The conference aims to discuss empirical and theoretical questions concerning concrete possibilities for a closer collaboration between speech scientists, conversation analysts, speech technologists and oral historians. Potential questions include:

• What are the challenges involved in the re-use of speech and oral archives collected for other purposes?
• What kind of opportunities do oral archives provide for speech technology? What do linguistic uses
  of historical narratives look like?
• What are the opportunities and challenges of using oral history archives in linguistic research? What are the opportunities and challenges of phonetic tools for oral history and social sciences? In what ways could oral historians profit from a closer collaboration?
• What are the challenges involved in the long-term preservation and in the metadata description of digital archives? What are the challenges and the risks associated to legal and ethical issues? What are the opportunities at EU level for the preservation and maintenance of oral and speech archives?

Following the tradition of AISV conferences, the programme will also include open sessions on any aspect of speech science research.

The languages of the conference are Italian and English. Power Point presentations and posters should be written in English.

How to submit your abstract

Authors are invited to submit an abstract by 25 September. Abstracts should be written in English or Italian, and should be restricted to 1000-1500 words and two pages in A4 format, including graphs and references. Abstracts should be submitted in *.pdf format through the procedure that will be set up in the Congress website (starting from the 1st of July).

Oral Presentations

Oral presentations will last 20 minutes, including a short Q&A session. Presenters should load their presentation to the conference laptops at least 20 minutes before the session starts. PowerPoint or Adobe PDF are the accepted presentation formats; multi-media sound or video files to be presented with slides must be provided at speaker check-in.

Poster Presentations

Printed posters should be maximum A0 in size (841mm wide by 1189mm high) and portrait in orientation. Presenters are advised to mount their posters at least 20 minutes before the start of the session and remove them after the end of the session. Conference organizers will not be responsible for posters left after the session. Material to affix posters to the poster boards will be available on site.