In a world marked by overlapping crises—wars, epidemics, climate catastrophe, democratic erosion, technological acceleration, and the growing entanglement of artificial intelligence with everyday communication — vulnerability has emerged as an increasingly recognised condition. English, as a global language of culture, education, governance, and digital mediation, is deeply implicated in these processes: it both exposes subjects to new forms of precarity and offers resources for articulation, re

We are pleased to share the programme of Sinologists in Bydgoszcz: The 3rd International Conference on Chinese Languages, Literature, and Culture (SinB-2026), which will take place online via Zoom on 22–23 May 2026. This year’s conference is devoted to Chinese Language Teaching and Learning and features 25 presentations organized into thematic blocks, as well as 2 keynote lectures by distinguished specialists in the field: - Prof. Ching-lan Chang (National Taipei University of Education, Ta

We invite abstracts for papers to be presented at the annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society held in person at the University of Western Australia from 1-4 December 2026. We welcome papers on all aspects of linguistics. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, in collaboration with Ian Mongunu Gumbula Professor Norma C. Mendoza-Denton, University of California, Los Angeles Professor Peggy Mok, Chinese University of Hong Kong Please s

Jeanne Brown gave an invited talk at the 190th Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America (ASA), held May 11–15 in Philadelphia. Her talk was titled, “Rethinking ‘young women’s creak’: Piecing together production, perception, and social evidence.” The talk received media coverage in the ASA 190th press release, Ars Technica and New Scientist! Abstract: Since […]

In this newsletter: New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set CALLHOME German Second Edition CALLHOME German Lexicon Second Edition ________________________________________ New publications: MADCAT Phases 1-3 Composite Evaluation Set contains the evaluation data created by LDC for Phases 1-3 of the DARPA MADCAT program and the NIST OpenHaRT 2010 and 2013 evaluations. It consists of handwritten Arabic documents scanned at high resolution and annotated for the physical c

The first word is generally agreed to be of unknown origin and the second as either that or a compound that seems to me be folk-etymological. But I keep finding HINTS that one or the other had at some point been said by someone to be Iranian, this etymology being then dismissed as too silly to discuss--and there is never a reference to who actually said it and what exactly they said or where. If anyone could help me find any such proposals, no matter how old, I would be grateful.

Focus: Courses on offer this summer are: - Neurolinguistics (Vânia de Aguiar & Adrià Rofes) - Linking cognition to typology: Theory, methods and inference (Carmen Saldaña) - Computational Cognitive Science of Communication (Marieke Woensdregt) - Discourse Coherence (Jet Hoek) - Cognitive Modeling meets Computational Linguistics (Yevgen Matusevych) - Sign Languages (Adam Schembri) - The psycholinguistics of discourse interpretation (Vinicius Macuch Silva) - Semantics (Emar Maier) - The

Description: The University of Oxford, in association with Worcester College, is seeking to make an open-rank appointment in Sociolinguistics, with effect from 1 October 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is a joint appointment: the postholder will be appointed as an Associate Professor (or Professor) in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, and will also be appointed to a Supernumerary Fellowship of Worcester College. The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Ph

Call for Papers: The deadline for abstract submissions to the conference Language and Languages at the Crossroads of Disciplines (LLcD) has been extended to 25 May 2026. The 3rd edition of the conference `Languages and Language at the Crossroads of Disciplines (LLcD)' will take place at Aix-Marseille University from 14 to 16 December 2026 (https://llcd2026.sciencesconf.org/). The conference is organized within the CNRS Thematic Network `Language and Languages at the Crossroads of Disciplin

Dates: 30-31 October 2026 (Friday-Saturday) Hybrid Event "The posthuman predicament confronts us with a fundamental tension: "we" may well be confronting the threats and challenges of the third millennium, together, but "we" are not One, or the Same—we are differently positioned in terms of power, entitlement, and access of the very conditions that define us. "We" are not a homogeneous notion but a complex and diverse one, which reflects the multiple differences that compose "us." But it is n

Other Specialties: fieldwork; corpus analysis; experimental research; Japanese as a second language, heritage language studies, language contact, Japanese language pedagogy Description: Tsuda University, a four-year women’s liberal arts university in Tokyo, Japan, announces the following opening: Position: Associate Professor (junkyōju) or Assistant Professor (sennin kōshi) in Japanese Linguistics (with tenure) Courses to be Taught: 1) Seminars on Linguistics in the Departm

Dates: 30-31 October 2026 (Friday-Saturday) Hybrid Event "The posthuman predicament confronts us with a fundamental tension: "we" may well be confronting the threats and challenges of the third millennium, together, but "we" are not One, or the Same—we are differently positioned in terms of power, entitlement, and access of the very conditions that define us. "We" are not a homogeneous notion but a complex and diverse one, which reflects the multiple differences that compose "us." But it is n

Los invitamos a enviarnos sus resúmenes para presentaciones (20 min + 10 para preguntas) o carteles para la octava edición de FAMLi, que se celebrará en el Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatura Indígenas (CELALI) en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas del 9 al 11 de diciembre de 2026. El objetivo de FAMLi es reunir a lingüistas para compartir investigaciones sobre los idiomas Mayas contemporáneos y abordar temas nuevos y destacados en el campo. Invitamos la participación de investigad

Los invitamos a enviarnos sus resúmenes para presentaciones (20 min + 10 para preguntas) o carteles para la octava edición de FAMLi, que se celebrará en el Centro Estatal de Lenguas, Arte y Literatura Indígenas (CELALI) en San Cristóbal de las Casas, Chiapas del 9 al 11 de diciembre de 2026. El objetivo de FAMLi es reunir a lingüistas para compartir investigaciones sobre los idiomas Mayas contemporáneos y abordar temas nuevos y destacados en el campo. Invitamos la participación de investigad

RAGE-KG explores the state of the art and goes beyond in integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Graphs as well as the synergies between Large Language Models and the Linked Open Data ecosystem. We aim to foster innovative RAG architectures relying on Semantic Web standards and new approaches to make Linked Open Data usable by LLMs, enhancing their ability to generate reliable, verifiable and context-aware responses based on structured, decentralized and authoritative dat

RAGE-KG explores the state of the art and goes beyond in integrating Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) with Knowledge Graphs as well as the synergies between Large Language Models and the Linked Open Data ecosystem. We aim to foster innovative RAG architectures relying on Semantic Web standards and new approaches to make Linked Open Data usable by LLMs, enhancing their ability to generate reliable, verifiable and context-aware responses based on structured, decentralized and authoritative dat

The Language Intervention Networking seminar series showcases community practitioners working to support minority and community languages across the UK. Each seminar has a different theme, and features a panel discussion followed by time for Q&A. Organised by the School of Language, Literature, Music and Visual Culture at the University of Aberdeen, these seminars provide an opportunity for language practitioners to network and share their learning with colleagues in different language conte

Call for Papers: The organizing committee is thrilled to announce that the submission deadline for the Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale has been extended. The new deadline is May 22, 2026. The Giornate Italiane di Linguistica Sperimentale, organized by the Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comparati (DSLCC) at the Ca' Foscari University of Venice, aims to create a new forum for the discussion and dissermination of experimentla research in Italy in the fields of the

The LUHME 2026 workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of EMNLP - The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (https://2026.emnlp.org) Workshop Description: LLMs have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, due to their accessibility to the general public. Significant advances continue to be observed in fields and applications such as multimodal conversational agents, emotionally and socia

The LUHME 2026 workshop on Language Understanding in the Human-Machine Era is part of EMNLP - The 2026 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (https://2026.emnlp.org) Workshop Description: LLMs have revolutionized the development of interactional artificial intelligence (AI) systems, due to their accessibility to the general public. Significant advances continue to be observed in fields and applications such as multimodal conversational agents, emotionally and socia