This collection of conference papers and abstracts includes: "Integrating Two Languages, Theories of Minds, and Executive Functions" (Agnes Melinda Kovacs and Erno Teglas); "Unconventional Thinking for Speaking: The Blends of George W. Bush" (Alan Cienki); "Blends of Alternations in the Grammar of Brazilian Vernacular Portuguese" (Alice Lana); "Blending as a Resource for the Study of Conversations in Complex Settings" (Annalisa Sannino); "Blending and Perspective: Jonathan Raban's Travels through Mental Spaces" (Barbara Dancygier); "How Do We Interpret Proverbs? A Conceptual Blending Approach" (Christine Michaux); "Conceptual Integration Networks and Philosophical Theories of Meaning: An Exploratory Discussion" (Cynthia M. Grund); "The Way Logicians Think?" (Erling Wande);"Conceptual Blending and Viewpoint" (Eve Sweetser); "Piercing Dolls and Burning Hair: Conceptual Blending in Magical Rituals" (Jesper Sorensen); "Generalized Conceptual Spaces, their Morphisms, and their Blends, With Applications to User Interface Design" (Joseph Goguen); "Metaphors as Inputs to Conceptual Integration" (Joseph Grady); "The Acquisition of the Ditransitive Construction" (Kai Kiekhoefer); "Conceptual Blending and Music" (Lawrence Zbikowski); "The Way We Begin to Think: Generation of Abstract Concepts in Chinese Characters" (Masako K. Hiraga); "Outline of a Typology of Compound Noun Blendings" (Peer Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt, and Svend Oestergaard); "The Role of Schemata in Compound Noun Blending" (Peer Bundgaard, Frederik Stjernfelt, and Svend Oestergaard); "Creating Mathematical Infinities: The Beauty of Transfinite Cardinals" (Rafael Nunez); "On the Construction of the Concept `Language': Entrenched Conceptual Integration Networks Encountered in Evolutionary Biology and Language Evolution" (Roslyn M. Frank); "Blending of a Single Event: Integration of Viewpoints" (Soichi Kozai); "Can Conceptual Integration Explain Why a Road Can Creep, Go, or Race" (Teenie Matlock); "It's Not Just the Way We Think! Mimesis, Artistic Inspiration and the Blends We Live By" (Tom Rohrer); "Why Does Time Flow and Where Does it Flow To? The Temporal Matrix and Conceptual Integration" (Vyvyan Evans); "Modeling the Semantics of Geographic Categories through Blendings" (Werner Kuhn); "Collaborative Blending: The Multi-Voiced Creation of Concepts in Professional Work Groups" (Yrjo Engestrom); and "Cognition Under Pressure: Integration, Disintegration, Polarization and Meltdown: A Contribution to Social Science" (Peter Harder). (Papers contain references.) (SM)