CALL FOR PROPOSALS Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse Thursday and Friday, July 10 and 11, 1997 Utrecht University Utrecht, The Netherlands We are pleased to announce the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, to be held for the first time in Europe, in Utrecht (The Netherlands). The meeting will be hosted by the Centre for Language and Communication (CLC) and the the Department of Psychonomics, both at Utrecht University, and is co-organized by the University of Amsterdam and Tilburg University. THE SOCIETY FOR TEXT AND DISCOURSE is an international society of researchers who investigate all aspects of discourse processing and text analysis. The purpose of the Society is to consolidate research in discourse processing and to enhance communication among researchers in different disciplines. Therefore, we invite scholars from various disciplines (e.g., psychology, linguistics, artificial intelligence, education, sociology, anthropology, mass-communication, and philosophy) to attend and to submit a proposal for participation in the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society. This year special interest will be paid to proposals that concern the translation of empirical research findings into areas of application, such as text and document design, learning from texts and problem-solving, mass-communication and new media. But other PROPOSALS ON ANY TOPIC WITHIN THE REALM OF THE TEXT AND DISCOURSE COMMUNITY ARE HIGHLY WELCOME. PROGRAM The Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will begin with a welcome reception, on Wednesday evening, July 9. Spoken papers and invited addresses will begin the morning of Thursday, July 10, and end in the afternoon of Friday, July 11. A poster session will be held Thursday evening, July 10. The last event of the conference will be a SURPRISE SOCIAL EVENT, which we are planning in collaboration with ABLEX publishers, and which will be held Friday evening, July 11. The program committee consists of: Paul van den Broek (Minnesota), Teun van Dijk (Amsterdam), Morton-Ann Gernsbacher (Wisconsin), Herre van Oostendorp (Utrecht, Psychonomics, chair), Ted Sanders (Utrecht, CLC, co-chair). LOCATION Utrecht is located in the centre of the Netherlands. It is only 20 miles from Schiphol Amsterdam Airport, and it is easily accessible by a comfortable train connection (30 minutes). All events of the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse will take place in the buildings of the Faculty of Arts of Utrecht University, one of the oldest -- and the largest -- Dutch universities, located in the beautiful historical centre of Utrecht. INVITED SPEAKERS Invited speakers, from both the US and Europe, include the following persons: Paul van den Broek (Minneapolis), Teun A. van Dijk (Amsterdam), Michel Fayol (Dijon; yet to be confirmed) Charles R. Fletcher (Minneapolis), Arthur C. Graesser (Memphis), Susan R. Goldman (Nashville), Morton Ann Gernsbacher (Wisconsin), Anthony J. Sanford (Glasgow), Patricia Wright (Cambridge). (This list is not complete yet.) CONFERENCE FEE Conference fees are $ 25 or Hfl 45 for members and $ 40 or Hfl 70 for non-members. On-site registration is possible, but then fees are $ 35 / Hfl 65 for members and $ 50 or Hfl 90 for non- members. INVITATION We hope that many researchers in the field of text and discourse will join us by submitting a proposal for participation in this Seventh Annual Meeting, and by attending what we believe will be an excellent meeting. SUBMISSION Presentations at the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse can be in the form of POSTERS and SPOKEN PAPERS. The deadline for submitting proposals for both presentation formats is MARCH, 7, 1997. Note that this is a 'receipt deadline' (proposals must be received on or before that date). Authors will be notified whether their proposed presentations are accepted before April 18, 1997. Please note that all presentations must be based on research that is completed at the time that the proposal is submitted. If you want to submit to the Seventh Annual Meeting of the Society for Text and Discourse, you can contact the conference manager, Mascha Damen, by email, for a registration form: MASCHA.DAMEN@LET.RUU.NL If this is problematic, please contact the conference manager, Mascha Damen Centre for Language and Communication Utrecht University Trans 10 3512 JK Utrecht The Netherlands Telephone: (+31) 30 253 9163 Fax: (+31) 30 253 6000 We hope to meet you in Utrecht in July 1997! THE ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE Mascha Damen (CLC) Morton-Ann Gernsbacher (President of the Society for Text and Discourse) Herre van Oostendorp (Psychonomics, co-chair) Mirna Pit (CLC) Ted Sanders (CLC, chair) Rachel Robertson (Wisconsin) Wilbert Spooren (CLS-Tilburg). For further information about the Society for Text and Discourse contact IN EUROPE Dr. Herre van Oostendorp, European Representative of the Society for Text and Discourse, Dept. of Psychonomics, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 2, 3584 CS Utrecht, The Netherlands fax +31 30 2534511 e-mail H.vanOostendorp@fsw.ruu.nl IN THE USA Morton Ann Gernsbacher, Ph.D., President of the Society for Text and Discourse, University of Wisconsin-Madison 1202 W. Johnson Street, Madison, WI 53706-1611, (608) 262-6989 [fax (608) 262-4029], email MAGernsb@Facstaff.Wisc.Edu.