The International Symposium on Bilingualism 2027 (ISB 16) invites symposia submissions. The conference will take place June 14–18, 2027, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The symposia abstracts submission deadline is June 30, 2026. Call time span: April 8 – June 30, 2026 Symposia are 120-minute sessions with a thematically united set of related papers. Each symposium includes four slots: either four presentations or three presentations plus a discussion. For the latter option, no discussio

O VI Congresso internacional formas e fórmulas de tratamento no mundo hispânico e luso-brasileiro (CCFT6 2027) acontecerá na Faculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto (Portugal) de 22 a 24 de setembro de 2027. O objetivo deste evento é reunir investigadores de diferentes países que levam a cabo estudos sobre as formas e fórmulas de tratamento (FFT) nas variedades de português e espanhol da Europa, América, África e Ásia. As pesquisas sobre FFT devem levar em consideração as seguintes abordag

What constitutes “the truth” underpins contemporary debates and is increasingly contested and politicised. This conference steps back to reflect on the role played by “telling the truth” in literary works and non-literary discourses across historical periods, languages and cultures, with the aim of bringing a wide range of perspectives to bear on a concept of enduring importance and throwing new light on present-day tensions. Drawing on a range of analytical approaches from across linguistics, l

For centuries, linguistics focused on written language as “the norm”, and all features of language were studied based on written and often constructed artificial examples. Spoken corpora have enabled a shift in the way we view language, e.g. from a product-based to a process-based view on grammar, from an inherently-fluent view on communication to stipulating a fluency–disfluency continuum, from a verbally-centred communication to a multimodal construction of meaning. Data from speech corpora

The ATHENA R.C. team on Dialectal NLP, affiliated with the Institute for Language and Speech Processing and Archimedes, in collaboration with researchers from George Mason University, is organizing the first edition of the DialRes-LREC 2026 workshop, “Dialects in NLP: A Resource Perspective”, to be held on 16 May 2026. More information is available here: https://dialres.github.io/dialres/index.html. DialRes is co-located with the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2026) in Pal

Michigan State University is pleased to host the 56th Linguistic Symposium in Romance Languages in East Lansing, MI, May 14-16th 2026. Invited Speakers: - Andrés Saab (Universidad de Buenos Aires / Conicet) - Karen Miller (Penn State University) - Miquel Simonet (University of Arizona) - Patrícia Amaral (Indiana University) The preliminary LSRL 56 program can be found here: https://lsrl56.hcommons.org/program/

The countdown is on! For its 3rd year, the International Conference-Workshop on Language and Literature (ICWoLL) is making its offshore debut. Building on our roots at MSU-IIT, we are thrilled to partner with this year’s host: King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) – Chumphon Campus for the 2026 ICWoLL. Call for abstracts is officially open! We are looking for papers that align with the theme: “Reframing Language, Literature, and Culture for Smart and Sustainable Commun

Six years after its inaugural meeting in 2020, the second conference of the Indonesian Languages and Linguistics (InLaLi2) will take place in Yogyakarta, under the theme linguistic diversity of Indonesia. Background: The Republic of Indonesia is home to hundreds of languages. While most of them belong to the Austronesian family, a sizable number of non-Austronesian (aka “Papuan”) languages are used in the eastern part of the country, not to mention the coexistence of different sign languages

Le Colloque International LaPaC (Langues et Patrimoine Culturel), pour son édition de 2026, vise à réunir les spécialistes de linguistique amazighe pour produire un état de l’art actualisé et transformer cet état de l’art en agenda scientifique. Il a pour objectif de faire de la linguistique amazighe un champ cumulatif, outillé et internationalement comparable, capable de produire des retombées directes pour l’enseignement, la traduction et les technologies de la langue. La linguistique amazi

Forms of Context-Sensitivity 2 April 14, 2026 University of Porto, Institute of Philosophy, Via Panorâmica s/n 4150-564 Porto, Sala de Reuniões 2 https://ifilosofia.up.pt/activities/forms-context-sensitivity-2 Description: Many (if not most) expressions in natural languages are context-sensitive, at least in the sense that the same sentences comprising them, when uttered in different contexts, can intuitively have different truth values. There are many ways in which this phenomenon can co

This conference is the third of the DiLegMa series, after editions hosted in Paris in 2024 and in Bern in 2025. The conference aims to bring together descriptive/documentary linguists who engage with legacy materials on their language (or language group) of specialization. Hosted by Université Paris Cité's Histoire des théories linguistiques research group, the conference will provide opportunities for exchange with historians of linguistics, and its themes are therefore situated at the interfac

Philosophica is an analytic philosophy conference series hosted by the Institute of Philosophy at Maria Curie-Skłodowska University. The theme of this edition of the conference is words and language, engaging with philosophical work addressing the nature of expressions, meaning, and natural language more broadly construed. We invite contributions on topics like the ontology of words, word individuation, pragmatic features of expressions, meaning in natural language (metasemantics), or the rel

Langues, cultures et médias en Méditerranée et en Orients : dispositifs, pratiques et idéologies Congrès international, 8ème édition, 10-11 décembre 2026, Montpellier Pour sa 8ième édition, le congrès international Langues, cultures et médias en Méditerranée et en Orient prend comme thématique de recherche dispositifs, pratiques et idéologies. Pour rappel, les cinq précédentes éditions (2010, 2012, 2014, 2016, 2018) se sont focalisées sur les formes, les sens, les usages, les représentati

Going Romance is a European conference series dedicated to the study of Romance languages from the perspective of contemporary linguistic theory. Over the past four decades, it has established itself as a leading forum for cutting-edge theoretical research on Romance languages. The 40th edition of Going Romance will be hosted by the Institute for Language Sciences at Utrecht University (the Netherlands) from November 11–13, 2026. This anniversary edition marks a symbolic coming home, as the v

NortheastGenAI 2026 is the first workshop on AI-assisted research for Northeast India's languages, cultures, histories, and ecosystems. May 29, 2026 (Virtual, Free). We invite submissions substantially generated or assisted by AI systems (GPT, Claude, Gemini, etc.), with full disclosure of methodology. All submissions and reviews are publicly visible on OpenReview. Inspired by Agents4Science 2025 (Stanford University). Tracks: - Language, Culture and Heritage - Society, History and

We are pleased to announce the call for papers for the 25th Amsterdam Colloquium, to be held on 16-18 December 2026, at the Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC), University of Amsterdam. Submissions are now open on the journal website: https://platform.openjournals.nl/PAC/about/submissions Call Deadline: 01-Sep-2026 Meeting Description: The Amsterdam Colloquia aim to bring together linguists, philosophers, logicians, cognitive scientists and computer scientists who share an

Registration for AFLiCo10 is now open! We are pleased to offer a rich program, featuring four keynote talks by Gaëtanelle Gilquin (UCLouvain, Belgium), Geert Brône (KU Leuven, Belgium), Elisabeth Zima (University of Freiburg, Germany), and Charles Forceville (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands), as well as enjoyable social events throughout the conference. The detailed program is available at: https://aflico10.sciencesconf.org/ We encourage you to take advantage of the early bird rat

We warmly invite colleagues and researchers to the 2026 Joint ALAA–ALANZ–ALTAANZ Conference, hosted at The University of Queensland in Brisbane. Keynote speakers: - Prof Joseph Lo Bianco - Prof Rawinia Higgins - Prof Ute Knoch and Principal Fellow (Emerita) Cathie Elder - Dr Carly Steele This special joint conference marks the 50th anniversary of ALAA, bringing together scholars from Australia, Aotearoa New Zealand, Asia, and across the globe to reflect on the evolving trajectori

The 13th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 13), co-organized by the University of Bern and the University of Lausanne, will be held at the University of Lausanne from 29 June – 2 July 2026. ICLaVE is the premiere forum for research on language variation in Europe. It brings together scholars of languages and language varieties in Europe and elsewhere to discuss current empirical, methodological, and theoretical issues related to the study of language variation a

54th Poznań Linguistic Meeting Thematic Session: Managing linguistic diversity. Social factors and constraints in the transmission of multilingualism organized by Justyna Olko and Elwira Dexter-Sobkowiak (University of Warsaw)  Submission Deadline: 15-Apr-2026 The session aims to explore some of the urgent questions related to the conceptualization, study, and management of linguistic diversity in a broad cross-cultural perspective. We are particularly interested in identifying key factor