4th Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS)
July 25 – 30, 2010 – European University Viadrina Frankfurt/Oder

The International Society for Gesture Studies (ISGS) announces its fourth conference,
Gesture – Evolution, Brain, and Linguistic Structures, to be held July 25-30, 2010, in Frankfurt/Oder (near Berlin).


Scientific Commitee

Alan Cienki (VU University Amsterdam & Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study)
Jean-Marc Colletta (Université Stendhal, Grenoble)
Pierre Feyereisen (Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve)
Susan Goldin-Meadow (University of Chicago)
Marianne Gullberg (Radboud University and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Christian Heath (King's College London)
Henning Holle (University of Sussex, Falmer)
Judith Holler (University of Manchester)
Terry Janzen (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg)
Hermann Kappelhoff (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Adam Kendon (Philadelphia, Naples)
Sotaro Kita (University of Birmingham)
Stefan Kopp (Bielefeld University)
David Leavens (University of Sussex, Falmer)
Dario Mastripieri (University of Chicago)
Karl-Erik McCullough (University of Chicago)
David McNeill (University of Chicago)
Lorenza Mondada (University of Lyon)
Asli Oezyurek (Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen)
Fey Parrill (Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland)
Llúís Payrató (Universitat de Barcelona)
Simone Pika (University of Manchester)
Mandana Seyfeddinipur (Stanford University)
Gale Stam (National-Louis University, Chicago)
Eve Sweetser (University of California, Berkeley)
Virginia Volterra (Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, Rome)
Sherman Wilcox (University of New Mexico, Albuquerque)
Christoph Wulf (Freie Universitaet Berlin)

Program Chairs

Cornelia Mueller (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)
Ellen Fricke (European University Viadrina, Frankfurt/Oder)
Hedda Lausberg (German Sport University, Cologne)
Katja Liebal (Freie Universitaet Berlin)
Irene Mittelberg (HumTec, RWTH Aachen University)

Local Organizing Committee

Jana Bressem
Silva Ladewig
Susanne Tag
Sedinha Tessendorf
Ulrike Wrobel