Gestures: Meaning and Use. Porto.

The first open international conference on Gesture, was held last April (1st to 4th, 2000) at the University of Fernando Pessoa, in Porto, Portugal, and was also supported by the University of North Carolina and the Technical University of Berlin. The publication of the proceedings of the conference, by the University of Fernando Pessoa, will soon become available. For further information please contact Monica Rector, at the University of North Carolina.

During the conference, Adam Kendon (University of Pennsylvania) and Cornelia Muller (Free University of Berlin) announced the forthcoming new journal 'Gesture', to be published by the Cambridge University Press. This is a major development.

There is also a plan to form a Gesture Society, and this might take place next year when Jurgen Streeck (Austin, Texas) organises the next major international conference on gesture. This will be held at the University of Austin, Texas. Announcements for this will be given later in the year.


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