The Association of Researchers in Theoretical and Applied Linguistics will be holding its 4th annual conference entitled the “Structure, Use, and Meaning”. The conference will be held from the 21st to the 24th of September 2016, in Braşov, Romania. The purpose of the conference is to reinforce a dialogue between researchers and practitioners.… Read More
Call for Papers
Center for Language Research (CLAR) Conference, Rijeka, Croatia, June 3-5, 2016
The Center for Language Research (CLAR) at the University of Rijeka, Croatia will be holding a conference from the 3rd to the 5th of June 2016. The official theme of CLAR2016 is “Perspectives on Language Planning and Policies.”
Paper proposals on any topic related to the domain of language planning and policies are invited by the 10th of January 2016 deadline.… Read More
International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use, and Me, Brasov, Romania, September 21-24, 2016
From the 21st to the 24th of September 2016, the 4th International Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics Structure, Use, and Me (SUM2016) will be held in Brasov, Romania. The purpose of this event is to provide an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners working in the fields of theoretical and applied linguistics. Scholars working within the areas of lexicography and lexicology are encouraged to submit an abstract by the deadline on the 29th of February 2016.
10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, Manila, Philippines, June 1-3 2016
The 10th International Conference of the Asian Association for Lexicography, AsiaLex2016, has been scheduled for the 1st to the 3rd of June 2016 in Manila, Philippines. Co-organized by the University of the Philippines-Diliman Department of Linguistics (UP-Lingg), the National University (NU), and the Computing Society of the Philippines (CSP), the thematic focus of this conference is the exploration of recent research trends and practices for lexicography and corpus-building in general and in relation to Asian languages.
The deadline for the call for papers is the 15th of January 2016.
Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions DUE 11/16/15
Reminder: Emerging Scholar Award Submissions are due Monday, November 16, 2015.
Presenters for the 2016 ANS Conference who are eligible for and interested in applying for the ANS Emerging Scholar Award (ESA), should have received all pertinent information.
Please send submissions to the chair of this year’s ANS-ESA Selection Committee, Lisa Radding: raddinglisa [ @ ] gmail.com.… Read More
The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSMI) Conference, Maynooth, Ireland, April 15-18, 2016
The Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland (SNSMI) will be holding its 25th annual Spring Conference from the 15th to the 18th of April 2016 at Maynooth University, a part of the National University of Ireland. Located on the outskirts of Dublin, access to the Maynooth campus is easily accessible from the Dublin Airport. In addition to the main conference, the event organizers will also be hosting a special postgraduate workshop.
The deadline for registration is the 15th of November 2015. Researchers interested in presenting a paper on personal or place naming are asked to email their title and abstract to submissions to confsec at snsbi.org.uk.
International Conference on Cartography and Geoinformation Science (ICCGIS), Montreal, Canada, May 16-17, 2016
The 18th annual International Conference on Cartography and Geoinformation Science (ICCGIS) will be held from the 16th to the 17th of May 2016 in Montreal, Canada.
For this cross-disciplinary event, researchers interested in place names are invited to submit an abstract for possible presentation. Suggested topics of interest include toponyms on maps and GeoDB as well as the general and derivate aspects of cartography and toponymy. The deadline for paper submission is the 16th of November 2015. For more on the event, use the following link: https://www.waset.org/conference/2016/05/montreal/ICCGIS/call-for-papers
PARSEME General Meeting, Struga, Macedonia, April 7-8, 2016
PARSEME is the acronym given to a scholarly network of scientists dedicated to the investigation of parsing and multi-word expressions.
From the 7th to the 8th of April 2016, this organization will be holding its 6th General Meeting in Struga, Macedonia. Lexicography researchers and language technology experts from 30 member countries are invited to submit poster proposals by the 30th of November 2015.… Read More
Conference on Hebrew and Yiddish in Contemporary Education and Culture, Saint Petersburg, Russia, June 27-30 2016
From the 27th to the 30th of June 2016, the Department of Jewish Culture at Saint Petersburg University in Russia will be holding a conference on Hebrew and Yiddish in Contemporary Education and Culture. The aim of this 2nd international conference is to provide researchers specializing in Yiddish or Hebrew Studies a forum for sharing their findings and experience.… Read More
Conference on Taboo Humo(u)r, Barcelona, Spain, September 20-21, 2016
From the 20th to the 21st of September, 2016, the University of Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain will be holding a conference on Taboo Humo(u)r. The purpose of the conference is to investigate the intricacies of taboo in language and the intersection between culture, society, media, and humor.
Individual proposals or pre-organized panels addressing one or more of the following themes are especially welcome:
- sex and sexuality
- death and dying
- sickness
- disability and deformity
- scatology
- politics
- religion and blasphemy
- money
- violence
The deadline for proposal submission is the 15th of January, 2016.