The next EVOLANG conference will be held in Barcelona (Spain) in the spring of 2008. Evolang7 website here.

The Sixth International Conference on the Evolution of Language (Evolang6) was held in Rome on 12-15 April 2006. The conference will take place at the Centro Congressi (Conference Centre) of the University of Rome “La Sapienza”, via Salaria 113 (Map).

The conference will include substantive contributions relating to the evolution of human language from any relevant discipline, including Anthropology, Genetics, Population Biology, Linguistics, Neuroscience, Psychology, Primatology, Ethology, Paleontology, Archeology, Artificial Life, Mathematical Modelling. All accepted papers and abstracts have been published in a proceedings volume edited by A. Cangelosi, A. Smith and K. Smith (World Scientific Publishing). After the conference, some papers will be selected for an extended submission to the journals Mind & Society (guest edited by A. Cangelosi) and Interaction Studies (one yearly issue of Interaction Studies is dedicated to Evolution of Communication, and is edited by Jim Hurford).

The conference program with links to papers/abstracts is available in the Program webpage.

The Evolang6 proceedings can be ordered in the publisher’s website.

Plenary Speakers

Tecumseh Fitch Department of Psychology, University of St. Andrews (UK)

Vittorio Gallese Department of Human Physiology, University of Parma (Italy)

Steven Mithen Department of Anthropology, University of Reading (UK)

Domenico Parisi Institute of Cognitive Science and Technology, CNR Rome (Italy)

Alberto Piazza (& Luigi Cavalli Sforza) University of Turin (Italy) and University of Stanford (US)

Robert Seyfarth & Dorothy Cheney Departments of Psychology and Biology, University of Pennsylvania (USA)

Luc Steels Vrije Universiteit Brussel (Belgium) and SONY Computer Science Lab (France)

Leonard Talmy Department of Linguistics, University of Buffalo (US)

Michael Tomasello Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig (Germany)

Important Dates

October 1, 2005 Paper submission (expired)

December 1, 2005 Notification of acceptance/rejection

January 3, 2006 Camera-ready submission

January 31, 2006 Early registration deadline

April 12-15, 2006 Conference

Conference Organizing Committee

Angelo Cangelosi (University of Plymouth)

Bernard Comrie (Max Planck Institute, Leipzig)

Jean-Louis Dessalles (Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications, Paris)

Tecumseh Fitch (University of St Andrews)

James R Hurford (University of Edinburgh)

Chris Knight (University of East London)

Domenico Parisi (ISTC-CNR, National Research Council Rome)

Maggie Tallerman (University of Newcastle upon Tyne)

Alison Wray (Cardiff University)

Local Organizing Committee

Davide Marocco (ISTC-CNR Rome) – local organizing committee chair

Andrew Smith (University of Edinburgh)

Kenny Smith (University of Edinburgh)

Alberto Acerbi (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Siena)

Massimiliano Caretti (ISTC-CNR Rome)

Allegra Cattani (University of Plymouth)

Eduardo Coutinho (University of Plymouth)

Andrea Di Ferdinando (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Padova)

Onofrio Gigliotta (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Palermo)

Isabella La Rovere (University of Genoa)

Gianluca Massera (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Plymouth)

Mariagiovanna Mazzapioda (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Plymouth)

Orazio Miglino (University of Naples “Federico II” and ISTC-CNR Rome)

Marco Mirolli (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Siena)

Stefano Nolfi (ISTC-CNR Rome)

Angelo Rega (ISTC-CNR Rome and University of Naples “Federico II”)

Vadim Tikhanoff (University of Plymouth)