Call for Abstracts

DEADLINES

EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING: 15 February 2023  March 1st

Notifications of acceptance/rejection: 31 March 2023

Early bird registration deadline: 30 June 2023

Regular registration deadline: 1 September 2023

Conference: 27-28 September 2023

We call for:

·         oral presentations

·         posters

·         symposia

The list of conference areas includes (but is not limited to):

* animal cognition

* animal communication

* anthropology (linguistic, social, cultural, evolutionary)

* cognitive science

* cognitive semiotics

* computational modelling

* general evolutionary theory

* genetics of language

* gesture studies

* linguistics

* neuroscience of language

* paleoanthropology

* philosophy of biology

* philosophy of language

* philosophy of science

* Pleistocene archaeology

* primatology

* psychology (evolutionary, comparative, developmental)

* speech physiology

SUBMISSION

Oral presentations and posters:

Please submit an abstract of 400 words (+ references) prepared for anonymous review to the EasyChair website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=protolang8. 

The best poster will be awarded with a prize offered by Springer Nature. For more info, please visit: https://sites.google.com/view/protolang8/awards

Symposia:

Please submit a proposal including: (a) Title of the symposium, (b) name and affiliation of the organizers, (c) a general description of the symposium (400 words + references), (d) abstract of each contributed talk (100-150 words for each listed abstract + references)

Submissions should be suitable for a two-hour session and include 3 to 5 presentations.

The organizers are responsible for submitting the full symposium program to the EasyChair website:  https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=protolang8. The organizers will also act as chairs of their session.