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.