<OT> Old-World Conferences in Phonology

[Marc van Oostendorp]

Old-World Conferences in Phonology

During the phonology conference which took place in Leiden, 9-11 January,
2003, and which was already optimistically called 'the *first* Old-World
Conference in Phonology' (OCP1) by its organizers, the participants decided
that the organisation of this event should turn into a biannual tradition.

>From now on, there hopefully will be an OCP somewhere in Europe every second
year (untill all problems in phonological theory have been solved to the
satisfaction of everybody involved). OCP will provide a platform to
phonologists of all theoretical convictions and other researchers interested
in phonological theory.  The OCP's will alternate with the North American
Phonology Conference (NAPhC), of which the previous one took place in 2003
and the next one, hopefully, in 2005.

It has been decided that the second OCP (OCP2) will take place in Tromsų,
probably in January 2004. Other prospective venues for OCP Meetings are
Rhodes/Crete, Berlin/Potsdam, London, Lille and Utrecht/Leiden/Amsterdam. An
informal 'steering group' has been set up, which will consist of the
organizers of the previous OCP, together with those of the next one. At
present this means that the following phonologists are in this informal
committee at present: Patrick Bye & Curt Rice (Tromsų), Jeroen van de Weijer
(Leiden), Marc van Oostendorp (Meertens Institute, Amsterdam). They will set
up a small website in the future, which will act as a reference for
information on the OCP, and they will organize a mailing list for
information on the conference.