledge in
all sectors of musical activity. The programme will take the
following form:

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The two plenary sessions will take the form of round-tables
with invited speakers. The eight parallel sessions are
open to contributions that are received at the office of the
conference in the form explained below. The authors of
contributions wich are accepted will be guests of the
conference.

In order to assure adequate time for open debate, the papers
should be limited to a maximum of 20 minutes
(corresponding to 8 typewritten pages of 1800 characters).
Because of time limitations, it is advisable to use overhead
projections or slides.

In addition to the sessions indicated above, the organisers
intend to provide a room equipped for the display of posters
and any accompanying materials (videos, computer software
etc.). From noon to 3 p.m. Friday and Saturday, the authors of
the posters will be able to illustrate their work.

The official languages of the conference are: Italian,
French, English and German.

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The conference office is located at the Accademia
Filarmonica Trentina, via Oriola 12, 38100 Trento (Italia),
tel. (0)461 - 238008, fax 0(461) - 238166.

CALL FOR PAPERS AND POSTERS

Those who wish to present a paper or poster at the conference
should send an abstract by 31 March 1991.

- PAPERS

The abstract for a paper should adhere to the following points:

1. It should contain the full name, professional qualification,
address and brief curriculum vitae of the author(s).

2. It should be sent in triplicate to the conference office.

3. It should give a clear description of the subject, the method
and the objectives of the research.

4. It should be not less than 3 nor more than 6 typewritten
pages long.

5. It should indicate the name of the session to which the
author intends to contribute.

6.It should indicate what technical apparatus the author
requires (musical instruments, audiovisual equipment, etc.)
for the presentation.

Those intending to offer a paper for the electro-acoustic
music session can obtain a cassette recording of the piece by
applying to the conference office.

- POSTERS

The abstract for a poster should adhere to points 1-3 above.
Please note that:

- Posters should measure 70x100 cm. maximum, should be
self- explanatory and should be readable in two to three minutes.
- For the present conference a poster can be supplemented with
a computer program or a video-cassette.
- The topics of the posters are free, i.e. not restricted to
the themes of the conference sessions.

Those wishing to supplement their posters with a computer
program, should provide in their abstract, in addition to
a summary description of the structure and the aims of the
programme, complete information relating to the hardware and
other necessary equipment.
Those wishing to present a video-cassette should summarize, in
their abstract, its contents and indicate the reasons for its
use.

- SCHEDULE

Authors of papers and posters whose abstracts have been
accepted will receive a written response from the conference
office by 31 May 1991. Their final written work must arrive at
the office by 1 September 1991. Papers should not exceed 8
typewritten pages of 30 lines, 60 characters per line.


For further informations please contact the conference office at
the following address:
Accademia Filarmonica Trentina, Via Oriola 12, 38100 Trento
(Italia), tel. (0)461 - 238008, fax 0(461) - 238166.

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Date: Fri, 4 Jan 91 05:43:38 EST
From: Bernard Jackson <LA06@LIVERPOOL.AC.UK>
Subject: Conference: Semiotics of Law

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR THE SEMIOTICS OF LAW
ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONALE DE SEMIOTIQUE JURIDIQUE


7TH INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM

August 14th-17th 1991

Utrecht, The Netherlands

The colloquium will be held at the Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht at Utrecht,
Holland, commencing at 14.00 on the 14th and concluding at 13.00 on the
17th August.

Utrecht, with its architectural and artistic heritage, is close to
Amsterdam. Participants arriving at Schiphol airport can take a train
(approx. 30 minutes) directly to Utrecht.

Participants who wish to travel on to the IVR Conference in Gottingen
will have sufficient time get there either by train or aeroplane.


Didactic Seminar

The first 24 hours of the Colloquium will be devoted to a didactic
seminar, at which invited speakers will offer analyses, each from the
viewpoint of one of the main approaches within contemporary semiotics, of
pre-circulated extracts from the European Convention on Human Rights.

The theme of the rest of the conference will be:

THE SEMIOTIC WEB OF LAW

CALL FOR PAPERS

Law and facts are not "given", but constructed in discourse. This
assumption seems to widely held among present-day legal theorists, and,
more broadly speaking, among legal semioticians. The creation of meaning
in legal discourse is a process of interaction between a variety of
signs.

Many of these signs are of a linguistic nature, but visual and other
signs of various sorts play their part as well. This is obvious for
Anglo-Saxon legal practice, with its emphasis on orality and directness.
A trial before a jury is not just an exchange of linguist utterances; it
is a total event.

In the civil-law tradition, with its mostly written procedures and the
absence of a jury, the role of linguistic signs in the creation of
meaning seems to be more prominent. However it would be misleading to
suggest that non-linguistic signs do not come into play here.
Continental European judges may not wear wigs, but they do wear robes.

These different sorts of sign (cultural, historical, linguistic, etc.)
that create meaning in legal discourse form what has been called a
semiotic web. Legal semiotics then becomes the discipline of analyzing
the semiotic web and determining how it produces what we call "law" and
"facts".

For the August 1991 IASL colloquium at Utrecht, papers which fit within
the above theme will be welcome. Please send an abstract to Prof. Dr.
Paul J. van den Hoven, Vakgroep Nederlands, Rijksuniversiteit Utrecht ,
3512 JK Utrecht, The Netherlands, Tel: 31-30-394093 or 394000; FAX
31-30-333380, to arrive no later than 1st April 1991. Full texts will
be required by 1st June 1991, for production in a pre-conference booklet.


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