The 5th Prague Interpretation Colloquium
THE LEVELS OF INTERPRETATION
Prague, April 25-27, 2005
1st circular
Dear friends,
Let me repeat how happy we are to have you among the speakers of our colloquium. Here is the first part
of the information for participants: its striking incompletness reflects the informal character of the project,
of which you were explicitly warned in the invitation letter.
I. Speakers and papers
Most of the names in our list of speakers are followed by gaps provoking imagination, which is a sound
marketing strategy. But the time has come to fill them with the titles of papers. If you have not done it yet,
please, let us know the title until the end of February. If the title does not clearly indicate the topic, we
would be grateful if you add a few words of explanation.
Here is the list:
Stephen Barker (Nottingham): The Enigma of Negative Existentials
Paul Boghossian (New York)
Roberto Casati (Paris)
Eros Corazza (Nottingham)
Jerome Dokic (Paris)
Kathrin Gluer-Pagin (Uppsala)
Anthony Grayling (London)
Paul Horwich (New York)
Juraj Hvorecky (Prague): Reading off Moods
Petr Kotatko (Prague): Manifestations and Implicatures
Paolo Leonardi (Bologna)
Jerrold Levinson (Maryland)
Tomas Marvan (Prague)
Bob Myers (Toronto): Holism and the Interpretation of Desire
Stephen Neale (Rutgers): Intention and Interpretation
Peter Pagin (Stockholm)
Anders Pettersson (Umea): Implied Assertions in Literature and Readers' Analogical Thinking
Torsten Pettersson (Uppsala): Verbal Meaning and Implications: The Basis of Interpreting Language
Stefano Predelli (Nottingham)
Bjorn Ramberg (Oslo)
Goran Rossholm (Stockholm)
Barry Smith (London)
Gianfranco Soldati (Tubingen)
Fredrik Stjernberg (Lund): Do We Understand Fiction?
Claudine Verheggen (New York): Interpretation and Triangulation
Asa Wikforss (Stockholm)
Marian Zouhar (Bratislava)
II. Time schedule
The programme will be set up after we receive the titles of papers.
The general schedule for each day will look as follows:
9 a.m. - 1 p.m. morning session (4 papers)
2 p.m. - 6 p.m. afternoon session (4 papers)
Let me remind you that the presentation of a paper should not exceed 40 minutes (less is preferable).
The Baronne Bacourt Reception will take place at the usual time (on Tuesday at 6.30 p.m.), in the usual
location (the reception hall of Villa Bacourt), the dress code will be as usual (no tollerance for
extravagancies).
III. Accommodation
If you let us know the precise dates of your stay until the end of February, we will be pleased to book
accommodation for you in the Academy House Villa Lanna - a quiet place with a good connection to the
city centre (please, find the details, including the map, on our web pages given bellow). The price is 1160
Czech Crowns, i.e. app. 40 Euro/50 USD per room per night (breakfast included). If you come within the
Inter-Academy exchange scheme, your accommodation will be arranged by the Praesidium of the Czech
Academy of Sciences, in cooperation with your Academy (or another institution which delegates you).
Please, ask your Academy about the arrangements before you leave for Prague and check the dates of
reservation (mistakes produced by the bureacratical machinery have caused embarassing situations in the
past).
IV. Information resources
The second and last circular should reach you in the first week of April.
The updated information will appear on
www.flu.cas.cz/saf/interpretation.html
These www-pages are interactive: we will be happy to place there any materials you send us (the abstract
of your paper, your message for the colloquium participants, your recent photo etc.).
Looking forward to seeing you in April,
with best regards
Petr.