CUSP 6:
The 6th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Conference
CUSP 6:
The 6th California Universities Semantics and Pragmatics Conference
CUSP 6 will be held on Friday, October 11 and Saturday, October 12, 2013 at the University of California, Berkeley. It is co-hosted by the Department of Linguistics and the Department of Philosophy.
Abstract Submission
Please submit a non-anonymous 1-page abstract as a pdf to cusp6@berkeley.edu by Sept. 17.
Participation
Participation in CUSP is free and open to interested faculty, graduate, and undergraduate students. For organizational purposes, please email us if you are coming (even if you are not presenting), no later than September 20, 2013.
Program
To be announced in late September.
Conference Location
370 Dwinelle Hall
UC Berkeley
Berkeley, CA 94720
Dwinelle Hall is large and notoriously difficult to navigate. Please see this internal map to locate Room 370 within the building.
Accommodation
Graduate student presenters and attendees interested in finding accommodation with UC Berkeley graduate students can contact us at cusp6@berkeley.edu.
For faculty, we recommend the nearby Hotel Durant, the Berkeley Faculty Club, and the Women’s Faculty Club. Faculty members interested in staying at the Women’s Faculty Club should contact Line Mikkelsen (mikkelsen@berkeley.edu) to make reservations. Please note that the Hotel Durant requires a two-night minimum stay.
Contact us
Email us at cusp6@berkeley.edu
Parking
Parking in the Berkeley area can be difficult. We recommend:
Underhill Parking Lot
Berkeley, CA
The UC Berkeley campus is also easily accessible by BART (Bay Area Rapid Transport). Use the Downtown Berkeley station.
Previous Meetings
The CUSP project was founded in 2008 with the aim of creating a semi-structured venue for interaction between the many researchers in the California semantics/pragmatics community.
CUSP 1 was held at UCLA on May 23-24, 2009.
CUSP 2 was held at UC Santa Cruz on November 21, 2009.
CUSP 3 was held at Stanford University on October 15-16, 2010.
CUSP 4 was held at the University of Southern California on February 3-4, 2012.
CUSP 5 was held at UCSD on October 27-28, 2012.