You are invited to suggest any speakers who you think would be willing to offer a paper, bearing in mind, however, that ACIS does not normally offer either a fee or expenses for speakers.Papers will be allocated a maximum of 35 minutes on the programme, in order to leave time for discussion and debate. If you wish to offer a paper, please refer to the Guidelines for Papers. Please send, preferably by e-mail, a provisional title and short description of content (approx 100 words) by 30 April 2005 to:Carmen DomínguezLanguages (School of Media, Language and Music)University of PaisleyPaisley PA1 2BE, SCOTLAND (UK)Tel. no. +44 (0)141 848 3869Fax: +44 (0)141 848 3533e-mail: carmen.dominguez@paisley.ac.ukThe Constitution briefly describes the general aims of the Association as the promotion of ¿the study of the social, economic and political affairs of the Iberian area together with its languages¿. Following on from this broad description we could further define our areas of activity in terms of geographical limits and historical period:1. Geographical limits: Spain and Portugal and their dependent territories. International relations involving either country are included.2. Historical period: approximately the past 100 years, from the late nineteenth century to the present. This is not meant to exclude reference to an earlier time where appropriate.3. Language: the Spanish and Portuguese languages, especially contemporary usage; the minority languages of the Iberian Peninsula, especially in their social and political context.
