Sorry for the late update on this, it is passed the submission deadline, but this may still be of interest to people in the area.
Event Dates: 16-18 September 2011
Event Location: Shanghai, China
Event URL: http://comonca.org.cn/ee/ee-en.htm

Along with the developments in the fields of anthropology in East Asia, many data and much knowledge have been accumulated recently in molecular anthropology and linguistic anthropology, shedding lights on the origin and diversification of the human populations in the Far East. Communications among the subfields are eagerly required to share the knowledge and draw more detailed conclusions on the human population histories. Since the first International Meeting of Linguistic Evolution and Genetic Evolution was hold in 2005 successfully, the second meeting will be necessary to discuss the new data and new results. Therefore, we sincerely invite you to the meeting to be hold in this September in Shanghai.

Language: Chinese, English

Program:
   1) Phylogeny of Sino-Tibetan;
   2) Phylogeny of Daic and Austronesian;
   3) Linguistics and genetics of the North Asians and Southeast Asians;
   4) Computation and Statistics Methods.

Fields including: Evolutionary Linguistics, Molecular Anthropology, Archaeological Anthropology, Forensic Anthropology, Genetic Structure of World Populations.

Several famous linguists and geneticists will be invited for plenary lectures.

Call deadline: 15 June 2011
Event Dates: 19-21 September 2011
Event Location: Torun, Poland
Event URL: http://www.protolang.umk.pl/

In response to a number of requests submission deadline has been extended to 15th June 2011.

Protolang is a biennial conference organised by the Department of English, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Torun. One of the primary goals of this conference is bringing together researchers representing a variety of areas in order to gain a multidisciplinary perspective on the range of currently available evidence relevant to early language evolution. The focus of the conference is on the early stages of the emergence of symbolic, language-like communication in hominids. The conference will reflect the inherently interdisciplinary nature of research into the evolution of language. We invite papers from a wide range of subjects related to language evolution.

Keynote Speakers:

John Gowlett (University of Liverpool; Lucy to Language British Academy Project) - "Language Beginnings – a view from the early archaeological record"

Juliane Kaminski (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) - "Do dogs get the point"

Adam Kendon (Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania)- "An evolutionary approach to explaining why patterned visible bodily action commonly occurs when people speak"

Katie Slocombe (Department of Psychology, University of York)
"Vocal communication in chimpanzees"