Dear friends and colleagues,

We are very happy to announce that the 9th version of the Embodied and Situated Language Processing (ESLP2016) conference will be held in Villarrica/Pucón in southern Chile between the 6th and the 9th of October, 2016.

The ESLP aims to bring together researchers working on the interaction of language and visual/motor processing in embodied, situated, and language-for-action research traditions.

We invite submissions both for oral and poster presentations. For this version of ESLP, we encourage and particularly welcome submissions related to learning and education. Further details will be provided promptly in the conference website (http://eslp2016.sciencesconf.org/)

Keynote speakers
Arthur Glenberg (Arizona State University and University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Rafael Nuñez (University of California San Diego)
Marcela Peña (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Arielle Borovsky (Florida State University)
Kate Nation (University of Oxford)

Important dates
– Abstract submission opens: 1st of April, 2016
– Abstract submission closes: 30th of April, 2016
– Notification of decision: 30th of June, 2016
– Conference: 6th and the 9th of October, 2016.

We hope to see you in Chile in October,
Local Program Committee
Ernesto Guerra (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)
Macarena Silva (Universidad de Chile)
Edmundo Kronmüller (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile)