Ten years after our colleague Christian Benoît departed, the mark that 
he left is still very vivid in the international community. There will 
soon be several occasions to honour his memory: during the next 
Interspeech conference (Christian was secretary of the ESCA, future 
ISCA, for a long time, the association is a French association of the 
type described in the 1901 law and its official headquarters are still 
in Grenoble), as well as during the next AVSP workshop (workshop of 
which he was one of the creators). The Christian Benoît Association was 
created in 1999 and regularly awards young researchers the "Christian 
Benoît prize" to promote their research (the 4^th prize was awarded to 
the phonetician Susanne Fuchs in 2007). 

The Christian Benoît association 
http://www.icp.inpg.fr/ICP/_communication.fr.html#prixcb), along with 
ICP, now Speech and Cognition Department of Gipsa-lab 
(http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr <http://www.gipsa-lab.inpg.fr/>), are 
organizing a workshop/summer school to Christian Benoît’s memory, in the 
line of his innovative and enthusiastic research style and aiming at 
exploring the topic of "Speech and Face to Face Communication" in a 
pluridisciplinary perspective: neuroscience, cognitive psychology, 
phonetics, linguistics and computer modelling. The workshop "Speech and 
Face to Face Communication" will be organized around 11 invited 
conferences. All researchers from the field are invited to participate 
through a call for papers and students will be encouraged to widely 
attend the workshop and present their work.

Website: http://www.icp.inpg.fr/~dohen/face2face/

Deadline for sending one page abstracts: May 15th (see Call for Papers 
<http://ww.icp.inpg.fr/%7Edohen/face2face/CallForPapers.html>)

You can subscribe to the Christian Benoît Association by sending 15 
euros (active member; 45 euros or more, benefactors) to Pascal Perrier, 
secretary of the association: Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr 
<mailto:Pascal.Perrier@gipsa-lab.inpg.fr>.