The Esperantic Studies foundation (ESF) announces its 2025 competition for research fellowships in all fields of the humanities and social sciences, particularly as they relate to interlinguistics, linguistic justice, intercultural communication, Esperanto, and related phenomena. Interdisciplinary work is welcome, and primary disciplines might include, but are not limited to, linguistics, sociology, history, anthropology, communication, or media studies. Open to candidates worldwide, with a pref

We are pleased to announce the Signing Mind Seminar Series. The series features researchers whose work is relevant to the overall topic of how sign language lexicons are organized in form and meaning, with a special focus on the methodology of free/word associations. The series will include presentations on both signed language research and spoken language research that uses methodologies or analyses that can inform work on sign languages. The series will consist of around six on-line presentat

Call for Papers: International Conference – SeLTAME 2025 Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education September 16–17, 2025 | Akhaltsikhe, Georgia Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Samtskhe-Javakheti State University (Georgia), and Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University (Lithuania) and CCIIR (Georgia) are pleased to announce the sixth international conference on Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of

We are pleased to inform you that the 7th International Conference on Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) will take place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 September 2026. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Oxford, UK) Emma Moore (University of Sheffield, UK) John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria) Scott F. Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.) DiPVaC is a biennial

On September 19, a workshop intitled “Exclamatives in sign languages” will be held in Paris. The two invited speakers for are Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country) Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) A limited number of presentations will complete the program. Anyone interested in presenting ongoing research on the grammar of exclamative sentences in sign language can send an email with a maximum one-page abstract to the following address. carlo.cecchetto123@gmail.com

Call for Papers: International Conference – SeLTAME 2025 Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of Multilingual Education September 16–17, 2025 | Akhaltsikhe, Georgia Tbilisi State University (Georgia), Samtskhe-Javakheti State University (Georgia), and Institute of Foreign Languages of the Faculty of Philology, Vilnius University (Lithuania) and CCIIR (Georgia) are pleased to announce the sixth international conference on Second Language Teaching/Acquisition in the Context of

We are pleased to inform you that the 7th International Conference on Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change (DiPVaC) will take place at the University of Salzburg, Austria, from 23-25 September 2026. Confirmed plenary speakers are: Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Oxford, UK) Emma Moore (University of Sheffield, UK) John A. Bateman (University of Bremen, Germany) Gunther Kaltenböck (University of Graz, Austria) Scott F. Kiesling (University of Pittsburgh, U.S.) DiPVaC is a biennial

On September 19, a workshop intitled “Exclamatives in sign languages” will be held in Paris. The two invited speakers for are Elena Castroviejo (University of the Basque Country) Raffaella Zanuttini (Yale University) A limited number of presentations will complete the program. Anyone interested in presenting ongoing research on the grammar of exclamative sentences in sign language can send an email with a maximum one-page abstract to the following address. carlo.cecchetto123@gmail.com

We are pleased to inform you that the Comparative Niger-Congo workshop will take place on May 22nd-23rd, 2025 in Villejuif (near Paris). The program and abstracts are available at the conference website: https://niger-congo2025.sciencesconf.org. LOCATION: LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique) Campus CNRS de Villejuif 7 rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif, France TIMETABLE: Deadline for registration: May 15th 2025 Workshop: May 22nd-23rd, 2025 REGISTRATION: The works

IcoLL2026 is the joint conference of the 4th Iconicity Seminar (IcoSem) and the 15th International Symposium on Iconicity in Language and Literature (ILL). For the first time, the two international conferences on iconicity will take place together, on 21-23 February 2026 at Nagoya University (Nagoya, Japan). Invited speakers Mutsumi Imai Noburo Saji Pamela Perniss TBA Call for papers Theme: Variations and Dynamics in Iconicity We invite abstracts of any academic

We are pleased to inform you that the Comparative Niger-Congo workshop will take place on May 22nd-23rd, 2025 in Villejuif (near Paris). The program and abstracts are available at the conference website: https://niger-congo2025.sciencesconf.org. LOCATION: LLACAN (Langage, Langues et Cultures d’Afrique) Campus CNRS de Villejuif 7 rue Guy Môquet 94801 Villejuif, France TIMETABLE: Deadline for registration: May 15th 2025 Workshop: May 22nd-23rd, 2025 REGISTRATION: The works

The PhD students of the Doctoral Program in Literary and Philological Cultures at Alma Mater Studiorum - University of Bologna are pleased to announce the second edition of the Doctoral Conference of the Department of Classical Philology and Italian Studies. The conference invites participation from both PhD candidates and early-career researchers. This edition focuses on variation and change across the fields of Classical Studies, Italian Studies, Linguistics, and Book Cultures. Contributions m

Theme: Research and (Re)action The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehe

*LexiVault Workshop: Developing Annotated Corpora tools for Under-resourced Languages* Where: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus When: 10 AM – 4PM, 12–13 June 2025 Sign-up/EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGgEQZGXM2EwZF9-EASYNRQHafphNNfyU-dv1jN5c2vb0iSA/viewform?pli=1 Join us for a two day hands-on workshop exploring LexiVault, a user-friendly, open-source web tool developed by Samantha Wray, Hind Saddiki and Daisy Li as part of the SAVANT project for queryi

We invite educators, researchers, practitioners, and students to our online conference focused on critical antiracism in language teaching. This event provides a platform for participants to explore strategies for integrating antiracist pedagogies into language education, share experiences, and discuss the challenges educators and teacher educators face. Teachers play a crucial role in challenging and dismantling racist ideologies, but they must also confront their own entanglement in systems

Theme: Research and (Re)action The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehe

*LexiVault Workshop: Developing Annotated Corpora tools for Under-resourced Languages* Where: Queen Mary University of London, Mile End Campus When: 10 AM – 4PM, 12–13 June 2025 Sign-up/EOI: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfGgEQZGXM2EwZF9-EASYNRQHafphNNfyU-dv1jN5c2vb0iSA/viewform?pli=1 Join us for a two day hands-on workshop exploring LexiVault, a user-friendly, open-source web tool developed by Samantha Wray, Hind Saddiki and Daisy Li as part of the SAVANT project for queryi

We invite educators, researchers, practitioners, and students to our online conference focused on critical antiracism in language teaching. This event provides a platform for participants to explore strategies for integrating antiracist pedagogies into language education, share experiences, and discuss the challenges educators and teacher educators face. Teachers play a crucial role in challenging and dismantling racist ideologies, but they must also confront their own entanglement in systems

Autonomous University of Querétaro, National School of Anthropology and History and the Permanent Seminar of Phonological Analysis International Symposium of Indoamerican Phonology (SINFONIA I) The symposium will take place in The Autonomous University of Querétaro, México on October 23 and 24. Plenary talks by: Florian Lionnet-Princeton University Esther Herrera-El Colegio de México Francisco Arellanes-IIF, UNAM The goal of SInFonIA is to convene a gr

Call for Participation: We invite you to participate in the 36th European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI), taking place from 28 July - 8 August, 2025 at Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. https://2025.esslli.eu/ Registration: Registration for attendees is open. *The early-bird registration deadline is Saturday, 31st May.* https://2025.esslli.eu/registration/registration.html Overview: The European Summer School in Logic, Language and Information (ESSLLI