INSTILS – the International Network for Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability – invites you to its inaugural conference on Discoveries and Insights in Skills Training in Intergenerational Language Sustainability (DISTILS-01). A key element of intergenerational language sustainability is building capacity within communities to define and meet their own language goals. To support these aspirations, numerous programs and initiatives (including CoLang, ELDP, AILDI, NILI, CILL

The Twenty-Fifth Meeting of the Texas Linguistics Society will take place February 21st to 22nd, 2026. The conference will be hosted in person at the University of Texas at Austin Glickman Conference Center. The organizers invite papers from all sub-fields of linguistics. The keynote theme of this year’s conference is Language and Development. The keynote speakers: TBA Call for Papers: Presentations will be 20 minutes in length, with an additional 10 minutes for questions/discussion.

Organizers: Linda Konnerth (University of Bern), Sandra Auderset (University of Bern), Sergey Say (University of Potsdam) Please send your abstract of max. 300 words by Monday, November 17th, to any of us: linda.konnerth@unibe.ch; sandra.auderset@unibe.ch; serjozhka@yahoo.com Linguistic typology as a discipline has focused heavily on universally applicable contrasts from which generalizations about language(s) and language change can be derived. Based on this line of inquiry, a subfield ha

The Department of Asian and North African Studies at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice is pleased to announce the fourth meeting of the Conference on the Endangered Languages of East Asia (CELEA). The aim of CELEA is to gather at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice scholars, researchers, and other academics who work on endangered, indigenous, or minority languages spoken in the territories of East Asia. With this conference, the University wants to broaden its perspective on the linguistic diversity

We are delighted to share with you the Second Circular for the 23rd International Conference on English Historical Linguistics (ICEHL-23), which will take place at the University of Milan from 15 to 18 June 2026. Call for Panels: We are now inviting proposals for: - Panels (thematic sessions with several papers) Abstracts should not exceed 300 words (excluding references) and should clearly outline the research question, methodology, and main findings. Panel proposals should be sent to t

Formal Approaches to South Asian Languages 16 (FASAL 16) will be hosted by the Linguistics Program at the University of South Carolina. FASAL reaches out to all researchers that do high-quality linguistic study of any South Asian language adopting a wide range of methodologies. We welcome submissions on under-researched and/or endangered South Asian languages in areas including, but not limited to phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, computational linguistics, psyc

We are pleased to announce that the 11th iteration of the Workshop on Turkic and Languages in Contact with Turkic (TU+) will be hosted by MIT Linguistics. The workshop will be held at MIT, Cambridge, MA, on April 11-12, 2026 in-person. The abstract submissions are now open. TU+ is an annual workshop focusing on all aspects of linguistic research on Turkic languages, as well as on languages in contact with Turkic and on languages spoken in regions where Turkic languages are spoken. TU+ showcas

Built an LLM for so many languages, but how could you evaluate it? This workshop brings together the community to answer this question through three goals: - Establish a dedicated venue for multilingual evaluation, including resources, metrics, and methodologies; - Advance and standardize evaluation practices to enhance accuracy, scalability, fairness, and cross-system comparability; - Integrate cultural and social dimensions into multilingual evaluation. Call for Papers: We invite archi

Call for papers: Exploring contemporary English(es) using the BSLVC database Thematic session at BICLCE11 Manfred Krug (University of Bamberg) manfred.krug@uni-bamberg.de Lukas Sönning (University of Bamberg) lukas.soenning@uni-bamberg.de Fabian Vetter (University of Bamberg) fabian.vetter@uni-bamberg.de In the past two decades, corpora have become a (if not the) primary source of evidence for research on contemporary English(es) (see Palacios Martínez 2020; Kortmann 2021). This is p

AbjadNLP 2026 invites submissions on all aspects of Natural Language Processing (NLP) for Arabic-script languages, including Arabic and its dialects, Perso-Arabic languages, and Ajami traditions across Africa and Asia. Building on the success of AbjadNLP 2025 at COLING, the 2026 edition will be held in Rabat, Morocco, co-located with EACL. The workshop provides a platform for research in Arabic NLP — covering Modern Standard Arabic, Classical Arabic, and dialectal varieties — while also suppo

The International Workshop on Empirical and Psycholinguistic Studies on Balkan Languages aims to bring together researchers working on psycholinguistic and other empirical, experimental, and data-driven approaches to Balkan languages. The workshop will focus on research addressing Balkan languages, their contact within the Balkan language area or their contact with other languages, their acquisition and processing. We particularly welcome submissions that involve empirical data-driven research,

This conference invites scholars to critically examine how sustainability and climate issues are communicated, contested, and enacted through discourse in diverse social, institutional, and technological contexts. We seek to explore how discourse contributes to constructing environmental problems, mobilising collective action, and framing pedagogical approaches to sustainability education. Contributions that interrogate how discursive practices may reinforce inequities, marginalise certain voice

This 3rd DIELE conference, to be held at Stellenbosch University in South Africa in 2026, follows the two successful conferences in Bangkok (2022) and Tokyo (2024). The 3rd conference is being organised by scholars from the University of York, UK, Monash University, Australia, and Stellenbosch University, South Africa. The Conference Committee cordially invites presenters from the previous conferences and new delegates to join the vibrant and welcoming DIELE community at the 2026 event. Inclu

Conference will be organized by St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatory and Vaganova Ballet Academy. The goal of the International Scientific Conference is to create a comfortable interdisciplinary platform for a fruitful broad discussion of the problems of interaction in the conditions of the modern information world of the main semiotic systems that ensure human communication — language, music and gesture. Among the topics proposed for discussion du

Le 10e Congrès Mondial de Linguistique Française (CMLF 2026) se tiendra à l’Université d’Artois (Arras) du 6 au 10 juillet 2026. Vous trouverez l’appel à communications ainsi que la plateforme pour déposer vos articles est ouverte sur le site du congrès : https://cmlf2026.sciencesconf.org/ Vous êtes cordialement invité.e.s à soumettre un article dans l’une des sessions thématiques suivantes : - Discours, pragmatique et interaction - Francophonie - Histoire du français : perspectives d

The Department of English, The Laboratory of Approaches to Discourse, The Laboratory of Language and Automatic Treatment, and The Doctoral School at the Faculty of Letters and Humanities of Sfax – Tunisia jointly organize: International Conference "Who Writes? Authorship and Authority in Transformative Times" 5-6-7 February 2026 Venue: FLSHS Between the moment of a work’s inception and the final act of its dissemination and reception, the author faces a variety of choices and consideration

Convenors: Ana Stulic (Bordeaux Montaigne University, AMERIBER-GRIAL) and Patrick Dendale (University of Antwerp, GAP) Abstracts (max 300 words, not counting the references) should be sent to ana.stulic@u-bordeaux-montaigne.fr & patrick.dendale@uantwerpen.be by 15 November 2025. This is a shortened version of the CFP. Please check the full version at: https://societaslinguistica.eu/sle2026/wp-content/uploads/sites/9/2025/10/Workshop-Turn-out-or-emergence-of-knowledge-verbs-SLE2026.pdf T

Call for Panellists The Power of Names: Naming, Renaming, and African Identity The 10th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: The State of African Studies in the 21st Century: The Lagos Studies Association @ 10 Naming is one of the most enduring acts of identity, memory, and power. Across Africa, names of people, places, and institutions bear the imprint of history, spirituality, and politics. This panel interrogates the politics of naming and renaming as cru

Call for Panellists Writing the City: Linguistic Landscapes and the Politics of Representation The 10th Annual Conference of the Lagos Studies Association Conference Theme: The State of African Studies in the 21st Century: The Lagos Studies Association @ 10 Cities are living texts, and their walls, billboards, signposts, graffiti, and digital screens constitute a dynamic archive of meaning. This panel aims to critically examine the linguistic landscapes of African cities as contested space

The First International Workshop on Linguistic Analysis for Health (HeaLing’26) will be held as a half-day workshop at EACL 2026 in Rabat, Morocco, March 24–29, 2026. Scope & Aims: Language-oriented approaches—such as discourse and conversation analysis, narrative medicine, and linguistic ethnography—have long been central to understanding how medical knowledge is produced, communicated, and experienced. Advances in NLP and AI now enable these approaches to scale across large health-related