Glossopoesis and Glottotechnia: The Art and Science of Language

The Third Language Creation Conference

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The Third Language Creation Conference is fast approaching, and we wanted to give you more information about just what's going on.

The conference is being held on the Brown University campus in Providence, Rhode Island, March 21-22, 2009.

On Friday, March 20th, we will have a more informal meet and greet - plan to arrive early and take a walking tour of the local Lovecraft-related sites.

Hotel info is on the local info page.

LCC3 will feature conference-style presentations, shorter presentations on specific conlangs, panel discussions, workshops, and more, including:

The WORLD PREMIERE showing of a new short film, "Conlang", by Swan Dive Films
A presentation on Kelen's Ceremonial Interlace Alphabet by Sylvia Sotomayor
A presentation on the practical design of non-linear writing systems by Schuyler Duveen
An introduction to orthography and font creation by David Peterson
An introduction to a tactile language by Sai Emrys and Alex Fink
An introduction to Varkuzan: the language Paul Varkuza named himself after
Donald Boozer's Conlangs exhibit, as it appeared at the Chicago Public Library

The creators of the film (Swan Dive Films, from Columbia University), and the creator of the Uscaniv language featured prominently in the film, will be on hand to answer questions and explain what led to its creation. If you'd like to see a five minute teaser they made before major filming began, you can take a look at it on YouTube here

LCC3 Conlang relay

For the second year in a row, we'll be running a relay for LCC3 participants, the results of which will be unveiled live at the conference! If you'd like to participate, you can e-mail the Valydas Relay List or David Peterson with the following information:

Your name
The language you want to use
The e-mail address you want to use for the relay
Whether you're attending LCC3
Your availability between now and March 18th

Awards

Finally, some may have heard of the Smiley Award, handed out annually to one created language.

For the first time in the award's history, the Smiley Award will be presented live to one of the attendees at LCC3. Who will it be? It could be anyone—even YOU (provided you're in attendance)!

Posters

If you are presently planning on attending, or even if you can't attend and have something to share, we wanted to let you know about the poster session going on this year. Conlangers from all over the globe are submitting conlang-related artwork, or sample texts in their orthographies, or other related visual art to display at LCC3. We've got a lot of submissions so far—including Steven Travis's Tapissary exhibit—but we're looking for more (we want to cover the walls). If you're interested, contact us, or send us .pdf files and/or snail mail physical documents to us, and we'll display them during LCC3. Got ideas, but aren't sure how o realize them on paper? Let us know!

LCC3 is on the horizon! Be sure not to miss out!